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Tellwhat:
I was watching it live. When he said that e shock me and I knew he bleeped up right there
I guess it was an error. He should take it easy with all the statistics and dropping numbers here and there

He's still the best choice though

Best choice for looting us into Pandora, as he did with Anambra money?
Or best choice for what please

[quote author=wwwihy post=115100689]- Peter Obi

Video:

Our Social media Leading Candidate Peter Obi Gave Us A Fact That Out Of The 150 NBA players in USA 100 are Nigerians

Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm opoorrrrr o pic.twitter.com/mC7FO2hBXu

— Alabi Opeyemi Oladimeji (@alabiopeyemiola) July 26, 2022

https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1551873410627772416?t=9PmowEd30rIMO8IP8vOa2g&s=19

Verdict: Peter Obi lied[/quote]He lied as usual.
Why is this Pandora fraud such a compulsive liar

NaijaRoyalty:
This is just the begining to wailing to all APC people

Osun already in the bag

It took a lot of work on the minds of the people to demystify that rogue, Thiefnuibu for the Osun victory.
It will take a lot more work for the APC wailing to last until after the 2023 elections.

otipoju:
Stupid man . You adopted a full grown adult who is capable of bearing children.

Very stewpid I tell ya.
Is it not the same Ogun state where the few children in public schools are learning in horrible conditions

Elidrisy20:
Old age, grandpa go take pami abeg

He really needs it to clear his eyes for seeing how much of a scam Peter Obi is, just as Bubu was in 2015.
Na why we go make the same mistake twice

TolaniLuv:
Lagos is a State not city’ again Lagos is the highest state in Nigeria with highest GDP .

Tell me a state in Nigeria that is most populous? There must be a reason for that. Don’t ever in your life disrespect Lagos and Yoruba ever in life .

Lagos is like New York and London to many village people here.

Omo ti ko ba de oko elo mi ri a so wipe oko baba ohun ni o to bi ju.
What Omoluabi person benchmarks himself to the worst examples to make progress in life? Is that how you do personally

Whobedatte:
Did she not win the world record for Nigeria ? What do you mean by 'oyinbo trained ' athlete
She put Nigeria on a world record in athletics and that's all that matters

I hope that this is helpful.

Exclusive focus on diaspora success is escapism

David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022

I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

FreeStuffsNG:
Above is the track record of a serious contender for the office of a nation's President.
Presidency is for serious minded focused individuals not social media players and overseas students.

More like the track record of a serious looter who knows how to sweet talk himself out of troublesome inquisitions.
Did he build a light rail in his eight years as governor, unlike clueless Jonathan who built two railways in his five years. The light rail that is a revival of the Lagos metro cancelled by Bubu in 1984?

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

Metrix147:
.........says the nation must move away from consumption to production

Source: https://abntv.com.ng/news/2023-politicians-must-use-public-offices-serve-people-suffer-peter-obi-urges-photos-video/

What do we call people whose performance record is at variance with what they say?
Liars, hypocrites or what

GodsOwnMan:
Thank you Niger Delta. E remain Northerners and Ibos.

Tribesmen parole that ensure we stay in the gutters for long as we celebrate our own personal rogues in the local, state and federal government legislative and executive arms

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.

Last year, Nigeria overtook India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, thereby becoming the world capital of poverty, according to the Brookings Institute. This year, the number has risen to 91.6 million from 87 million in June 2018. Every minute, six Nigerians enter the group of extremely poor people, according to the World Poverty Clock.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

Whobedatte:
I feel emotional watching her sing the national anthem.
Nigeria will be great again

Just by an oyinbo-trained athlete singing the national anthem?
Please are you for real
Abi e get works you dey do to make Nigeria great again, starting with having your PVC and sharing your vision of how your local, state and federal governments should be run with many other people?

TOPCRUISE:
Nigerians are good in athletics

Why do we need to be trained by oyinbos to bring out the potentials now?
Do you know

GodsOwnMan:
Yoruba people eh na dem dey carry this country o! Lets be honest and the rest of us should catch up!

So why is the major Yoruba city a shithole of global reject for scumbags despite the rich legacy of Awolowo and Jakande
Why did we allow a rogue like Thiefnuibu to hold us hostage for over two decades of looting recklessly?

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.

The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.

“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.

https://punchng.com/cholera-outbreak-looms-in-lagos-communities-as-residents-use-canal-lagoon-as-toilet/

mema900:
Who will fool you? Tinubu or atiku?

Is Atiku or Tinubu pretending to be a stingy saint?

BeeBeeOoh:
Obi urged Nigerian politicians to use public funds for social development.

https://www.pulse.ng/news/politics/im-not-stingy-i-use-public-money-for-public-good-peter-obi/3eg6yx5

Was he doing public good with Anambrarians money in the abroad of Pandora?
See looter like Abacha wey dey disguise say im be saint. Who is he trying in vain to fool
Definitely not me and my household. Definitely not!!!

[quote author= post=115025192]Atiku and Obi.
Same of the same.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.[/quote]But ThiefNuibu is worse than the same of Atiku and Obi Pandora

Wisv:
Nigeria need peter obi.....

Another Abacha who hides looted money abroad in Pandora?
Why will a sane Nigerian need such a pretentious disaster

IboHausaYoruba:
Nigerians, let's learn to follow man that knows the road. Enough of Muslims taking us for granted. Tinubu has dared us by choosing a Muslim deputy, let's speak through our votes. Our fathers in the faith have spoken, Oyedepo, Johnson Suleiman, Enenche etc and CAN generally. The battle line has been drawn. If the over 28 million Christians in the North can cooperate with all the Christians in the South and pull our weights behind Peter Obi, then we are sure of winning. It is simple but requires dedications and focus. I AM OBIDIENT.

Peter Obi’s road leads to Pandora where his loot is hidden.
Shey na that lawless rogue you want make we follow?
Na so we suppose smart

MadamVanessa:
Even the foolish nonêntity lies merchant is lying now. What a being.

If not for the looted money he shares with his family, I am sure that they would have disowned him by now.

underated:
Sometime, Nigerians just like to criticize for criticism sake. Atiku responded well to those questions and as far as I’m concerned, his responses are balanced and unbiased. He gave simple solutions to underlying issues but it seems Nigerians need big grammar solutions to indicate if this person is fit or not. Good governance no be until u go havard go learn English.

Moreover, I think Nigerians are pushing their luck too far with our expectations. We’re demanding miracle that’s why we get scammed over and over again by religious leaders and politicians. They tell us what we ant to hear with little care of reality.

The reality is our leaders have little to do and can only take things step by step. Even with that, I don’t see Nigeria progressing because we Nigerians are natural evil people. We blame leaders for everything but they are just behavioural representations of the citizens.

You put that so well. Thanks

cenaman:
A thief will always remain a thief.

Like ThiefNuibu and Peter Obi

hurryup123:
But this time around Buhari is not contesting

Exactly.
Don’t mind the fraudulent Obi supporters giving themselves fake hope before BBNaija distracts them.

emmanuelbrown26:
So far en pass d message, English no mean anything. A professor for Germany no sabi grammar
A professor for China no sabi grammar or professor for Italy
I think say yorubas no dey insult their Kings, how cum dey wan sweep a whole Oba with broom?

Are lessons given in English by German, Italy and Chinese teachers? Or what is the basis of your comparison

merits:
Me walking majestically to the polling unit to vote Peter Obi, after taking my own share of loot from BAT & AA in 2023 general election.

Do you think that Peter Obi being a pretentious looter is why he was Atiku’s running mate in 2019? Or what is the reason

chaseblack:
You really think only hardwork make people rich?
Go to Alaba market, Oshodi, Aba etc and see people wake up 4am to resume work feeding only on bread and coke to save up for several years with little to show for it.
Or go to private primary schools in Nigeria to witness the kind of effort put into teaching to collect only 20000 monthly.

I swear Atiku has never worked as hard as that 'mei ruwa" on your street or that taxi driver on the road or the bricklayer on site. So what are you onto?

Working hard is not for individual prosperity alone but on the community issues to make everyone have an easier life of responsibility and accountability to the society.

blowjohn:
If u know how many parents leave their children's education and instead go about building houses u won't be talking this trash.

Many parents can afford private schools but will instead prefer to build a house in their state.

Are you replying to my comment that you quoted? Or to some other comment you pulled out from somewhere else that you will now share

Moh247:

Atiku loves Education so much that his University is one of the most unaffordable to common masses
Even grants that should go to LAUTECH, UNILAG and OAU, Atiku has it connered .

Meanwhile ThiefNuibu who wanted to be Atiku’s 2007 running mate has cornered the revenue for employing thousands of teachers to have every Lagos child in free primary, vocational and secondary schools. Please what do you have to say about this

Moh247:

Atiku loves Education so much that his University is one of the most unaffordable to common masses
Even grants that should go to LAUTECH, UNILAG and OAU, Atiku has it connered
.

Don’t you know how to get your senator and representative to block him from cornering the grants, or what is your wailing about please

AtikuOkowa:
This is the world class University built for the children of the masses like me.

I didn't see the son of the Governor or president till I graduate.

It is a miracle to study in world class University paying just hundred of thousands of Naira.

Please what is the minimum wage
How much is the earnings for the average family of four children to pay hundreds of thousands Naira?

chaseblack:
The rich getting richer

Because they are always working hard to get better? If the poor also work hard, why do you think that God won’t make them rich as well

Blackestjunior:
Them no see Federal schools wey dey on strike give the money abi

Please lobby Nigerian billionaires, especially the ones from your own area to do that. I hope no one is stopping you from doing that, or is there anyone stopping you

Honjoshy4u:
Na this kind president go value ASSU

He and Obasanjo created the UBE to support local and state governments in making primary and secondary schools free to every child.