₦airaland Forum

Kushites:
This is Abuja.

Why can't these state governors build their streets like this?

This is how a normal street looks in a sane environment.

Covered drains. Sidewalks.

It's not rocket science!

Are private estates like these two in Abuja, not having similarly standard roads, in the 36 states

Are governors completely responsible for private estate roads?

AcuraZDX:
So Estate roads are now the entire Abuja? Lmao.

All thess clowns

BATeria clowns sweating to earn their pay defending the indefensible.

Was Lagbaja right about 200 million mumus in this geographical area called Nigeria

Kushites:
This is Abuja.

Why can't these state governors build their streets like this?

This is how a normal street looks in a sane environment.

Covered drains. Sidewalks.

It's not rocket science!

Why is it rocket science to provide tap water to all FCT residents, despite Wike keeping all increased revenue to himself because Tinubu excluded him from the TSA?

Ordinary tap water unavailable but we are supposed to be celebrating roads in a few parts of the territory.

Na who swear for us

Sheuns:
Home and abroad na frustration.

The tribulation of emilokan BATeria infection no be here, walahi.

Forumites:
Successive governments always use this slogan involving “magician”. That’s not what they promised. Idiats.

With defenders online and offline who are Stockholm syndrome patients, we are on to a loooonnnnggg thing.

Suddenly the BATerians have no clue what to say about their Asiwaju who built Lagos alone into a 1st world economy that is 5th.

BeeBeeOoh:
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Friday urged lawmakers, both at the federal and state levels from the state, to work assiduously to actualise the presidential ambition of Chief Bola Tinubu.

Sanwo-Olu gave the advice in Ikeja, during the 17th Edition of the Executive/Legislative Parley, with the theme: ”Mobilizing Citizens as a Social Capital Towards 2023 General Elections, NAN reports.

He said that Tinubu had selflessly given himself to the people of Lagos during his tenure as the governor, and to Nigeria as a whole, and recorded many achievements.

”This, indeed, is the time to pay him back with our unwavering support. He is, no doubt, the right and best man for the job. He knows the issues plaguing our nation like the back of his hands and he has the magic wand to fix it.

”So, because of our Apex leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is time for us to take Lagos to Nigeria agenda. It is time for us to work assiduously and ensure that all of these successes in Lagos can be reflected in Nigeria as a whole.

”That is why I am calling on all of us to ensure that we do everything we can do politically and otherwise, to ensure that we can help to activate and actualise the next president of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

”Let us rally behind our great party, the All Progressives Congress, let us rally behind the great man that indeed, we believe can help us take our country to the next level,” he said.

The governor commended the lawmakers for efforts made at attaining the remarkable strides his administration achieved in the last two and half years.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/02/18/2023-its-time-to-pay-tinubu-back-with-our-support-sanwo-olu/

casualobserver:
Inflation is relative. When Nigerias inflation was 14-17% for example, the west had an average inflation of 2%. Now it is about 3% in the west and to them it is a big deal enough to derail their economies. For us 3% is paradise because we have never had 3% inflation in my life time and I am no spring chicken. During Nigeria’s best economic boom since 1999 our lowest inflation rate was 7.8%. Western economies will collapse if their inflation goes above 6%….it almost did when it recently got to 5% which is the battle they have been fighting for 3 years and still have not succeeded (they are still @3%). Their target is 2%. In the US inflation is 3%, car sales have fallen, house sales have fallen, basic food items have skyrocketed. And this is just 3% inflation.

They are a debt economy, we are a cash economy. In the west just 1% change in inflation can be the difference between a man losing his house and having his car repossessed. It is not so In Nigeria because we pay cash for every thing. Interest rates and inflation work differently in Nigeria and the west. So they are not like for like.

Therefore Mr wannabe Ignoramus economist, I suggest If you don’t understand economics do not comment on matters of economics just because you can pull up figures from the internet. You have to have understanding of the figures. This is not a beer parlour matter, you need to understand the meaning of the figures you are quoting and you clearly do not.

Is your ebiNpawa suffering and smiling also relative just as inflation is relative?

Since we are a cash economy, inflation is working differently as seen in the prices of goods & services in your own area, not so?

Using intelligent words to defend suffering does not take the suffering away, whether relative or real.

helinues:
Abi

Rome wasn't built in a day now

Nine years of APC failure at the federal level and 25 years of their failure in Borno plus Lagos, is this all you can come up with

Life is tough for defenders of the indefensible.

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.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/

emkz:
During the Obama-Romney debate in 2012, Romney tried to use the murder of US ambassador to Libya as a campaign issue.

Obama made a profound statement: he said we are talking about human lives here and a commander in chief cannot play politics with human lives or make it a campaign issue.

It took Peter Obi five days to react to the killing of Deborah Samuel, while Atiku deleted a tweet where he condemned it. Tinubu was not on record to have reacted.

Also, Peter Obi rushed to Kano to sympathize with the victims of the inferno in a mosque. Does Peter Obi do these things because he genuinely cares or because of political expediency? Would he have done these if he wasn't interested in running for the presidency? Was he doing it between 2014 and 2022?

Matters of kidnapping, terrorist attacks and needless deaths are serious matters bordering on national security. Instead of latching on it for political gains, a decent human being can propose solutions to help those in power. The Plateau issue is multi-faceted bordering on ethnicity, land, resources and religion. These are sensitive issues and require a multipronged approach.

No one must play politics or seek to get political advantage with it a tragedy.

PS: The government wasted 90 billion naira in Hajj subsidy for Muslims. Why does Peter Obi have no balls to condemn it if he is sincere? I vehemently condemned it here.

There is a reason why he is known as the gbajue master.

RonuFools:

With the calamity in Nigeria, the smile and face of this man dey give me joy and peace say Nigeria go better one day

The smile of a hypocrite who has failed to stop the killings in Anamdra and the other 4 states of the southeast by IPOB/ESN terrorists

How many times has he being disheartened enough to do something about the killings in his own land?

Is there any other way of knowing a hypocrite

Gerrard59:
In this particular case, black South African politicians' children study in South Africa. The rest of your post is on point anyway.

Perhaps because SA black politicians have not yet destroyed the white legacy in education. Maybe that’s because Mandela was not a power hungry politician like Mugabe.

Unfortunately, the electricity crisis in SA shows that black politicians are failing to improve on what they inherited in the sector.

ogolemati:
why won't you be happy demon possessed assholes littered everywhere

Are you opening your 32 teeth due to your shayo intoxication from Hero beer, which is what bitter Obi prioritised Anambra money as he laboured to steal his own for buying properties in Lagos and London as well as hide in Pandora

SATANICALLY:
In a 2018 interview, Peter Obi said he invested $20 million in International Breweries on behalf of Anambra state as a governor.

Obi’s claim was in response to questions on economic development, Anambra politics and his presidential ambition.

“… Anambra state is the single-highest shareholder in that facility. I invested in it, over $20 million,” Obi had said.

“It is worth almost $100 [million] today. That’s what government should do.”

TheCable had previously fact-checked some of the claims.

Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, also debunked a recent statement ascribed to him regarding the investment.

International Breweries (IB) Plc is a subsidiary of the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) — a multinational drink and brewing giant based in Leuven, Belgium.

In its 2021 audited financial statement, the company said it holds 43 percent economic interest in International Breweries Plc, a publicly listed company in Nigeria.

According to a report by The Nation, AB InBev merged its Nigerian operations under a single corporate entity in 2017. It had three indirect Nigerian subsidiaries — International Breweries Plc, Intafact Beverages Limited and Pabod Breweries Limited. SABMiller Nigeria Holdings BV — another subsidiary of AB InBev — was also a major stakeholder in Intafact and Pabod.

ANAMBRA’S INVESTMENT

In a statement made available to TheCable on Tuesday, Ifeatu Onejeme, Anambra’s commissioner of finance, confirmed that Peter Obi’s administration invested the sum of N1,955,535,247.00 (an equivalent of approximately $12,616,356.43 at the then average CBN exchange rate of N155.00/$1) in Intafact Beverages Limited, a green-field brewery set up in Onitsha by SABMiller Breweries of South Africa in 2012.

Onejeme added that the state government still holds 407,321,264 ordinary shares of International Breweries Plc in exchange for the Intafact Beverages Limited investment.

“Based on the NGX closing price of N5.50 as of 20/6/22, these shares were valued at N2,240,266,952 on that date,” the statement reads in part.

“Based on the Central Bank of Nigeria I&E exchange rate of N415.75/US$1.00 on same June 20, 2022, this investment was valued at an equivalent of approximately US$5,388,495.37 (and at N604/$1.00 parallel market rate, only US$3,709,051.24).”

https://www.thecable.ng/revealed-peter-obi-administrations-12-24m-investment-in-international-breweries-now-worth-5-38m/

kinibigdeal:
So they should kidnap them and ask for Ransom

Are they not responsible for ensuring that everyone is safe and secure in the country and state

Zooposki:
I can bet your whole life that you are too dull to graduate from Yale.

Is that dullness made so by the failure of Makinde and other politicians to do right by the people who allow them to occupy public office temporarily

Antoeni:
Evil Men

Very evil men who fail to recreate in their own areas of responsibility what makes them send their children abroad.

Is Makinde not literally seating where Awolowo and Bola Ige sat, and did wonderful works for the masses in government jobs for providing common services, facilities and utilities

Umunzeorumba:
Show me any of your businesses that is greater than Onitsha main market.What about aba market,is it your father that is doing business there.

Why is the greatness of Onitsha market failing to show up in the VAT contribution of Anambra state ahead of the other states?

No stats means it is not happening. That is to say you are telling lies.
QED!!!

Charlie2020:
You can compile that from the businesses of dot state indigenes scattered all over nigeria

The dot state indigenes who fail to develop their own region to be business-friendly should provide the stats, if they are not just doing gbajue lambas like Peter Obi.

caracas:
Olodos every where
I told you IGBOS pay the highest tax in Nigeria not south east states….
If you still don’t get it forget it….

If you fail to provide the stats, forget it.................it's just balablu town hall noise of ethnic chauvinists and bigots.

Ogbuu101:
Fulani terrorists seeking to sack indigenous populations in the Christian middel belt and take over their lands have now been baptised bandits

Where are the cows

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.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/388382-afenifere-police-speak-on-arrest-of-alleged-killers-of-fasorantis-daughter.html

rayvelez:
Yes ooo, because Africa leader are criminals that useless eleribu buhari kon worst.

Does that make drug lord ThiefNuibu worse than the worst

Ofunaofu:
In June 2022, Reno Omokri made a post on his Twitter handle, now X, accusing Tinubu of being a known drug lord. He even challenged Tinubu to take him to court if he truly was never involved in the heroin drug ring in the United States between 1991 and 1993.


It's been two years now, and Tinubu has yet to institute a court case against Reno Omokri.


Did Reno Omokri make a statement of fact?

https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1539597244244033536

WriterNig:
Now you see what Putin is fighting for. For you poor Africans but it seems y'all enjoy being in chains. In love with your captors.

For those of you always supporting the West and making excuses for them. Una eyes go peel.

You think they're gonna see you as equals or as part of them because you support them??

If you like obtain citizenship or become a CEO of a fortune 500 company as long as you don't share their genes or ancestry or skin you'll NEVER be considered a part of them.

You're going to trust the same people who enslaved your ancestors for centuries??

If they can do this to Russia, a fellow European with white skin, imagine what they'll do to you a black negro. A former slave. [/b]



They're ignorant. They'll learn the same hard lessons their ancestors learnt.

How many ICC cases against Putin are there?

Why should Africans be poorer than Russians or Western Europeans when we have all the resources and even more people and therefore more brains & hands than they have

If you are not the crown prince of ignoramuses, why don't you figure that out and make Africans as rich as Europeans?

caracas:
Highest in Nigeria
The y pay the highest tax in Nigeria

What do you gain by telling lies that are easily bursted when you are not an ObiRodent follower of Gbajue master scammer of Pandora looting

No. STATE VAT GENERATED

1 Abia 2.290b
2 Adamawa 3.689b
3 Akwa Ibom 8.39b
4 Anambra 5.938b
5 Bauchi 5.309b
6 Bayelsa 12.536b
7 Benue 1.268b
8 Borno 3.442b
9 Cross River 2.347b
10 Delta 13.964b
11 Ebonyi 7.894b
12 Edo 8.284b
13 Ekiti 6.635b
14 Enugu 5.485b
15 Gombe 4.028b
16 Imo 1.941b
17 Jigawa 3.375b
18 Kaduna 18.262b
19 Kano 24.492b
20 Kastina 3.738b
21 Kebbi 1.284b
22 Kogi 3.286b
23 Kwara 3.471b
24 Lagos 429.203 b
25 Nassarawa 2.495b
26 Niger 3.723b
27 Ogun 11.823b
28 Ondo 4.554b
29 Osun 1.995b
30 Oyo 64.646b
31 Plateau 5.208b
32 Rivers 90.293b
33 Sokoto 4.978b
34 Taraba 1.756b
35 Yobe 9.445b
36 Zamfara 598.133m
37 FCT 235.794bn

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/vat-what-states-generated-received-in-past-8-months/

NoniblaqStore:
Naija to the world. Anyway, if you reside in Abuja and you wear vintage shirts see my topic now, I have something huge for you

Since when did a tree make a forest?

If Naija is to the world, then why is our currency so weak, reflecting our impoverished status and very lazy lifestyle

christejames:
Congratulations to the precocious angel, more and higher wins to you dear...

The dot Nation keep proving them wrong, they've since left them behind after the war!

Please what is the VAT contribution to the federation account from the dot nation to show that it has left anyone behind in this extreme poverty capital of the world called Nigeria

Yankee101:
It’s madness
The government increased its allocations by that amount but are denying workers minimum wage that’s reasonable

Even businesses are charging very high in the name of of exchange rate but still paying 50k salaries or less

Once the minimum wage is increased demand for more wages from the private sector too because prices will go up. If not it’s better and more profitable to farm

If what you are proposing is not madness, then explain how you will stop politicians from increasing their own salaries, allowances and benefits, even plus the ObiRodents in communist labourers' camp LP?

The Gbajue master of Pandora looting scamming people since 1914.

[quote author=NLCreator post=126854133]eter 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.

https://www.thecable.ng/theyre-for-official-use-obi-defends-purchase-of-n160m-suv-for-lawmakers/amp


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 , I heard that this vehicles are official cars, and are they normally, it is, they have to use it, is meant for official vehicle, so is not as if it is their vehicle, that is meant for official car and everything, because we campaigned for it, and said listen, if it is your car, you return it, or d.... But they said is official car and everybody is meant to uuu, you're meant to use it while you're in the senate, but you know how things work here, it's not going to be like that.

End of interview

I didn't make this up, take a listen

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

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helinues:
Ac no be for poor man

Just as sense no be for BuhariDeen and BATist supporters of A-looter Poverty Congress, APC

iwaeda:
How can he collect money from Dasuki on November 28, 2015. Either the date is wrong or the man went to St Paul, Arooloya in 1949.

It may also be a story to divert attention from the pains of ThiefNuibu's reckless looting of our commonwealth as he is doing in Lagos since 1999.

Sannisege:
E no go better for PDP under Jonathan.

Will it be better for the incorruptible PTF a-looter comrade of Abacha who denied looting by his boss even after Obasanjo had recovered billions of dollars in loot from Swiss and other banks? Does it not strike you as odd that Obasanjo would endorse a thief like Buhari to replace Jonathan?

How much of your own time and money have you ever contributed to a political party or campaign? If you have never contributed, does that not make you an accomplice for aiding and abetting the part of corruption used to fund political activities in the absence of contributions from educated people like you

Here is a picture that alarmed the USA authorities from a 2019 rally. The picture shows:
-President Major General Buhari(Rtd),
-Governor Bagudu
-Attorney General Malumi.

The Department of Justice said in a February 3 statement that Bagudu, 58, was part of a network controlled by Abacha that “embezzled, misappropriated and extorted billions from the government of Nigeria.”

After Bagudu successfully sued Nigeria for violating the 2003 settlement, Buhari’s administration reached a new agreement with him in October 2018, according to the court filings.

That would result in the transfer of ownership of the investment portfolios, worth $155m to the Nigerian state, which would then pay 98.5 million euros to Bagudu and his affiliates, according to Bates’ December 23 opinion.

Gerrard59:
The areas abut to the River Nile and Mediterranean Ocean are the most populous in Egypt and the wider Middle East. Nigeria is the only country in the world where there are more people in arid regions than in coastal areas.

But hey, you love APC and Buhari. So, it is expected you don't have sense.

You really mean these BuhariDeen and BATist zonebee followers of APC

Do you think that ObiDeens are at the same level of idiocy or slightly lower or higher

Gerrard59:
The 2023 presidential election is less than seven months away. There are three contenders, even though Peter Obi happens to be largely a pretender in my opinion. Tinubu has chosen Shettima to be his VP candidate, Atiku chose Okowa and Peter chose Yusuf. However, of the trio, Tinubu’s choice is the most controversial as it is a Muslim-Muslim ticket, which is very insensitive to the 100M+ Christian populace. To be honest, this choice increases Tinubu’s probability amongst the Muslim community in Nigeria, especially in the north-west and north-east. This brings me to the topic: Peter Obi cannot win in those regions as they will not vote for a Christian when there are two alternatives where Muslims hold sway. In the north-west, Tinubu has a greater probability of winning there as his combination resonates with the populace. Kwankwaso has said he has no problems with the choice he made but with his platform. This means when push comes to shove, he will step down for Tinubu so that BAT’s chances of winning Kano with a wide margin come to fruition. In the north-east where Shettima and Atiku come from, Peter Obi’s odds further decline as indigenes there will rather their sons than someone else.

In the south-west, Tinubu is expected to win. Don’t allow anyone to deceive you that Tinubu will lose his backyard. Yorubas don’t involve religion during elections as they are roughly divided across three religions amidst themselves. Tinubu is seen as a God figure and when the chips are down, the vast majority will tilt towards voting for the APC. However, there exists a section of Yoruba voters especially the Christians who might not/will not vote for the APC or alternatively abstain from voting due to the insensitivity of Tinubu’s choice considering the wanton killings the Christian community has experienced in Nigeria within the last seven years. The massacre in the Catholic Church at Owo rings a bell. To these people, alternatives exist in Atiku and Peter but here is it: due to what I cannot describe as the rivalry between Igbos and Yorubas, the vast majority of these Yoruba Christians will not vote for an Igbo man. They will/might be shamed, mocked at or derided or whatever, but they won’t vote for Peter Obi and/or rather cast their votes for Atiku. On the other hand, Yoruba Muslims will never vote for an Igbo man, certainly not when an illustrious son of theirs has a strong likelihood of becoming the president.

In the north-central, Tinubu’s prospects are pretty significant as people, especially the Muslims in Kwara will vote for him. The same thing in Nasarrawa, Kogi, and Niger especially as the vast majority of people in IDP camps are Christians. Benue, for instance, has one of the highest concentrations of IDPs thereby making them unqualified to vote. His chances in Plateau and Benue are very low but APC’s structures there can deliver the minimum requirement of 25% to scale through. In the south-south and south-east, Tinubu’s chances are extremely low considering he never campaigned in the south-east and only campaigned in Delta and Cross River states in the south-south during the APC presidential primaries. Effectively, he believes he won’t win in those regions, and rightfully so. In fact, I predict that Tinubu will not campaign during the campaign season in any of the south-eastern states and only in Cross River considering the influence of Okowa in Delta. He might substitute Delta with Akwa Ibom but that is it, just two states in the south-south and none in the south-east. The south-south and south-east together are home to the vast majority of Christians in Nigeria. They will not be receptive to a Muslim-Muslim presidency.

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.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/

Millimann:
I see erosion.

I thought it's only in the southeast they encounter erosion according to the sophisticated morons.

WorldRichest:
Non sophisticated slowpoke, why did you drop out of Primary School, and jumped into Mallam Audu's trailer carrying Cows from Bornu through Igboland to Lagos to come and sell Gala and La Casera inside Lagos, Ogun and Oyo hold-ups and sleep under Lagos, Ogun and Oyo bridges?

What is the gain of two impotent men competing over the length of their useless tool

carammel:
I may derail a bit on this which may be contrary to all the OP wrote.
In my own opinion,poverty is the problem with family planning in Nigeria. I was at a counselling center last week to and after all talk and bla,i was told to pay 2600naira for implano,1000naira for pregnancy test and 1600 for the drug,i may be able to afford it but can another woman who can hardly feed 2square meal afford that?
The UN claimed,family planning would check poverty,that is when there are less children,there would be more to go round everyone. I think they should make it free or highly subsidized so everyone mostly the targets "the poor",can afford it and be ready to go for it.

Let me follow your lead to 'derail' a bit also

It is not that family planning will check poverty per se but rather reducing poverty through jobs that keep everyone busy to earn a living in dignity, will engender family planning naturally.

That is why industrialised societies invariably have reduced birth rates, be it China, India, Japan, Korea and European countries.

Zool6:
I have done it with someone from south west before here he ran away I cant start listing Competition Anambra been wining between 2023/2024 just type it on nairaland

After that come and compare Anambra to Ogun in global winning I m Telling u Anambra have more School winning than all South west put together not just Ogun

Does Anambra have more public schools for its population size?
Does it have more teachers to students in public schools?
Did Gbajue Peter Obi achieve 100% enrollment of children in public schools during his 8 years of investing government money in family owned brewery

2elliot:
Obi not only supported public schools, but he equally gave to private schools. Go and verify.

There is nothing to verify if you fail to provide the statistics on your claim.