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By now, it should be clear to an unbiased mind that PO lacks what it takes to be a successful leader.

At this critical time in our nation's history, any man who is know for lacking the courage to take decisive decisions (devoid of emotions & populist applause) on pressing matters cannot & should not even be contemplating running for President.

Nonetheless, whatever his dilemma may be, he put himself in it. Only him can remove himself but does he have the balls? Only time will tell.

What's a simp, again? Ngl, I cringed reading through screenshots of their chats; guy either has low self-esteem or he just likes being a wimp around ladies or maybe even both - a low self-esteem guy or a wimp.
Anyways, he deserves what he got.

Believe anything that proceeds from the former Anambra Governor's mouth at your own risk.
Never seen a man so given to emotional, tribal, religious & political sentiments. Never, also, have I seen a man whose stock in trade is twerking/pandering to public sentiments.
Anyways, I wish good luck to the parties in this disputed case.

Again, all politics is what, again? It's local! Unfortunately for Alhaji Atiku, his political travails are far from over.
This is just the beginning...

You see that last paragraph "Our focus is on serving the people of Kaduna State and building a united, inclusive, healthier, and more prosperous society—free from toxicity, discrimination, division, and exclusivity"? It will continue to be an albatross on Malam El-rufai's neck.
For his many good deeds as governor, his notoriety for elevating "toxicity, discrimination, division and exclusivity" to a state policy, would forever be a dent on his image.
It's another reason why the coalition are being cautious in making him a face of their movement; while there's no doubt that he would be a potent voice in shaping/driving toxic & divisive rhetorics against the Tinubu-led admin, they also have to be careful how he's deployed because most northern Christians (in Southern Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Benue, Kogi) don't have a good perception of him.

Politics is just amazing; there are never permanent foes, just permanent interests.
Less than 3yrs after Alhaji Atiku led a coalition that included then disgruntled PDP elements (with him being chief among them) to unseat then PGEJ (Reno's boss) from Aso Rock, Reno was already hobnobbing and even helping the chief betrayer of his boss to recruit a spox.
Isn't that interesting?

This was major news headlines back then & I don't recall Coach Samson Siasia immediately debunking the claims by Mikel Obi that he spent his personal money on the team just to save Nigeria a global embarrassment.
Perhaps, it's not flight arrangements he paid for but to deny now that he didn't spend a dime of his own personal money to fund some activities in the national football team (activities that ought to have been paid for by the NFF/Sports Ministry) that won bronze in the 2016 Rio Olympics must be a huge joke!

They'll not protest or come out en mass to lend their voices to calls for an end to politically, ethnically and religiously motivated killings under their noses: it's what's happening in a far away continent that doesn't concern them directly nor have any bearing on their lives and livelihoods is what they'll be concerned about.
Hypocrites of the highest order.

This is how you counter falsehoods and revisionists propaganda - with historical facts (names, places & events) that are already in public domain.

If Baba Bayo Onanuga were to be the one saddled with responding to Alh. Sule Lamido, he would've started with insults and ended with even more insults and propaganda about how PBAT has been the best thing to happen to our democracy since 1960.

nlfpmod:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/06/18/ahmadu-bello-university-bans-bushy-hair-beards-kissing-hugging-others-among-students-new

Lol. As an alumni of this great citadel of learning, this dress code isn't a new thing; there was even a time (can't remember if it was under the late Prof. Mahdi or his immediate successor) that the University put up a "wall of shame"

If you're caught flouting the dress code at that time, you'll be marched to the security office (used to be near Faculty of Arts) & your photos taken (like a mugshot) & published in a bulletin.

Sadly, decades later, this rules are still being imposed on students.

Anyways, the students will adjust 'cause they know A.B.U don't play when it comes to enforcing their rules and regulations.

This level of delusion is grandiose. Ask the same people if the man they're propping up as having the solutions to all our problems if he completely solved the insecurity problem in Anambra for the eight ( years he was governor & they'll start giving you a different story.

One week? LMAO.

Lol. If one of PBAT's erstwhile supporter was the one speaking about him like this - in a very bad light - most folks trying to spin this Kenneth Okonkwo's reputation damaging interview of Peter Obi would've hailed it as a master class.

The same category of people will call a particular region ethnic bigots for voting one of their own to be President yet hail the other candidate's region as patriotic for voting for one of theirs.

Barr. Okonkwo's interview was revealing and says a lot about Obi's personality & character - a man who's indecisive, panders to popular opinion, plays both sides & doesn't keep to his words.

For someone who was & probably still close to Obi, those were weighty allegations he made against the ex-Presidential flag bearer of the LP.

I concur with the second reason the writer gave while strongly disagreeing with their first reason.
As it stands, HEPO best chances are either to be running mate to HE Atiku Abubakar in 2027 or run as the flag bearer of the entire coalition movement.
Anything outside of these options is handing PBAT a second term on a silver platter.
Whether Atiku will keep to his promise of running for a single term of 4years only is premature at this early stages as the major focus of the coalition should be on sacking the APC from Aso Villa first, then power sharing comes second because like the writer observed, Atiku may swear on his grand-children's lives that he'll do a single term & hand over to Obi only to get in and do something else.
Why that option is even more complicated (Atiku single term & hand over to Obi) is that assuming Atiku actually keeps to his word, will Obi also do a single term & power returns to the North or he'll do two terms of 8 years before power returns to the North?
Embedded in this option is Atiku to run in 2027 with Obi as running mate & they both do two-terms together as President & VP respectively i.e assuming they win & are declared winners.
Afterwards, power can then revert to the South (whether Obi will get the ticket by then, is another political calculation of its own).
So, any rational & politically inclined reader will see why HEPO's best shot to Aso Villa in 2027 is to be adopted as the coalition's sole candidate otherwise, if they repeat the mistakes of 2023, they'll reap the same outcome.

LMAO. Only one man - diminutive - for that matter, held an entire airline staff & pax. captive yet, they could do nothing.
Most Nigerians are just noise; empty chest beating & social media rants, no balls on 'em.

War is terrible! The costs are unquantifiable & the worse part of it is that the recovery process is never-ending. If only both countries had allowed peace & matured-reasoning to prevail.

Unfortunately, the political plight of the Igbo people will continue to be a tool for desperate & mischievous politicians such as Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

Even most unfortunate is the fact that the people themselves know this, yet, continue to allow politicians who only seek to use them for cheap political gains to ride on their cultural identity.

Unfortunately, the political plight of the Igbo people will continue to be a tool for desperate & mischievous politicians such as Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

Even most unfortunate is the fact that the people themselves know this, yet, continue to allow politicians who only seek to use them for cheap political gains to ride on their cultural identity.

Well... You can't argue with data.

Southern Kaduna are eating good under Gov. Uba Sani & PBAT; last time they probably ate this good since 1999 was under Gov. Makarfi (who was nicknamed John because of his perceived soft spot for the people of SK).

Just yesterday, PBAT named the widow of late Gov. Patrick Yakowa (the first SK & Christian Governor of Kaduna State) as a member of the board of NAU, Awka. After over a decade since her husband's demise & of being forgotten, PBAT apparently on the recommendation of Gov. Sani, recommended her for federal appointment (Fun fact: Mal. Uba Sani as he was then known, was SA Political to then Gov. Yakowa. Glad to see he has forgotten the Yakowa family).

Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, couldn't help but observe keenly the first photo frame: notice how nucleated their settlements are? So, close-knit that you'd think they're all members of one household. Methinks it's due to the insecurity problems pervading the area that informed this type of settlement pattern. The people want to be able to defend themselves i their numbers against invaders; the downside to it is that if the invaders are more armed & determined than their victims (and most times they are), they usually leave in their trail mass casualties as we've seen in SK over the years.

God bless Kaduna State.

Well said.

Lookmun:
You said the video could have been taken on a slow business day? I think you are wrong. The shelves are practically empty. This was not the case in this and many other ShopRite stores nationwide some years back. Tribalism and political affiliation need not cloud our judgement about what is very obvious before our eyes.

Not everything has to be viewed from a political or tribal prism, Chief.

I was wrong to have attributed the development to a slow business day or time without addressing the issue of the empty shelves.

I later read another submission on this thread that gave me another perspective to why this may be the case among other factors and I did say so here 👇

aylipple:
Okay, this is actually another angle to the whole scenario; the fact that Shoprite have since exited Nigeria and are probably just scaling down their operations makes sense.
For e.g the Shoprite at Novare Mall, Central (Wuse Zone 5) has shut down since last year. The one at Apo is a shadow of itself and may also soon shutdown too.
While the diminished purchasing power of Nigerians is a strong factor in the decline of shopping culture among Nigerians, there are also other factors at play.

Point is, we may agree to disagree without attaching our cause of disagreement or agreement to tribal or political reasons.

Okay, this is actually another angle to the whole scenario; the fact that Shoprite have since exited Nigeria and are probably just scaling down their operations makes sense.
For e.g the Shoprite at Novare Mall, Central (Wuse Zone 5) has shut down since last year. The one at Apo is a shadow of itself and may also soon shutdown too.
While the diminished purchasing power of Nigerians is a strong factor in the decline of shopping culture among Nigerians, there are also other factors at play.

christejames:
Not just Ilorin, I think since the anchor managers of Shoprite left Nigeria 🇳🇬 the company has not been itself again...


Same in Enugu and other locations across board.

Foot falls at shopping malls in some parts of the country are now being used as a benchmark to measure the success or otherwise of the Tinubu admin.
While those who use this indices to measure the admin may not be entirely wrong, it’s also not an accurate reflection of the economic situation in the country; before my position is mistaken as denying the existence of economic hardship realities across the country, what I’m saying is there are other ways to measure than using foot fall in malls
For instance, the video could’ve been made on a slow business day or time also, the fact remains that if any such business owners in the mall aren’t making sales in volumes that cover their running costs and then some little profit, they would’ve closed shop without delay to cut further incurring losses.
Finally, they try to paint the economy as very terrible & unfavorable to businesses yet, their hero who came 3rd in the last presidential elections, has rebuilt his mall (Next Cash & Carry) that was burnt down in a fire accident some few years back; he will restock the business, employ new hands, etc knowing how business owners operate and project, if the economy isn’t viable and doesn’t support businesses to grow and make profit, would he have bothered to reinvest tens of billions to rebuilding? Who rebuilds in a dying or stiffling economy?

No boundaries whatsoever with Nigerian politicians; they believe they can grab/hold anyone especially females or place their hands in inappropriate places without repercussion.
Engr. Umahi is lucky if not for his position, Ambassador Bianca for tear am better slap; a no-no sense woman!

Lol. Scales ⚖️ are beginning to fall 🍂 off. The unraveling of Peter Obi will be epic; just going to be watching from afar off when it happens because it'll surely happen.

Well, while the headline is misleading, there's no gainsaying that the LP flag bearer in the 2023 presidential elections is a "packaged" failure of a politician.

As a private trader of reputable standing and recognition, he was & remains successful but as a two-term governor, his records of achievements are as little as they come.

If by now you still don't get the "hidden" message PDT was passing - just days before the conclave to elect a new Pope - by posting an AI generated image of himself as Pope... Nvm.

Lol. They can't even keep his "relocation" to the NE under wraps. Eye service everywhere.
Shior!

Lifestone:
You didn't reason with facts. The 735 duplexes he seized was not from Yahoo boys to mention just one.
The fact is that Nigeria is a complex country to manager and citizens have a responsibility to make it easier for the government by being law abiding.
All these social media miscreants chasing clout should just stay within the law.

753 duplexes actually. Again, while I admit that the EFCC under Mr. Olukoyede has notched a handful of victories in the war against corruption, their activities have been largely focused on the "small fries" and their scorecard, underwhelming.

Nonetheless, his job isn't an easy one that's for sure.

Lifestone:
Yet he has achieved the most of all the efcc Chairmen from inception. Reason am.

I reason am & came to the conclusion that his high conviction rate is mostly of "yahoo yahoo" boys & the likes. He's not yet up to two years in office but how many high profile cases has the EFCC under him successfully investigated, built-up a solid case (that can lead to conviction) & then prosecute in court?

We all saw how the EFCC under his leadership made a public spectacle of the Yahaya Bello case & how it also handled the Betta Edu/Halima Shehu/Sadiya Farouk cases, Bobrisky/Cubana Chief Priest/E-money/Okoya son's matter etc. & now, the EFCC appears to be playing the unfortunate role of turning hitherto ordinary citizens, into heroes/prisoners of conscience.

EFCC Under Ola Olukoyede has left the "big fishes" to keep swimming in their ocean of corruption while it goes after fingerlings on the corruption ladder.

EFCC under Olukayode or whatever his name is, has become one huge joke. The most useless, jobless & unserious era of the EFCC is what we're witnessing under its current leadership. What a shame!

Dem go soon still sack this one!