Remarkably, the Tinubu Camp now appears to be feeling the heat of the Muslim-Muslim ticket with even Southern Christians in Tinubu territory in the Southwest appearing to be saying No.

The Tinubu Camp appears to have seen that the loss of support from Tinubu is flowing towards Peter Obi and it is no surprise that the Tinubu camp appears to be firing the Labour Party candidate from all angles.

This is the Cruz of this Writing

Two months after operatives of the All Progressives Congress, APC bussed-in a coterie of fake and unknown bishops for the unveiling of its vice-presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, the party’s presidential flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu last Thursday met with genuine and known bishops in Abuja.

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That Shettima incident in July introduced the phraseology of unknown bishops to the already weighty shipment of negative terminologies that have come vide the APC these last few years.

Among the more dangerous phrases are unknown gunmen, killer Fulani herdsmen, budget padding, banditry, terrorists, oil theft among other incredulous dimensions to the polity.

Two or so weeks after the APC bishops made their appearance at the Shettima unveiling, Lagos socialite, Pretty Mike made a mockery of the party when he staged an appearance at a social event with a retinue of fake bishops preceding him! As they entered that particular event and in mockery of the APC bishops, a voice over burst out with someone asking “can I know you, can I know you?”

The recruitment of the fake and unknown bishops was seen by some as a slap on the Christian religion. Some questioned whether the APC could have done the same thing with Islamic clerics had the table turned the other way.


The recruitment of the fake and unknown bishops at the unveiling of Shettima was apparently to stage the claim that Christendom was appreciative of the Muslim-Muslim ticket offered by the APC.

It is doubtful if Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was part of that drama. Tinubu has to a large extent not given in to religious discrimination.


As some have said, someone who has not been able to convert his wife and all his children should not be perceived as a religious bigot.

However, that defence is punctured by the assertion that Tinubu is not running to rule his house, but Nigeria. It is in that light that many of the critics of the Muslim-Muslim ticket have projected their opposition.


It is remarkable that the opposition is being fueled by some like Yakubu Dogara and Babachir Lawal, men who had until recently been in the frontline in advocating the Tinubu candidacy.

Your correspondent is aware that within the APC that Tinubu was warned of the dangerous implication of his move.

Immediately after he chose Shettima, the APC candidate according to sources, was asked by some within the Northern Christian establishment to address the issue, but the camp of the APC candidate chose to ignore them.

It is that decision that may have well inspired the rabid animosity of Babchir Lawal and Dogara to pulling down the house that they helped to build.

Remarkably, the Tinubu Camp now appears to be feeling the heat of the Muslim-Muslim ticket with even Southern Christians in Tinubu territory in the Southwest appearing to be saying No.

The Tinubu Camp appears to have seen that the loss of support from Tinubu is flowing towards Peter Obi and it is no surprise that the Tinubu camp appears to be firing the Labour Party candidate from all angles.

With Christians forming an influential proportion of the votes in the North, it seems the stark reality of opposition from that community is now facing the APC candidate more and more.

However, dropping Shettima appears out of the question.

It was as such needful for the APC to made amends by meeting with the Christian establishment in the North. It appears as if the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN having openly stated its opposition was not approachable.

That may have well suggested the interaction with the bishops. Well this time, genuine and known bishops under the aegis Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria.

The chairman of the group, Archbishop John Praise is not like the unknown bishops, one of whom was spotted at Idu Market, Abuja selling plumbing materials. He is the head of the Dominion Chapel International Churches.

At the end of their meeting on Thursday, Bishop John Praise said:

“We are not committed to endorsing anybody, but you should ask your conscience and from what you have heard and from the explanation, he (Tinubu) had given to us to make your own judgement of who will better rule and handle the country.”

Tinubu on his part restated the fact that his choice of Shettima was based on competence. According to him Senator Shettima’s virtues in government qualified him for the ticket.

“My intention is clear, not religiosity. My intention is to develop this country, to bring prosperity to our country and I have better qualification, better track records, better exposure, better vision than any of my mates,” Tinubu was quoted as saying last Thursday.

But against the background of the recent overflow of bigotry churned out by the outgoing administration in religious matters, many believe that Tinubu could have been more adept in bringing healing to the polity by projecting a balanced ticket that would heal the wounds of the last few years.

His initial decision to stonewall the behind the scene demand for consultations by Northern Christian leaders did not help him. That action was worsened by the fake and unknown bishops incident. His meeting with genuine and known bishops is just the beginning.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/09/tinubu-between-known-and-unknown-bishops/

conductor250:
No

Tinubu urchins and the Nation newspapers are known for fake news

Na lie ooo.. it's fake news

Mynd44 seun lalasticlala

Shouldn't this move to front page?

socialmediaman:
lhordspy since you don't believe ANAP and all these random pollsters, have you started running your own poll? We need the unedited version. Just 1% of Lagos residents. I want to check something.

he will say this one is also doctored

Lagos 4 Peter Obi

Moh247:


It's just six months time eyes go clear

Same here.. by six months time, u will understand who the Northerners really are


For Expo go and ask ur god Awolowo and Abiola, they will tell u never to trust a northern politician

Moh247:




Lol

Kai walai... We Hausa Fulani go give Peter Obi 80% vote..

Sai Peter Obi

Sai Peter Obi

I dey wonder where Tinubu will get is votes oo,, my Boyfriend's people in the core north are abandoning him for their sons.

Wahala dey for anybody wey think say hin go inherit Buharis 12million Northern votes all by himself

Moh247:


Lol

As a Northern man from Sokoto State I will vote Peter Obi

Are you happy now?

that's good


My Boyfriend from Kano says that he will Mobilize at 25% for Peter Obi in the North west

Moh247:
Zombidiots will believe anyone.... Let me go and use my Northern username to catch cruise with Zombidiots on twitter


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shifting the goal post... from no northerner will Vote for PO , now it's those doing that is doing it for clout

I love how u urchins keep shifting the post

Rozross:
[s]Tanko Yunusa is an amateur politician that’s still trying to find his voice, nobody takes him seriously. May Peter Obi never happen to Nigeria[/s]

Same way u are a low level Amateur Zone B

When Tinubu win, u will still stay for trenches while his fellow politicians even from the South east u demonize will eat ur already Bleak future

#Olodo

You may have interacted with Peter Obi enough to know what he will do if he becomes the President…

The documents are being worked on because we follow the manifesto of the party. Remember the party represents social democracy and it’s an ideologically based political party. One of the contents of the documents of the Labour Party is to create jobs for the Nigerian youths because an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, which of course translates into the mantra that Peter Obi has continued to use, consumption to production, which is the key because it’s only when you produce that you will be able to shore up your income and draw down the high rate of foreign currency and create employment for the people.
The Labour Party manifesto also talks about excessive spending without prudency and everybody knows that Peter Obi is a prudent spender and you expect that spending will be made with regards to production that will help the nation. There is the issue of education which would involve working with the charter of the United Nations for funding of education; we must also recognise the issue of insecurity and what Obi did in Anambra as governor is a sample of how he would tackle social service matters.

Peter Obi has been running away from the word ‘restructuring,’ does it mean that he would not restructure the country if elected?

No, he is not running away from restructuring. He’s a practical person. He said that every Nigerian will be involved in decisions that will help take Nigeria out of the woods. We want to discuss it and solve the problem in Nigeria but he never runs away from the issue of restructuring. What he even said in the last meeting with Afenifere, PANDEF and the Middle Belt Forum was that he wants to be a member of the team to discuss the issue and take a decision. He just wants to carry all of us along to have a robust discussion that will bring the best for Nigerians.

As a northerner, do you like the idea of restructuring?

Why not? At the end of it all, the accused may be the beneficiary. Look, the issue of restructuring is about creating jobs and making sure that the Nigerian system gets better. I feel pained as a northerner when my people are not being put to productive use. Do you know that every local government area in Nigeria has its own way of internal survival? In my own local government in Kano, for example, we may feel marginalised but we produce rice. We have young boys and girls who are well educated in western education but they have not enjoyed the bountiful land that God has given to them and with that kind of discussion, it will give my people room to come out and say we are being denied ABCD. So I will never be afraid of restructuring but I will not accept being dominated by anybody, I will not accept being denied my fundamental rights as a human being. I will challenge it.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/09/2023-why-northll-vote-for-obi-tanko/

Dr. Yunusa Tanko is the spokesperson of the Third Force Coalition for the Labour Party. He was once a presidential candidate and former chairman of Interparty Advisory Council, IPAC, in 2019.



In this interview, he speaks on the state of the nation, 2023 polls and the chances of LP presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, among others.

What actually is the Third Force and its focus?

The Third Force is a coalition that adopted the Labour Party; it’s a conglomerate of individuals such as Prof. Pat Utomi and others, we are the ones championing the cause of a new political movement that is different from the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The Third Force that emerged is the Labour Party adopted by the Third Force movement as its own political vehicle and quite a number of political parties are involved such as the 15 registered political parties that joined the Labour Party recently. Apart from political parties, there are quite a number of technocrats, intellectuals, political juggernauts, all representing the interest of Nigerians devoid of the APC and the PDP.
The focus of the Third Force is to bring in a new ideologically- based political party that will take Nigeria out of the woods of the dominant political parties.

Can you clear the air on the issue of who is the spokesman for the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation?

What really happened is that there was a Big Tent, a support group for Mr. Peter Obi. We have an intellectual support group, finance support group, security support group, media support group, and mobilisation support group for Peter Obi/ Datti candidacy of the Labour Party.


For now, I cannot say yes or no that I am the spokesman for the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, but I would rather leave it for a formal pronouncement by the campaign organisation. On several occasions, I’ve been mentioned in that regard but we are just waiting for their formal pronouncement.

The view in certain quarters is that Peter Obi is just a social media creation that does not have a taproot. Does Obi actually have a taproot?


Oh yes, he does. He seriously has because the difference between Peter Obi candidacy and the other candidates is that it is the people that are yearning for him and I will give you a simple example. You will find out that if you are going to have a rally, most of the conventional politicians would be the ones financing the rally, mobilising with T-shirts and banners, but in the case of Peter Obi, it is the people that pay for banners, billboards, face caps, organise marches with no kobo from Peter Obi as mobilisation and so you can see that it is the people that are mobilising for Peter Obi while the other candidates use their own resources to mobilise for themselves. So, I think that Obi has more taproots than any other conventional politician in Nigeria

Are you sure that these young people will come out with their PVCs to vote on election day?


Oh sure! Let me give you statistics, over 12 million people registered in the recent CVR and out of the 12 million, within the ages of 18 and 35 are youths and they represent about eight million registrants and most of them got attracted to the Peter Obi candidacy, not to talk about the old registration of voters which was about 84 million. The INEC is now targeting over 90 million registered voters. For sure, eight million youths registered purely for the interest of Peter Obi and if you want to do your mathematics, you take that eight million out of the 15 million that voted for Buhari in 2019. So when you minus eight million from 15 million, you will have seven million left for us to cover but we are targeting a population of 30 to 40 million voters for Peter Obi out of the 90 million that registered as voters. This is our strategic calculation because the upsurge has affected the older generation which you can attest to nationwide.

Last Saturday (two weeks ago), Rivers State had a large number of people that came out to mobilise, same thing in Enugu. In Kaduna, it was supposed to happen but they were physically denied by the Governor. So you can see that people just mobilise themselves, it is a spontaneous mobilisation. I just came back from the North-West where we visited Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi and Katsina states. These are core northern states and you will be amazed to know that there are people in Kano, Sokoto, putting up billboards with their own money, mobilising.

In a place where we went, at Aminu Kano’s house, the hall was filled to the brim with people and we didn’t give them money to come, we only told them there is sensitization of the Labour Party which was the first to be done by the party. It was the same in Katsina, Jigawa, Kebbi and that is how the mobilisation is going on even in the North eastern part of the federation. The amazing thing is that the level of the commitment of the people is unprecedented and for the first time in the history of Nigeria, you saw how the TUC and the NLC submitted their charter of demand to the candidate of the Labour Party which of course, is their political party and the TUC also sent their workers’ document for transformation agenda on policy to the same Peter Obi and so invariably, there is a humongous support from all walks of life for the candidature of Peter Obi.

What can you say on the allegation that one of the Presidential candidates is a contractor supplying the INEC machines for the election?
That will be investigated. Once we find out that it is true, we will challenge it in the court of law.


You are from the North and there are fears that the North will not vote for Peter Obi, how true is that?

That is a fallacy. Look, as we are today, check the statistics, the Minister of Finance is from the North, Minister of Defence is from the North, Economic Minister and other major principal officers, the Police IG, are from the North but if one person is killed in the South, 100 other persons are killed in the North. The economic situation of the North has gone completely down, people cannot even go to their farms and you want to tell me that these people suffering so badly will not vote for Peter Obi. This is just a creation of some people that want to sow a seed of discord in the minds of people.

To give you an example, I was in Guzau and I saw a physically challenged person and the moment we mentioned that we were the representatives of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, she burst into tears. She said they’ve been looking for a messiah that will help them and save them from this particular situation. And so, she opted that it is Peter Obi that she will vote for. This is a person with disability. So, if anybody tells you that they will not vote for Peter Obi, it’s a total lie. If they believe that there is nobody that will vote for Peter Obi in the North, why did they stop us from the one million-man march that we organised in Kaduna? That is to tell you that there is apprehension. Number two is that it’s just a ploy to send fears into the minds of a common northerner but every northerner is highly educated in terms of politics and they know the capacity of the person they want to vote for.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/09/2023-why-northll-vote-for-obi-tanko/

Throwback:


We know he did not finish with a 1st Class. Not everyone must have the brains that can turn [/b]N600m monthly IGR to N7b monthly IGR like Tinubu did.[b]

But will Fidelity Bank hire a 2.2?

yen yen yen
More bunkum again
Tinubu didn't submit his Secondary school cert..

Btw at the bolded: show me a project Tinubu started and completed in his 8 yrs a governor that led directly to the increment of Lagos IGR??

Throwback:


We Nigerian youths are done reviewing Tinubu's matter. We know the many confirmation sent in by Chicago State University and Richard Daley College.

The spotlight is now on Peter Obi.

Is Peter Gregory or is it Gregory Peter, avoiding the submission of his UNN and NYSC certificate?

Onwubuasi or Onwubuase should be proud of his qualifications. Not everyone must be a genius at undergraduate level.

[/b]I believe 2.2 can get a job at Peter Obi’s Fidelity Bank.[b]

Or isn't it so?

@ the bolded: from saying he failed to he av 2.2



I love how Obi is making Urchins to always shift the goal post

Oya cry more

This thread is nonsense




In Unn and NYSC where Obi was issued his certificates, they issued it with his full names, while in Inec they didn't fill all his names.. even we all know his as simply Peter Obi

So take ur nonsense thread outta here

ImperialYoruba:


Peter Obi should respond.

the way Tinubu responded to one million boys in Lagos

Inec av a simple job which is to conduct Credible elections, but they are failing in that regard

See thread wey dem create now now don enter front page already

I am obedient
Am voting Peter Obi
And he will succeed as our president

Nice interpretation

EdoBoy90:
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You are missing it.

A word is a enough for the wise. Even INEC emphasized on this also. He is not INEC. We should do the right thing.

and what is the right thing?


Also what did Inec emphasized too

Nonsense analysis

D

etrouble:


If you take it seriously nko? What will you do? You can only cry and scream, we gonna do what we gonna do.

We told you, we shall meet at the polling booths, at the rigging rooms, and at the election tribunal up to the Supreme Court where our Nigga is the CJF.

POL 901: Advanced Politicking in the 21st Century

Bookmarked

Michelle70:
Rivers state.

The state is undecided for now, PO might come second here. His acceptance is only second to PDP and has surpassed APC

Rivers is 70% Obicentric
tnx

Lolz

How is this plagiarism