oz4real83: This message is coming too late, when people were playing politics against obaseki using the palace, I expected the palace to take a stand by making a pronunciation against those people, but the palace didn't. Failure to do this shows that the palace was in support of those people because those anti-obaseki people didn't do it secretly.
It was for PDP to use the video to counter APC’s propaganda and they failed to do so.
Can you people celebrate your victory alone and leave Lagos State and entire Yoruba land out of this please?
It is relevant to compare this Oba with the openly partisan Akiolu who made the genocidal threat of drowning Igbo people in the lagoon if they don’t vote for Ambode.
NgeneUkwenu: The same useless Agulu fraud called Peter Obi was the man who started Vote Buying in Nigeria.
Peter Obi a scornful idiotuthat shouldn't be allowed anywhere near political power again.
The wannabe godfather should know his place as a political destitute who was made an IDP by his Fidelity Bank boy.
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
gidgiddy: Nigerian elections is all about survival of the fittest rigger. Wholesale manipulation of the electoral process by hook or crook
It's unfortunate that that just like Obi said, people are far more interested in State capture than they are about Nigeria making progress
Which is why Nigeria us going down the drain
Pandora Bitter Obi and those who assisted him in last year's elections are the fittest riggers of the south yeast. Deal with that first instead of being a shameless hypocrite
Just as the damage Pandora Bitter Obi caused 200 million Nigerians by helping Tinubu get his ebilokan chance to continue APC shege wrapped as change, will haunt his own children forever. It will also haunt Obasanjo's children since he used Peter Obi to divide the votes of the party that made him president from prisoner when he was a bankrupt beggar.
jameshankss: Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.
The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”
Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.
But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.
The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.
Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.
“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.
“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”
Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.
Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.
He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.
“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.
“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”
Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
Is Obaseki and his predecessors not greedy? If they are not greedy, then why did they fail to provide government services and utilities from adequate numbers of workers
ObosiLandlord: It's just a little fall. Nigeria dollar bond was oversubscribed few weeks ago
Just like the little fall in dollar exchange rate that has failed to reflect in the price of goods and services? When will the little fall reach Tinubu's NGN300/USD1 short term target
Tareq1105: No, Ragolis Water belong to his uncle, late Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, a former minister of national planning.
Many thanks for the clarification. Do you know how the former wife got into so much money, to build the estates in contention? Did she inherit money like Yemi Idowu, Nathaniel Idowu's son?
How will thunder fire him inside his billions jet, Esalade and yacht, while we are choking on his congo of rice palliative? Do you know what you are talking about
hevlinotito: Is he drunk? Fuel is over 1000 per liter while the election was rigged across Edo State yeaterday.
He is not drunk. Edo people who voted his APC party and Nigerians who still support him and his party are the ones who are drunk. Drunk on Tinubu's congo of rice, his only solution to the economic crises created by his predecessor and worsened by his own Chicago rumoured master plan for looting Lagosians silly.
How & why did Obasanjo help Tinubu achieve his ebilokan turn by endorsing clueless Buhari nine years ago
citizenisb: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari may not do well in economy and foreign affairs, except in military matters.
“Buhari is not a very hot person on the economy and foreign affairs,” Obasanjo said.
The former President stated this on Monday at the third International Conference on African Development Issues — themed, “Driving inclusive and sustainable development in Africa: Models, methods and policies” — organised by Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State.
While reacting to a question posed to him by a member of the audience: “Is there any hope for Nigeria under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari?”, Obasanjo replied, “Is there any hope for Nigeria under this administration? I came back from Geneva, Switzerland a few days ago to attend a conference titled, ‘Are elections giving democracy a bad name?’ We had an election, we elected a leader and the good thing about democracy is that the power you have to elect a leader is also the power you have to remove him. I am saying this because I said earlier that if you don’t see any leader that has done well in the 56 years of Nigeria’s independence, then let us forget about Nigeria.
“I will tell you what I know and I will tell you what I don’t know. I know Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. He served under me in the military. His characteristics that I know, his behaviour that I know, he has not deviated from them. He was never a perfect man, he is not a perfect man and no leader can ever be a perfect man because they are human beings. But if you read my book, what I said about him is correct. He is not a hot person when it comes to economy. He is not a very hot person when it comes to foreign affairs. But he will do well in matters of military and he will do well in fighting Boko Haram.”
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
Menclothing1: This man wife is so rich and coded Amen estate have more that 2000 housing unit in each phase phase all belong to a woman well built and fully furnished the phase one are using 24 hrs electricity for 10yrs now Europe standard estate People have money
How did the former wife get her money? Is she an inheritor like the husband? Who are her parents
watchindelta: If apc can win edo state with all the complaints! Nigerians should just forget 2027 election. Nigerians was born to suffered and born to live to see the suffer.
Are you also born to suffer? Or what works are you doing to avoid the suffering that we are all subjected to since APC came in with shege that was fraudulently presented as change
Promismike: How then do we get things right in this country when we still allow APC to get away with rigging election even after the hardship and difficulty this useless party has made Nigeria pass through
PDP should approach the courts with irrefutable evidence.
dealslip: According to gist from the grapevine, his wife owned the business and he was the one managing it. Everything came to a halt when he impregnated someone and she threw him out of the home and business.
I thought he is an inheritor of the Ragolis Water mogul- Gbadamosi
Spandy: Was Nigeria okay before APC took over? How was Nigeria before PDP took over from the military? You lots think is the name of the party that matters instead of attacking individuals who are not doing well in the party
Nigeria was worse in PDP’s 16 years rule, hence Tinubu packaged Buhari as the messiah of change.
Is our country better now, nine years later
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
vanitybutiwanti: Mr Thread creator You fail to understand that in Nigeria regardless of the party that wins people are the beneficiaries, me personally have resolved to stop voting in Nigeria unless I am a direct beneficiary of the candidates. Only fools vote in Nigeria without getting anything in return, you want me to vote for Obi, Tinubu or Asue who will get richer after being sworn in? If you like deceive yourselves, all politicians in Nigeria are thieves, they are no saint amongst them, you blame Tinubu for buying new cars yet all governors regardless of party affiliation also bought fleet of cars. Don't put yourself on the line if you wont be a multi millionaire or billionaire if a party candidate wins.
Politics is now bring infiltrated by corporate scammers with posh English offering to do heaven on earth, a clear testament to this fact is obaseki, who wanted to foist another crisp English speaking scammer.
Only fools are selfish and myopic individuals who hypocritically want to live in a society that functions.
The type that is used in oyinbo and Asian countries to make us go there as voluntary slaves? Voluntarily unlike our brethren who we captured and sold into slavery for peanuts
Lord Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians. From his book, The Dual Mandates, come these excerpts: "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.
"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"
Guys lets discuss the thoughts of Lord Lugard. he had a supremacist view obviously. But is he right in the way he describes Nigerians and Africans in general? How many of the issues that he raises are valid?
(A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors).
During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one. The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely Unclad. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground. The Unclad chicken was staggering in pain. stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature. The poor chicken in pain started eating and stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.
Joseph stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership. He said, "This chicken represents the people". "You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them". "If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you". "They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place." Breath taking, isn't it ?
Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media. Take a look at those they call their heroes. They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is. They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments. Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's House during this Sallah period to go collect peanuts? People trooping to Bola Ahmed Tinubu Foundation offices to collect branded One kilo bag of Rice & Noddles. Did you see the number of people of all ages who troop out to welcome Ex- convict James Ibori to South South! Do you see the number of handle mop following obi as if he is a seat? what of the one following dino malaye?
Your guess is as good as mine. Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! Pass to all your contacts & let your Political & Religion Leaders read, understand & digest.
Monday Okpebolo is the closest to the people among them.
We're all illiterate in another person's field of study.
A medical doctor is an illiterate in the field of Construction Engineering.
It's all about closeness to the people.
A vulganizer will defeat a Prof in any election. While the vulganizer is well known in the community, the Prof is not known. He winds up his car windows whenever he's passing while the vulganizer eats with the people.
Is this what is making our country a basket case of deprivation? Deprivation of basic services and utilities from local, state and federal governments
Trendtips: I cannot believe People are voting APC!!!
Starvation and hunger are potent in making people do things, especially when the middle class and elites don’t participate massively in the political and governance processes.
(A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors).
During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one. The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely Unclad. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground. The Unclad chicken was staggering in pain. stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature. The poor chicken in pain started eating and stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.
Joseph stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership. He said, "This chicken represents the people". "You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them". "If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you". "They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place." Breath taking, isn't it ?
Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media. Take a look at those they call their heroes. They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is. They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments. Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's House during this Sallah period to go collect peanuts? People trooping to Bola Ahmed Tinubu Foundation offices to collect branded One kilo bag of Rice & Noddles. Did you see the number of people of all ages who troop out to welcome Ex- convict James Ibori to South South! Do you see the number of handle mop following obi as if he is a seat? what of the one following dino malaye?
Your guess is as good as mine. Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! Pass to all your contacts & let your Political & Religion Leaders read, understand & digest.
Bluntemperor: OP,thank you and God bless you for reminding us that hope is not lost in Nigeria. Some people will not come near because it's not a bad News,their way of life! Meanwhile,we looked forward to Hon Minister-of Works- Umahi,to continue giving us the latest news on the 700 -Kilometres - Super HighWays ( Lagos - Port-Hacourt). How far our Minister?
The superhighway is complete already. Meanwhile the many death trap roads across the country remain.
Opebiman: Nigeria is currently on a bumpy ride with the rising inflation figures, forex crises and fuel hikes but the country still managed to complete major projects across the country
Can you please explain how the projects will affect the price of rice, beans, corn, cassava etc
Politics / Re: Oba Of Benin Clarifies Stance On Obaseki, Cautions Oshiomole (Video) by anonimi: 6:01am
