omowolewa: Okay, when you get there, make a change
Make a change like the type below
Saint Obi belongs in Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Crooks, APC filled with sinless redeemed politicians.
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
Naijahero1: Every political party has its own challenges but Dickson should stop creating a challenge for himself. It's wrong to begin to believe that the movements Obi and Kwankwaso have built will all disappear overnight because of NDC and all begin to praise Dickson they don't "know". It won't happen. If we join your party, we don't join because of Dickson, we join because of Obi Kwankwaso. Respect boundaries sir. You can't begin to say anyone including you can contest at this moment you should focus on managing your visitors not bloated by ego. Of course, nobody is stopping you but you should be grateful your platform is being used. Stop forcing people to respect you, earn it through character and words. You're Dickson, not Obi or Kwankwaso. Movements/ ideologies are bigger and stronger than a political party. Let's keep pride apart and save Nigeria from APC goons. God bless you, sir.
Clueless tenants who don’t respect their own boundaries are wailing and screaming at the landlord to respect their own boundary as tenants.
It’s only a matter of time before the tenants are back on the streets homeless like internally displaced politicians, IDPs.
This was how Obiano kicked out Obi from their regional party APGA in 2014. Thankfully he was rescued five years later by Atiku.
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.
Gerrard59: The same happens to many Nigerians in Nigeria.
How can you say that the same happens in Nigeria when our taxes are not employing well paid civil servants to provide government services and public utilities like:
- water and electricity supply, - law and order with security, - free education for all children - free basic healthcare for all residents - good roads with covered drains that are cleaned regularly - nice parks and green spaces - comfortable and reliable public transport
franchasng: They rejected individuals contesting on their own as independent candidate without a political party....it was rejected mostly because of Peter Obi.
Obi and allies tried registering a party....they used INEC to frustrate the effort and various attempts.....you guys don't seem to understand the level of brutal dictator Nigeria is under right now....make those supporting the failure continue....their eyes will open by the time he bulldozes his way to Aso Rock for a second tenure.....I pity Northerners the most....they think they will revenge after 2031 which they are ignorantly believing will be their turn to revenge on Southwest for what Tinubu is doing today....they will wait forever because if Tinubu succeeds in rigging his way for a second tenure, the next President after him will be as useless as the "p" in psychology, please bookmark this comment today.
The 109 senators and 360 representatives who rejected independent candidates include the ones who you sent to Abuja, right?
How is Obi connected with the ADA party that Amupitan’s INEC refused to register
The master strategist did well to earn his own turn in 2015 by making Buhari president, straight out of retirement in Kaduna, thereby ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and stability that Obasanjo and Atiku laid down the foundations in 1999.
Why was Tinubu so selfish, greedy and wicked to the point of making Jonathan a one term president and making 200 million Nigerians endure APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege, which he fraudulently promoted as positive change 11 years ago
Igbophobia: That's Obi's business whether he steps up or down. What I'm saying is that not Nigerian should be stewpid enough to vote a Fulani. Tinubu doesn't need Obi stepping down anyway. he can 'win' the way he did in 2023 and complete south (Yoruba) presidency the way you all shouted in 2014 that it was the turn of the north. In any case no one cares
Why would Obi/ Igbo people want just one term to complete south presidency, which would be 17 years against the north’s 11 years out of our 28 years of continuous democracy next year?
Tinubu is the one who led the shouting in 2014 for the old Fulani soldier he begged to come out of retirement and make Jonathan a one term president.
ngmgeek: It's no longer going to be business as usual in Nigeria. Bulaba will learn that hard lesson in 2027, believe it or not.
There is no hard lesson to be learned by the master strategist next year.
Obi has been caged by Kwankwaso and Utomi in Dickson’s NDC. The owner of the party and his northern friend are both fighting to grab their own turn in 2031, if Tinubu fails to get his 3rd term agenda like Obasanjo failed to get his own in 2007.
Meanwhile APC Twitter sympathiser Amupitan’s INEC is working hand in glove with Wike’s courts to keep Atiku and ADC out of the ballot, just like they refused to register ADA party, but they registered Dickson’s NDC as a mere decoy to use as Obi’s SPV platform to facilitate Tinubu’s 2027 reelection strategy.
So how can the Lagos magician learn any lesson, whether hard or soft, next year? How will he learn anything
iwaeda: Wike Boasts Of Helping APC Use Judiciary To Kill Osun LG Funds Case, Warns Party Leaders Against Ingratitude
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has openly boasted that he assisted certain elements within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in deploying the judiciary to frustrate the Osun State local government allocation lawsuit.
In a video now circulating widely on social media and obtained by SaharaReporters, Wike made the claim while addressing a crowd in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The former Rivers governor accused the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, of benefitting from judicial actions against the Osun State Government without knowing those who did the work behind the scenes.
The suit in question led to the withholding of local government funds in Osun State, a development widely seen as targeting the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke as opposition in the state.
Wike, who spoke angrily, suggested that the court action supporting the APC’s position against the Osun government did not happen by chance, boasting that powerful political forces worked quietly to ensure the outcome.
“Don’t take our support for Mr President for granted,” Wike warned, in an apparent message to APC leaders defending Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara. “You have to be careful about the statements you make. You have to be very careful.”
He accused Basiru of political ingratitude, claiming the APC was enjoying in Osun State without understanding who engineered their advantage.
“Today, you are enjoying in Osun. You don’t know those who did the work,” Wike said. “You are opening your mouth to talk about Rivers State.”
What is your motivation for choosing to be politically illiterate
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
HacheNoire: A good initiative coming from His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)
With demanded tax compliance, we are bound to experience a boom in our infrastructure and economy.
If increased tax burden on Lagosians for 27 years gave 100 times budget growth without water supply to all households then why would a sensible person expect Tinubu to stop stealing federal taxes now
erniok: The dollar terms are there too. Fact is APC had borrowed far m9re than PDP did.
Is that the change that Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC promised us when Tinubu went to Kaduna and begged Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president in 2015, so he could have his own turn eight years later
Africana1123: Theo is more APC than some APC members Self
Peter obi will learn politics by force
Kwakwanso was doing meeting with Tinubu everyday and you never see anywhere the man condemn Tinubu publicly, you still pick him as your vice
Why is that is only NDC INEC approved as new political party in Nigeria
You are a very wise man with questions to trigger sensible people into better conclusions. Remain blessed sir.
Shebi Atiku tried to register ADA but was refused.
Tinubu is not called Jagaban master strategist for nothing. If he can hold Lagosians in Stockholm syndrome bondage for 27 years, who are Nigerians that he can't hold all of us in his green-eyed selfish and greedy fingers
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
Lordhanzo: We don’t want you. It seems Dickson wants to try Obedients. He will learn.
Imagine appointing this fools that has in times past abused and insulted Obedients. Now anting to be our mouth piece. You will find us locking horns. Check out antecedents. We nor dey look anybody face.
What will a landlord learn from korofo, empty barrel noisy tenants?
fergie001: I began supporting the NDC from the very moment our National Leader conceived the vision of an ideologically driven political party.
I was a foundational member who actively mobilised support and contributed to building the party from its inception, long before it gained national prominence through the influx of other leaders and their supporters.
Everyone is just throwing words around like balablu bulaba bandits.
What is NDC's ideology and how is it different from that of PDP where Dickson's political career was nurtured
Cutezt: “Tinubu made election promises on certain assumptions. But getting into office, you are faced with the truth. When you are in opposition, there are certain promises you make, and by the time you get into office, you will see that certain promises cannot be fulfilled.”
How was Tinubu in opposition before he got his own turn at worsening APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege three years ago?
Who do these APC balablu bulaba propagandist liars take us for
Rich4god: Are the senators incharge of security their constituency. Are they the ones that appoint service cheifs of the nations. Sometimes, thing well before you talk.
Service chiefs are cleared by the NASS after nomination by the president, not so?
Can the president spend any amount of money not approved by the NASS in the budget?
Your last sentence applies to you mostly, with your arrogance in ignorance.
Sensiblerealist: [s]Nigerian government is systematically undertaking population control enforcement without the people knowing. Apart from illiterates, mostly in the northern region but not exclusive who don't care, learned people that want to maintain a semblance of mid level families don check their reproduction rate these days. [/s]
At least born max of 3 so that dem go fit manage to send them go average schools.
[s]Nothing like I love children, I wan born 6 or 5 again. The politicians don recalibrate us and dem fit born 20 if dem want. The day I met one northerner in Dubai scouting for Universities for 3 of his children, I just weak. This guy already don see 4 or currently seeking through foreign universities as at then. Make I shock you, the guy Na civil servant, I think a director in Kaduna State. Naija which way[/s]
One of the ways for Naija, is to see sensible realists advocate for LGA councillors and chairmen as well as state lawmakers and governors to prioritise our commonwealth for employing adequate number of well paid teachers to educate every child free.
A situation where Lagos has less than 5% government schools after 100 times budget growth since 1999 under progressive Tinubu's master plan strategy is wicked. This is despite Obasanjo/Atiku administration's UBEC for matching federal funds to help LGAs and states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all children.
EmmyMaestro: “Since I came to America, I no longer pray for 10 minutes, 20 minutes. What am I praying for? The things that I used to pray back home in Africa for God to provide for me, I came to Yankee and saw that the government and the system have already provided those things for people.”
According to him, many Africans have been conditioned to pray for basic necessities because governments have failed to provide opportunities and essential services for citizens.
Did he discover how God came down in America to establish their government and system, while staying on till today to maintain and improve it for the people?
Rich4god: Every sane nigeria need to act and shake this govt. This is not about tinubu or apc. This is about nigeria.
If you are responsible to secure the nation, then do it. If you cant secure the nation as a leader, then give way for someone who can. Its that simple.
Do you consider your own senator and representative as part of the federal government
RichDad1: Hypocrisy. You're wearing such jacket and opening teeth because you're happy about it. Anyways, we all know it's all political than genuine empathy for the abducted citizens.
Was that how Tinubu's BBOG was all political than genuine empathy for Chibok girls, as part of his efforts to make Buhari president?
Paradoxically, Atiku did not carry placards but he did something more meaningful for the escaped Chibok girls- gave them free education.
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
CodeTemplar: What the useless APC FG doing about it?
Cluelessly incompetent Tinubu is waiting for guidance from El Rufai, the guy who bailed him out in London when he did not know the answer to insecurity questions.
Why do you think that Tinubu failed to ask ask his ACN 2011 candidate Ribadu, who was also part of his 2023 campaign team, to answer the questions
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
cuteboy2: I believe he is seriously being considered for an "assignment" by the BATist-Buhari grab-steal-and-run movement. They love unprincipled characters like him.
How is he more unprincipled than Utomi, who delivered on his assignment in 2023?
The unstable character was ADC's first presidential candidate 19 year ago, after Atiku led other democrats to kill the bill for Obasanjo's 3rd term in NASS, despite Ghana must go bags of bribe.
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
cuteboy2: Kenneth Okonkwo dancing for a pay master that is willing to dole our the dollars (Atiku Abubakar). The pay master just ignores his joyous display and strolls along.
Was that how Atiku was Obi's paymaster in 2019, when he rescued him from political wilderness after Obiano kicked him out of APGA five years earlier
Do you have any idea of how many dollars Obi received back then as Atiku's running mate?
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.
Kaczynski: I used to break things and dismantle them. Everything from our tele to the fridge all broken down and opened. Once i tinker with a microwave and it was not looking funny. Nearly blew the house to shreds. I was this close to reinventing whatever happened in Ukraine during the 90s.
On seeing that my dad went full blown angry tom and my mom being the cool hipster calmed the werey down and probably dished some pomsy on the side. Man chilled and cautioned me never to do such, instead got me a commodore pet to kerp me busy. By the time i was a teen, i already know intel manual by hand and could memorise the hexadevimal.
Why did you feel a need to write the highlighted part? Would you want your own child to do something similar
Breaker001: What I would deduce from your response is either you are no residing in Nigeria, or that you are a politician yourself.
I agree with you that western democracies have ideologies that unite them within their political parties such that no matter what they individual differences are, they will eventually find a common ground to deliver based on what their, as it can be commonly seen in the Democrats and the Republicans.
But if you will be sincere on this issue, the same cannot be said about a typical Nigerian politician. Otherwise, what would you say about someone who while he was in the opposition, such a man was shouting about upholding democratic institutions, yet the same person (now in power) is doing the exact opposite of what he was clamouring for.
You also made mention of contributing to the "political and governance processes" and I quote you, "...How much of your own money, time and talents do you contribute to the political and governance processes.". Excuse me! Are you kidding me? Are you not aware the an average Nigerian politician is NOT accountable to the populace? And that votes do not count in this part of the world? Even those politicians who gave money to others to win hoping to recoup their monies always end up regretting?
Like I said earlier, I want to believe you are not residing in this country, or you are a "Nigerian politician" 😎
What interest do you have in making sure that our country remains as it is now, politically and in terms of governance, instead of advancing towards how developed democracies are
bolaayenimo: Which yeye NDC sef? I no blame you.I blame Peter Obi that is jumping about like a headless chicken
Peter Obi is indeed a headless chochocho hypocrite, just like his supporters and their misplaced entitlement mindset.
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
bennybuhari: “’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.
“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.
“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.
PlasmaTV: Everybody sha wants to mention Obi's name. The father that fathered their father. Okwute 1.
Are you talking about this naive politician who wanted to be Anambra godfather, master plan strategist but failed woefully in 2014?
Did Obiano not kick him out of APGA before Atiku rescued him from political wilderness, five years later
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.
obeegee: I have been on a commercial flight with him in December 2025. Delta between USA and Lagos when he came for an appearance in Lagos during Detty december
Quite an interesting testimony about being on the same flight in economy with him.
You seem to know quite a bit about airplanes.
Any update about the presidential jet that was put up for sale, as reported in your OP below
obeegee: So I noticed this link with our presidential jet being put up for sale. Same jet we were told was not serviceable.
Now the part that caught my attention was the number of Hours and number of cycles the jet was advertised to have. I did some research to see how many hours and cycles similar aircraft could fly in its lifespan. The manufacturer, Boeing puts its lifespan at 55000 hours or 90000 cycles. Our jet had 3821 hours and 1881 cycles. Which means, the jet is almost like brand new by the manufacturer's standards.
This only shows that the excuse of the aircraft being old and not serviceable was untrue.
The new presidential aircraft purchased is far bigger than this one and has a much higher operating cost. The former aircraft 737 bbj has an hourly operating cost of $6,000 while the new one acj a330 has an hourly operating cost of $29,700. Evidence attached below.
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