mrvitalis: None of them can win a presidential election in Nigeria today
Is that because people like you don’t vote, not to mention donating to political parties and volunteer your time and talents to them?
Voter Turnout: Nigeria ranks world’s second worst nation – Report
Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world.
Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa.
Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections.
With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million.
The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
The new ranking
Meanwhile, the new ranking by Picodi revealed that Nigeria’s average voter turnout in the last three election cycles is 29.15 per cent, slightly lower than 21.58 per cent recorded in Haiti, which got the worst record in the ranking.
Other countries in the last five but which did better than Nigeria, according to the rankings, are Afghanistan (32.71 per cent), Egypt (32.80 per cent), Algeria (33.33 per cent) and Tunisia (35.00 per cent).
Libya has a 39.79 per cent voter turnout average, according to the ranking.
Eight of the last 10 countries in the bottom of the list are in African. The two non-African countries are Romania, with 40.92 per cent average turn out and world’s lowest record holder, Haiti.
Two junior ministers and Tinubu is the minister of petroleum, just like Buhari who he alone made president to wreck our economy, for him to continue as ebilokan last year. EOD!
Idenks: Like it or Not the suffering masses, not the government pay all these loans through Taxation
The bitter truth nobody tells you
Paying the loans through taxation so our VIPs can ride on our back in their expensive presidential jets, yachts, Escalade, SUVs, medical tourism, unpaid vacations etc.
What else can a politician ask for
[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
Ikaeniyan0: Jega election was better than the 2007 and 2003 election. You guys criticize without looking back at where we're coming from.
You've all forgotten how horrible the 2007 presidential election. An election INEC can't present the figures for each state and LG till now.
INEC had to withdraw the 2007 presidential election result after it was released because the figures were different from the one ones Maurice Iwu announced when he announced the result.
Jega held the 2011 and 2015 presidential election, they were far better than the 2007 and 2003 elections.
Nigerians voted for Jonathan in the 2011 election that was held by Jega, he had 6 years to prove himself, but Jonathan failed Nigerians so Nigerians voted him out in 2015.
Did Jonathan fail to show workings, or Tinubu plus APC succeeded to scam us with propaganda lies demonising PDP in order to install their shege promax deceptively packaged as change? Which one is it
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.
richmond500: That's not how it works. The inflation wouldn't affect any foreign investors. If I buy 10 securities at N800 per share, I will have 8000 shares, today my securities will give me liquid cash while I am not affected by the the inflation going on in Nigeria.
It's international trading. As for local investors, inflation rate has moved from 18-32% while market cap has gained 38% in one year.
What has inflation got to do with the exchange rate
MadPolitician: It is the IMF and World Bank plan working.
With your currency in taters and your middle class decimated deu to the Brettonwoods policies you swallowed line hook and sinker, any portfolio investor with little dollars, can now fly in and buy up your most lucrative shares and disappear overnight. While the foreign "fake investors" are running riot, your local businessmen are desperately trying to starsh their loot in offshore accounts, as everyone runs away from both the currency depreciations and soaring inflations.
This gives you the impression that "FDIs" are on the increase, but in actual fact, Slowly but surely, your total economic structure is being systematically hyjacked by the neo colonialists, who are now the new owners of your biggest companies, while a starry eyed government that is totally out of sort, continues to bandy around some computer generated statistics as dividends of their totally flawed economic policies.
It is not new! It is the IMF and World Bank economic terrorism formula, and these ruthless tactics, have been unleashed in many south American and Asian countries/markets with devastating effects.
What do you mean by disappear overnight? What has the IMF and WB got to do with lazy people who have long throat for things they cannot afford? When, where and how did Brettonwoods policies ask us to buy expensive SUVs, presidential jets, yachts, Escalade etc instead of investing in education, healthcare, MSMEs and massive, high end manufacturing
How do loan apps deal with those who default in our own country?
[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
muykem: You only want to criticise government. New investors are entering into the market. The truth is that Tinubu policies on subsidy removal and floating of naira have disadvantages and advantages.
If new investors are truly entering the market, why is there zero impact on the exchange rate, employment and the price of goods and services that are surging like galloping horse wey don shayo on kill me quick cheap alcohol
Squeezing the masses to surge the stock market and then dash us bread palliative in the absence of the 50 million jobs promised since last year. Same story with APC's 3 million annual jobs promised in 2015.
How do we continue falling victim to serial propagandists and liars pretending to be saviours and messiahs with integrity? What is wrong with us
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.
fuck419: When they loot our resources here and make our country ungovernable, they go to other countries to invest.
This earth will not accommodate all of you.
Curses won't do it, otherwise Western countries would not be so prosperous and attractive for our hyper-religious, mentally lazy selves who claim that oyinbos are the only ones responsible for why our LGA chairmen are not using the hundreds of millions monthly allocation to employ street sweepers paid N840,000 minimum wage. Making the politicians accountable to us, especially if they are related with us in any way, is better.
Report: How Peter Obi as Anambra governor failed to declare assets kept in tax havens
Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, kept secret assets in tax havens, a series of leaked documents has shown.
The leaked files which were retrieved from 14 offshore services firms around the world were revealed in a Pandora Papers project led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and which Premium Times is a part of.
In his response, the former governor told Premium Times: “I don’t declare what is owned with others. If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.”
In 2010, more than four years after Obi became governor, he reportedly set up his first discreet company in the British Virgin Island, and named the company Gabriella Investments Limited, after his daughter.
To set up what has now become a convoluted business structure, Obi, Premium Times reported first approached Acces International, a secrecy enabler in Monaco, France, to help him incorporate an offshore entity in one of the world’s most notorious tax havens noted for providing conduits for wealthy and privileged corrupt political elites to hide stolen cash.
According to the newspaper, Obi also paid Acces International to provide nominee directors for the company — these directors are residents of tax havens paid to sit on boards of companies to hide the identities of real owners of offshore firms.
Acces International officials, who reportedly took briefs from Obi and or his representatives, headed to the British Virgin Island where they contracted a local registered agent – Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited (Alcogal) — to set up Gabriella Investments Limited for the former governor.
Could this be another money laundering gimmick for the socialite and her politician bankrollers
EXCLUSIVE: Sanwo-Olu abandons work, secretly attends multi-billion naira party in Grenada
Mr Sanwo-Olu and other participants alternated between Calivigny Island and Silversand Grenada, an exotic five-year-old seven-star luxury resort located in Grand Anse beach.
January 24, 2024
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos returned to Nigeria Wednesday morning after spending days partying in the Caribbean Island of Grenada in commemoration of the 50th birthday anniversary of Abuja-based businesswoman and socialite, Aisha Achimugu.
Mr Sanwo-Olu flew in a private aircraft to the Carribean Island, and took residency in one of the most expensive resorts in the world.
Many officials of his government did not know his whereabouts for days, with some saying he was attending an official engagement in London and others simply telling us he was travelling abroad.
But PREMIUM TIMES can report that while the Mandilas building burned in Lagos on 21 January and many Lagosians remained overburdened by poverty and insecurity, their governor was reveling at a party at Calivigny Island, an 80-acre private and exquisite location which costs about $132,000 per night.
Thankfully they have all been replaced with Nigeria Air since 2018 when Buhari and APC revived the national airline unlike PDP that got Richard Branson's Virgin to float a national carrier involving Nigerian private sector without any expenditure from their capitalist administration.
Nigeria launches national carrier that it hopes will fly to China and India Published Wed, Jul 18 2018
Nigeria has released details of its new national carrier, Nigeria Air, which is due to be launched at the end of this year.
The Nigerian government will own no more than a 5 percent stake in the airline, which it is touting as “fully private sector led,” according to a tweet by Tolu Ogunlesi, a communications official.
Nigeria Air will begin by flying domestically in Nigeria and the broader West Africa region, aviation minister Hadi Sirika told CNBC via telephone on Wednesday. He added that the airline had looked at 81 potential destinations, including to China and India, to which it would expand routes “when the time is right.”
Sirika said that there was a “total absence of efficient air transportation” currently in Nigeria and across West Africa, and that the sector was not adequately serviced by private firms alone. He added that Nigeria Air was also designed to “provide employment for people.”
ICYMI: The N85bn fraud: How Hadi Sirika conned Nigerians
The former minister had in 2018 unveiled Nigeria Air as its new national carrier at the Farnborough Air Show in the U.K. This ceremony had raised dust as many wondered why the unveiling of Nigeria's own airline was done in another country.11 Jun 2023
Na so o. Was that not how Fashola was bleating like a goat until he was made super minister for power in the APC scamdemic change administration that we now realise is super shege promax since 2015?
Fashola to Nigerians: 'If You Want to Have Stable Electricity Supply, Vote PDP Out in 2015'
Jul 11, 2014.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, has said voting out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election is the only way the country can have stable electricity.
According to The Nation, Fashola said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.
"Yes I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity, we have to do the right thing. But you know what, the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.
” In 16 years hundreds of billions of naira have been spent and we cannot switch on electricity and in seven years we have created four plants. It shows that something is missing. So unless you vote for All Progressive Congress it is going to be difficult to have electricity.
“They started from vision 2020-20 and I told you then that they were having a nightmare, that there was no vision.
“They moved to seven point agenda and now they are transforming.”
Sharpsharp00123: d fool was alive as governor when doctors went on strike for 13 months n lecturers went on strike for 6 months but today according to his fellow obi Mumu he's d wisest
You mean this Monday Memory
anonimi: Anambra doctors call off strike after 13 months February 28, 2012
After over a year of down tools, Anambra State Government employed medical doctors have finally called of strike. According to Dr. Emma Ekwesianya, Chairman Anambra State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), the striking doctors decided to pick up tools again because of the plight of the ordinary people in the societ. “It is true, we have called off the strike. We have just signed the agreement with government about an hour ago. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) signed for the government. A technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu was set up to execute the agreement.” He confirmed.
“We decided to take the 60 per cent offered by government because of our people. Government has been rigid and we do not want to continue with the rigidity of government. We are serving the people, not government and our people are suffering.” Speaking further, Ekwesianya, revealed that a technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu had also been set up by the association to see to the implementation of the agreement with government sequel to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Peter Obi-led government on Monday.
Chief Medical Director, Anambra State University Teaching Hospital (ASUTH), Amaku, Awka, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor also confirmed the new development: “Well I’m happy to tell you that the strike has been amicably resolved, even though, like you said, it’s been a prolonged one but suffice it to say that it has been resolved and the doctors have resumed work.” “The call off was yesterday (Sunday). The doctors had some negotiations and held their congress yesterday, during which they agreed to call off the strike. So they resumed duty today. They are in their clinic. Well, I was not privy to the agreement but I will say that our representatives were satisfied with the arrangement, hence they decided to call off the strike.” He disclosed.
What heat is Fashola feeling today for the lies of a decade ago, that made APC looting possible
FashoFashola to Nigerians: 'If You Want to Have Stable Electricity Supply, Vote PDP Out in 2015'
Jul 11, 2014.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, has said voting out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election is the only way the country can have stable electricity.
According to The Nation, Fashola said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.
"Yes I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity, we have to do the right thing. But you know what, the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.
” In 16 years hundreds of billions of naira have been spent and we cannot switch on electricity and in seven years we have created four plants. It shows that something is missing. So unless you vote for All Progressive Congress it is going to be difficult to have electricity.
“They started from vision 2020-20 and I told you then that they were having a nightmare, that there was no vision.
“They moved to seven point agenda and now they are transforming.”
Ikaeniyan0: Is high time people who engage in economy sabotage are sentence to death. Even the people who buy it from the thieves should be sentence to death
Starting with the thieves who engage in economic sabotage like this APC politician
Fuel subsidy: We played politics with 2012 Occupy Nigeria – Fayemi
5th September 2023
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. / / 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. / / According to him, the last time Nigeria experienced economic development was during Jonathan’s administration
Tinubu2027Agend: So wait for the solution then. He is working and providing the solution, though painful, but the gain is surely around the corner.
You can easily mention the progress of China today, but I bet you will not mention what pain (terrible pain) China had to go through to get to where they are now.
Infact, at a time soldiers in China became farmers and factory workers to make ends meet in addition to going to war.
When next you look at advanced countries, know that they have had their own share of hard times.
We will surely get there. What is slowing us down is the corruption in the system and almost ALL our leaders are corrupt - mention one that is not corrupt (but then a saint cannot also run the country).
On Tinubu's mandate I still stand.
You can stand on Tinubu’s manhood as you wait for your own turn in the palliative queue, since ebilokan has failed to create the 50 million jobs that he promised.
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.
Seefinish: Goodnews. Fuel stations managers and attendants who used to caused us to queue for hours can now queue for for another jobs
What a narrow, selfish and myopic view of the country.
You are obviously too shallow to understand what this means for everyone in the country with increasing unemployment and worsening extreme poverty that fuels insecurity.
Baffupdrizz: The two things that I find contradictory in this statement is that he says that: 1. He was in the US illegally yet admitting that he 'came' on student visa at the same time.
2. That since he was working, that he wasn't in school. Is he trying to argue that those who are in school are not allowed by law to work?
Can anyone with more knowledge about the matter please clarify why working in this case or any case whatsoever could be seen as violation of the law?
Old people and bad mouth, Trump too was once a strip dancer for Hollywood big boys
This should motivate everyone reading this today; how bad you started in life does not determine how well you will end up in life.
Bola Tinubu was a Lagos street wandering homeless boy who got lucky to be adopted by Madam Tinubu, today he is the failed President of Nigeria, such is life
Please can I add his drugs past?
Racoon: Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.
Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.
His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.
The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993
It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.
Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.
He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’
The beggars in Lagos should calm down and fọkàn balẹ.
There must be a nearby place where Tinubu is sharing palliative bread instead of the jobs he promised to create last year.
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.
Bobloco: It shall never be well with those who worked, supported and encouraged this wicked and draconian Tinubu regime
Thunder 🔥 Tinubu
Including Pandora Bitter Obi? Or excluding him and the G5 governors who disunited PDP
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.
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