honestivo: She talking much lately, making her to talk rubbish
Was that how T-Pain talked foolishly to get his ebilokan turn to continue APC’s shege promax of Buhari?
Did he not lick the boots of northerners and throw southerners under the bus, before using Yorubalokan to get to Aso Rock on the back of naive Pandora Bitter Obi and his headless mob biafrod supporters?
Kemi is simply playing politics to get votes from those who can make her their leader. No more no less.
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
nedekid: Bros, they say he is doing well, you want make we argue with them? You argue they will call Jonathan, call Obi who has never been president say na them destroy country. Since t pain de there make we siddon look naa.. No be him be president? Since there is nothing we can do about that and we cannot go to court as they say, what do we do?
What do we do? We constantly point out his flaws and failures until he makes amends or makes way for PDP to replace him, just like he and APC replaced Jonathan with Buhari after demonising their opponents.
Omooba77: A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday, said the protest that trailed the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was due to political interests.
Fayemi said this in his keynote address delivered at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the 60th birthday celebration of the founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy and Fellow, Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Professor Udenta Udenta in Abuja.
The programme was attended by Jonathan, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, among others.
The PUNCH reports that on January 1, 2012, President Goodluck announced the removal of fuel subsidy and adjusted the pump price of petrol from N65 per litre to N141.
The decision sparked mass protests, tagged ‘Occupy Nigeria’ across major cities of the country.
The price was later re-adjusted to N97, after more than a week of protests.
Petrol price was later reduced to N87 in 2015.
Jonathan faced serious backlash for the fuel price adjustment, especially from leaders of the All Progressives Congress, who were then in different opposition parties, including the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressives Congress, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and All Progressive Grand Alliance.
nedekid: Bros move on, he is not president, we have a president Tinubu and he is doing very very well, let use focus on him to to put fisi or jara ontop of the well he is doing.
Is this how T-Pain is doing very very well
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
Eriokanmi: Tell them to turn off the server again in 2027. Enough said
Pandora Bitter Obi will tell them, after he is done defending his communist LP labourer NASS members who are jumping to APC, in the same way that he jumped to PDP after Obiano kicked his naive ass out of their regional Igbo APGA party.
[quote author=NLCreator post=126854133]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.
Journalist: how do you intend to engage members of your party who are members of the house, so that they can stand different.......?
PO: Let me start with the issue of labour party members in the house, have actually discussed this issue with them, surprisingly, I can tell you ,… pic.twitter.com/svybrcY4t3
— Senator Baruch Chinanu Boniface (@SenatorBaruch1) November 7, 2023
You love him for increasing your debt, on top of increasing your taxes and removing subsidies on fuel and foreign exchange?
Is this what it means to have Stockholm syndrome
iwaeda: A SaharaReporters' review of the Central Bank of Nigeria international payments system data has shown the country paid $3.5 billion (N5trillion) for foreign debt servicing between January and September 2024.
The data reviewed shows that debt servicing gulped $560.5 million in January, 2024.
According to exchange rate data, dollar exchanged for N909, this means that the country paid N509.511 billion in January for debt servicing .
In February, external debt servicing gulped $283.3 million, historical data shows that dollar exchanged at an average of N1402 in February.
This would mean that the country paid N397.186 billion for foreign debt servicing.
In March, the country spent $276.1 million on debt servicing, dollar to naira exchange rate stood at N1512 . This would mean that the country spent N417.463 billion on debt servicing.
Also in April, debt servicing cost stood at $215.2 million. Average exchange rate in April stood at N1225.
This would mean that in naira rate, the country paid N263.620 billion for foreign debt servicing.
In May, foreign debt servicing cost $854.365 million. Average exchange rate stood at N1424 in May. The naira conversion of the payment stands at N1.216 trillion.
In June, foreign debt servicing stood at $50.8 million. Average dollar to naira exchange rate stood at N1492. It would mean that the naira conversion stood at N75.793 billion.
In July, the country paid $542.5 million for foreign debt servicing.
The naira exchange rate of the dollar stood at an average rate of N1568 in July.
This means that the country paid N850.6 billion for foreign debt servicing.
In August, the country spent $279.954 million for external debt servicing. Dollar to naira exchange rate stood at an average of N1588 in August.
This would mean that external debt servicing cost N444.566 billion in August, 2024.
As of September 2024, external debt servicing stood at $515.8 million. The dollar to naira average exchange rate stood at N1625, this would mean that the country spent N838.175 billion on debt servicing.
In total, it would mean that in total the country spent N5 trillion on foreign debt servicing between January and September, 2024.
There have been concerns on how Nigeria spends heavily on debt servicing and its impact on development in the country.
gbaskiboy: Politically ideaology may be different but never enemies as supporters portrays them.
Can you please tell us about the political ideology of Pandora Bitter Obi and his communist LP labourers, highlighting how it is different from what pseudo progressive bullshit Sanwo Olu parrots
Eriokanmi: Does Obi represent only the ibos? What's the population of Ibos in alimosho, the most populated LGA in Nigeria where qe massively voted Obi? Dey play. Nobody us begging anyone to vote Obi. Vote your tinubu, come 2027 and we'd vote obi once again if he contests, God sparing our lives.
Now that tinubu has bundled himself into aso vila, are our people or lagosians enjoying cos he's yoruba? He doesn't reoresent the poor but himself and allies. The last time I checked, he's beginning to show his true colour after rising to stardom with our state's money by citing a federal university of agriculture in his hometown of Iragbiji osun state, instead of Ikorodu or epe in lagos. Thats a story for another day. We know better now in Lagos, where he truly belongs and he's not hiding it. I only pity the gullible amongst us.
T-Pain got into Aso Rock, with the help of naive Pandora Bitter Obi. So naive that he was chased out of his Igbo party by the Fidelity Bank boy he imposed on Anambra people.
You and your fellow headless mob ObiDense supporters are the gullible ones here.
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.
Those suffering from T-Pain’s ebilokan mismanagement of the economy cannot be opening their 32 like this, when they remember that Pandora Bitter Obi helped Tinubu to continue APC shege fraudulently sold as change of 2015.
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.
Ola9ja23: Only the fools fight over polithiefcians
They are all united in looting our common wealth
Whether you fight or not over politicians, how does that change their influence on each and every single aspect of your life, through public policies as government officials
illicit: Obi was telling them how he took PDP money and ran to LP...
😂
Really
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, on Wednesday 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.
omoredia: Cbn is selling to abokis that sell it direct at the markets
Cardi B on the beat. Maybe he will be worse than Emefiele, just like T-Pain is showing himself to be worse than clueless Buhari and his extreme poverty shege policies.
richmond500: Scarcity of cash is caused by all these POS operators
If bank put N5m in ATM, one POS operator can withdraw N400k from it and sometimes u may have like 20 POS operators that will collect average of N200k daily from that very ATM, then the rest of us will manage 1m.
They are a menace to the society
Don’t we have a president, who is the CinC for upholding the law, by punishing those who violate our laws
UltraSolid: Desperado Dullard. Nigeria is a multicultural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation that attained independence in 1960 and still divisible lacking homogeneity of progressive ideals as the tax bill reform has glaringly exposed with no individual on Earth doubting the fact the bill will never see daylight under a Northern President. Same as regionalism and other crucial administrative reforms we all know Nigeria will never make considerable progress without.
Only dull folks like you will be mentioning 'merit' up and down defying the reality of our existence that is different to that of the UK where Kemi Badenoch is now head of the UK Conservative Party and Rishi Sunak, of Indian origin, was Prime Minister of the UK recently.
If we dumbly subscribe to your idiotic and imbecilic talk, does that then not mean North will rule always and forever courtesy of their so-called superior population size? Sensible folks deal with reality and what systems can sustain.
They don't start talking of concept natural to the UK and USA that Nigeria is still 200 years behind. You have always been irritating and dullardly. Crystal clear you have no capacity to change for the better just as someone said wisely that "a fool at 40 is a fool forever". An otondo on Nairaland for 10 years is an otondo forever.
If you are not an ultra solid olodo, you should have stated your governance principles instead of rambling and ranting balablu insults because you lost the argument.
Speaking of tax reform, is your LGA getting its federal allocation directly now, several months after your southern president made a lot of noise about it? What of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road? How far
In case your olodo mind can’t process this, May is just five months away.
Bobloco: The Federal Government has assured that the ongoing construction of the first 47 kilometres of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will be ready by May 2025.
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, gave the assurance while inspecting an evacuated but now refilled section of the road that had served as a refuse dumpsite.
Umahi said that the construction company was reliable and would achieve one kilometre of concrete pavement in a day, hence the stipulated duration of the project would still be attained.
According to him, squatters along the corridors of the site will soon be dislodged for failure to comply voluntarily.
The minister said: “I am very happy with the work and people have been asking me that we say this 47 kilometre will be commissioned by May 29, and they are counting months for me, and they are counting months for Hitech.
“But I have no fear about what Hitech is doing. First, it is good quality work, the most difficult aspect of this is settlement of the sand.”
Metrofox: It's your illiterate buhari and his horde of fulani herdsmen that brought food insecurity, destroying crops in farms and raiding villages 14th century style. We didn't know about that till the vagabond came in. Atiku was nowhere to be found then, he can go become president in Niger with your people. Buhari also wrecked the economy with incompetent buffoons wearing slippers in all ministries. Though we blame the frog eye because he ganged up with them but you guys have done enough
Is Pandora Bitter Obi also frog eyed because he unwittingly ganged up with Yorubas to make ebilokan get his turn to continue APC shege fraudulently sold as change in 2015
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.
The most sophisticated people are those of the south yeast, who voted en bloc for the naive Pandora Bitter Obi in their failed attempt to make Biafrod a reality from Aso Rock.
So naive that he failed to make himself godfather to his Fidelity bank sidekick, Obiano. Instead, the governance failure chased him out of their regional party, APGA.
anonimi: 2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
wildernessVoice: They are the most intelligent and educated but the gods of Soyinka don dey adulterate their IQ and they're still future presidents (if you know, you know).
Ṣe Amadioha has adulterated Pandora Bitter Obi’s IQ, which is why he helped T-Pain to his ebilokan turn for continuing APC shege that was fraudulently promoted as change nine years ago
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.
The familiar people giving Nigeria bad name international
Helinues yarimo FreestuffsNG seunmsg
Oya o
Did the pọtọpọtọ in your head make you not see the three IPOB guys in the list of six
Is Invictus Obinwanne Okeke also Yoruba?
When are you going for redemption and healing from your tribesmen disease?
edet19892015: Unless you understand your role in society, you can never make any meaningful contribution.
According to the Greeks, they are three types of people on Earth, 1. The idiots, 2. The tribesmen, and 3. The citizens.
Studies show only 10% of Africans are citizens. The remaining 90% are either tribesmen or idiots.
1. When the Greeks used the word "Idiot", they did not use it as a curse word. Idiots are people who just don’t care. If they sit for exams, they will cheat. If they are in government they will steal.
An idiot does not care at all, if he eats bananas he throws the peels anywhere instead of putting them in a trash bin.
IDIOTS won't attend monthly neighborhood meetings. They won't pay security dues. They won't contribute to community development. Even when they see or know about something that will harm others in the community they won't report it. When they see/know/have something that will benefit their community they won't share.
In fact, Idiots don't care to register for or vote in an election, yet they complain the most. If they register to vote, IDIOTS will sell their votes for peanuts.
According to the Greeks, some societies have more idiots than tribesmen and citizens.
2. The next set of people are "Tribesmen", these are people that look at everything from the point of view of their tribe.
These are people that believe in you only if you are part of their tribe. It can be terrible to have a tribesman as a leader, he will alienate the rest.
When the Greeks talk about tribes, it’s not just about ethnicity, they also consider religion, gang membership, group membership, party membership and even cult membership as a tribe.
A great percentage of Africans are tribesmen, because they view everything from the point of view of their tribes. They trust only their tribesmen
3. The last group are "Citizens". These are people who like to do things the right way. They will respect traffic light rules even if no one is watching them.
They drive within speed limits. They respect the laws, and won’t cheat in exams. In government, they won’t steal. They are compassionate and give to others to promote their well-being.
Citizens often promote projects that benefit everyone. The Greeks called this group "The Citizens".
Some countries have more citizens than tribesmen and idiots, others have so many idiots.
A tribesman can become a citizen through orientation. And an idiot can become a citizen by training and constant enforcement of the law.
But things fall apart if you elect an idiot or tribesman to lead you if he has not been reformed.
Where do you belong? Are you an idiot, a tribesman or a citizen? Reflect on your life. Reflect about your immediate community, city, state and nation.
UltraSolid: Your a joker. Always has been and always will be. Was the PDP 2023 ticket not supposed to be for the South after the region, especially Igbos, had served the PDP loyally for over two decades since 1999?
So it is Wike, A Southerner who has every right to contest the PDP presidential slot that should exclusively and automatically be zoned to the South, who chased Obi out of PDP and not born-to-rule Fulanis who, if fair-minded, would have graciously conceded the 2023 PDP ticket to the South.
Who swung behind Tinubu in APC, when Buhari and the then APC chairman wanted to make Lawan (a Fulani man) the APC 2023 candidate, if not other Northerners who insisted it is unfair to payback Yoruba loyalty with treachery and backstabbing desperate Northern hawks in APC wanted to forge ahead with? You are a real slave of the North guy. An irredeemable one.
Are Ikwerres born to rule Rivers State, for Wike to succeed Amaechi, after eight years?
Are Ibadan people born to rule Oyo state, for Makinde to succeed Ajimobi?
If northerners are born to rule, then why did they insist that it was “unfair to payback Yoruba loyalty with treachery and backstabbing”?
If you are not a slave to your primitive tribesmen mindset, you would be focusing on governance principles and the values that you believe are the best for the country, as well as your state and local governments.
edet19892015: Unless you understand your role in society, you can never make any meaningful contribution.
According to the Greeks, they are three types of people on Earth, 1. The idiots, 2. The tribesmen, and 3. The citizens.
Studies show only 10% of Africans are citizens. The remaining 90% are either tribesmen or idiots.
1. When the Greeks used the word "Idiot", they did not use it as a curse word. Idiots are people who just don’t care. If they sit for exams, they will cheat. If they are in government they will steal.
An idiot does not care at all, if he eats bananas he throws the peels anywhere instead of putting them in a trash bin.
IDIOTS won't attend monthly neighborhood meetings. They won't pay security dues. They won't contribute to community development. Even when they see or know about something that will harm others in the community they won't report it. When they see/know/have something that will benefit their community they won't share.
In fact, Idiots don't care to register for or vote in an election, yet they complain the most. If they register to vote, IDIOTS will sell their votes for peanuts.
According to the Greeks, some societies have more idiots than tribesmen and citizens.
2. The next set of people are "Tribesmen", these are people that look at everything from the point of view of their tribe.
These are people that believe in you only if you are part of their tribe. It can be terrible to have a tribesman as a leader, he will alienate the rest.
When the Greeks talk about tribes, it’s not just about ethnicity, they also consider religion, gang membership, group membership, party membership and even cult membership as a tribe.
A great percentage of Africans are tribesmen, because they view everything from the point of view of their tribes. They trust only their tribesmen
3. The last group are "Citizens". These are people who like to do things the right way. They will respect traffic light rules even if no one is watching them.
They drive within speed limits. They respect the laws, and won’t cheat in exams. In government, they won’t steal. They are compassionate and give to others to promote their well-being.
Citizens often promote projects that benefit everyone. The Greeks called this group "The Citizens".
Some countries have more citizens than tribesmen and idiots, others have so many idiots.
A tribesman can become a citizen through orientation. And an idiot can become a citizen by training and constant enforcement of the law.
But things fall apart if you elect an idiot or tribesman to lead you if he has not been reformed.
Where do you belong? Are you an idiot, a tribesman or a citizen? Reflect on your life. Reflect about your immediate community, city, state and nation.
chrisxxx: Atiku had no right to tell South where it must be zoned to. Obi knows that owning up that he was stampede out of PDP by anyone converges to feminism. That's why only his supporters like you toe that line. Can you see northerners asking Jonathan to contest? Why so? They know that the geopolitical zone called South South still has a term. Wike wasn't wrong in gunning for that term.
Anyone who says the truth about a candidate must be in support of the candidate in your skewed view, right
Metrofox: Instead of atiku to enter 2027 let tinubu do another 8 years ,aboki una think say una wise
Aboki no wise at all. It’s Lagosians in the beggarly video below that are wise- fighting for palliative bread, in the absence of promised 50 million jobs for living wage, and suffering from poverty and hunger plus inflation.
Oya, clap for your own wisdom.
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
How can wike chased Obi out of Pdp when Obi no be goat or fowl..
If Wike chased Obi out of Pdp, how come same Obi went to beg wike for support?
Please who else is the chief culprit, apart from Wike
anonimi: 2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
SmartPolician: Ohaneze is not a political party. It's an association that represents the interests of the Igbos across the world. If Tinubu is doing something that will benefit the Igbos, it's only natural for Ohaneze to appreciate him. However, saying who they support or who they don't support at this point when we should be taking governance seriously is utterly unnecessary
What do you expect in governance that is taken seriously? What results? What parameters
Electorate: Most of you talking rubbish on nairaland ignorantly don't know the meaning of the word "patriotism" if you do you won't be defending or supporting a politician or politicians because they failed as leaders. You dont love your country to defend her from being insulted because your politicians failed you.
Even if your politicians are looters or failures you shouldn't be supporting any individual saying rubbish thing about your country of origin...that person is also insult you too as long as you are a Nigerian, why this basic fact doesn't sink into your empty skulls still amazes me?
And for that bastard named Kemi Badenoch, a useless migrant who her useless and disgraceful parents immigrated to UK decides to burn the bridges that took her to UK by fighting to stop immigrants from entering UK just to please her white masters. As if that was not enough she insults Nigeria her ancestral home at every given opportunity.
I don't like Shettima or Tinubu's government but i hate this bitch even though I am Yoruba...She disgusts me, Yes, She should change her name and erase everything linking to Nigeria as long as Nigeria stays off her dirty lips.
Useless loyal 21st century slave who enjoys ass licking her white masters.
We are all going to be here to discuss her shameful and disgraceful fall when it happens after her white masters are done using the brainless fooll.
Shameless white stooge.
Is there any more shameless white stooge than these lootocrats who steal our money to hide in Kemi's UK while asking us to be loyal? Leadership is by example, in case you forgot.
thewinning101: PANDORA PAPERS: Buhari visited Tinubu in corruption-tainted London villa acquired by Oyetola
Governor Oyetola, a relative of Mr Tinubu, may have sabotaged his own country by buying the exotic property as Nigeria made to seize it. ByNicholas IbekweandTaiwo-Hassan Adebayo October 7, 2021 in Headline Stories, Pandora Papers Reading Time: 8 mins read
It was a meeting of two of Nigeria’s most influential politicians in London – President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting political kingmaker and senior member of his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
In July, the presidency announced that Mr Buhari was heading to London for an education summit. The office also added that the president would also see his doctors for “medical check-up”.
Coincidentally, Mr Tinubu, who had travelled to London earlier, was also receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment in the British capital. So, a perfect setting for both men to meet was created.
oluxy: Hahahahahha!!! The northerners are just confused about this whole tax bill.
Go school they won't. Divided in confusion about the tax bill.
How is the north different from the south in going to school, with so much revenue that we give to our governments/they receive on our behalf yet they fail to employ teachers to educate all our children free as it was in Awolowo and UPN governors' era so many decades ago
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
Gboom: You are always full of bitterness What is your opinion on tax reforms as regards the northern part of Nigeria? If you don't have waka pass and stop displaying hatred
In your hatred for knowledge, you have equated truth for bitterness.
You better seek redemption before it is too late. Thank me later.
Obakoolex: I pray they listen to this intellectual rather than being fixated on FG Free money that turned them to a wealthy babiala
What happened to the intellectuals who hailed T-Pain's autonomy noise for LGAs? Has your own LGA been receiving its allocation directly for the past months since the announcement was made?
If you fool me once, shame on you. If you fool me twice, shame on me. If you fool me repeatedly, shame on who
OkCornel: Good… now all those illegal mining going on in the north would be captured in the tax net.
Either you tax em, or starve the indigenes whilst collecting bribes from the illegal miners.
Loot the tax proceeds and face scrutiny from your indigenes.
How much scrutiny has T-Pain and his Lagos master plan implementers faced since 1999? 25 years plus of raising IGR and receiving huge oil revenues plus loans to do absolutely nothing in line with the money
Realdeals: Jakande @ 90: 9 Achievements of Alhaji Lateef Jakande as Lagos Governor
1. The first governor to present a billion Naira state budget in Nigeria.
2. He phased out the shift system in Lagos schools in three months. He built functional classrooms to absorb those who only attend schools for three hours a day.
3. He opened up what is now known as the Lekki Corridor.
4. He built the biggest Housing estate by a state government at Abesan, along with five other estates.
5. He built LASU, LACOED, LASPOTECH and Technical schools to absorb the products of the free education policy.
6 He built General Hospitals and Health centers in all the five divisions of Lagos. He also upgraded General Hospital Ikeja to the Medical arm of LASU.
7. He created the Agric hub at Oko Oba. He also created similar hubs in Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry.
8. His government’s strict adherence to the party manifesto of Free Education, Free Health care, Rural integration and Housing for all, along with other UPN governors, created the largest pool of human resources in Nigeria.
9. He moved the Lagos State Government Secretariat from PWD to Alausa, which he built from scratch. He also lived in his personal house and drove his personal car throughout his tenure.
SeriouslySense: Every region is blessed wth resources, each region should be encolaged to look inward. And to benefit from their resources, this enhances their economy and stops laziness.
Is that why oil is owned by the people on the land, in the same way that farmers and ranchers own their agricultural land?
PulaPower: It’s not as if Ndume does not know the real truth, but he’s just being political.
Just as it was not as if Fayemi and APC did not know the real truth about fuel deregulation in 2012, but they were just being political 12 years ago, with no care in the world about our wellbeing.
Omooba77: A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday, said the protest that trailed the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was due to political interests.
Fayemi said this in his keynote address delivered at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the 60th birthday celebration of the founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy and Fellow, Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Professor Udenta Udenta in Abuja.
The programme was attended by Jonathan, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, among others.
The PUNCH reports that on January 1, 2012, President Goodluck announced the removal of fuel subsidy and adjusted the pump price of petrol from N65 per litre to N141.
The decision sparked mass protests, tagged ‘Occupy Nigeria’ across major cities of the country.
The price was later re-adjusted to N97, after more than a week of protests.
Petrol price was later reduced to N87 in 2015.
Jonathan faced serious backlash for the fuel price adjustment, especially from leaders of the All Progressives Congress, who were then in different opposition parties, including the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressives Congress, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and All Progressive Grand Alliance.
Does this remind anyone of the fake bishops T-Pain hired to validate his Mu-Mu ticket last year
GreatAxeMan: One of the fake bishops apparently hired by Bola Tinubu’s campaign for the public presentation of Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has narrated how he was paid for the appearance.
The imposter, who identified himself to Peoples Gazette as Joseph Odaudu, said Mr Tinubu’s hirelings broke a mutual agreement to be paid N100,000 for the shady job.
“They came to meet us at the car park behind Eagle Square and they promised to give me N100,000. They bought food for us and took us to another place where they gave us clothes to dress like Christian leaders and reverend fathers,” Mr Odaudu told The Gazette shortly after the event in Abuja on Wednesday. “But after we finished they only gave me N40,000 and another person said they got only N30,000. I don’t know why they changed our agreement because they said they had N100,000 for us.
“I am a Christian and I am supporting Tinubu but I hate when people lie and fail to deliver on their promises,” he added.
A spokesman for Mr Tinubu’s campaign did not immediately return a request seeking comment.
The fake bishops had appeared in a cassock to give Christian voters a false impression that Mr Tinubu’s decision to pick a Muslim northerner as his running-mate for the 2023 general election meant well for the country despite strong criticism from the Christian community and opinion leaders in the country.
The Catholic Church had described those who appeared at the event held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja as “impostors,” telling The Gazette the church had no representation at the event.
When asked if he knew that it was illegal to disguise as a Catholic bishop, Mr Odaudu insisted he didn’t break any laws.
“No law was broken we only tried to show Nigerians that Christians are solidly behind Asiwaju Tinubu,” he added.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had kicked against the choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket and registered its opposition against the ruling decision of the ruling All Progressives Congress for the 2023 election.
Also, Christian leaders in the APC had repeatedly warned that the same religion ticket would spell doom for the party, following reactions and heavy criticism from Nigerians.
Politics › Re: ‘I Don’t Believe In God Anymore’ – Kemi Badenoch by anonimi: 1:43am On Dec 16, 2024
