₦airaland Forum

THE BURDEN OF PROOF

Fellow OBIdients, as this campaign season heats up, please expect a lot of fake news to be spread against Peter Obi and his supporters.

This is expected because Obi is the front runner and the candidate to beat.

And in politics, if you are behind, the way to try and catch up with the front runner is via negative attacks - try to make the person look bad before the people so you can try and peal off his supporters.

Peter Obi is CLEARLY ahead going into 2023 elections and EVERYONE knows this.

So please expect APC and PDP people to keep lobbing negative attacks against Obi.

But when they do this, remember that the burden of proof of ANY accusation (e.g. Obi is a liar) lies with the one making the accusation!

It is not your job to prove that Obi is not a liar! It is their job to prove that he is! And after they have provided proper evidence supporting their claim, you can then provide counter evidence showing they are wrong.

Do not allow them put you on the defense and ask you to prove an allegation that they made such as to prove that “Obi is NOT a liar” or “Obi is NOT IPOB” or that the “North does not distrust Obi”. It is logical fallacy called “proving a negative”. It is impossible to prove that something does not exist because you will have to have knowledge of everything to know that something does not exist.

So whenever they say “Obi lied about so and so” or “Anambra IGR did not grow under Obi” - do not waste your time bringing up evidence trying to convince them that Obi did not lie. Instead ask them to prove it - let them show evidence of the lie!

They will tell you “go to Google and search”.

Respond with “No sir - you made the allegation, you go to Google and get the evidence and come and show me! And until you do so - this is FAKE NEWS and I do not respond to fake news”

If someone makes a claim, the burden to prove that the claim is true lies with them! It is not your job to prove that the claim is not true - until you have been provided evidence to back up the claim.

Stay OBIdient.

Legend

Happy birthday sir.

May he live to see a new Nigeria as Peter Obi set the part.

Igbo ne me ihe sirike

helinues:
Obi is not popular in the North

Know that and have peace of mind

Oga, Kwankwaso and Tinubu are not known in my village too. Be calming down. My grandmother votes. If I mention Kwankwaso or Tinubu she has no clue.

Calm down. Campaign will reach every where and Nigerians will decide

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jafol:
You called him double face but what about Wike your Igbo brother

Wike has remained silent sir. That's a man.

People can assume or preempt him but Wike has not said a word

Nobody should tell me this is not targeted.

If not show me any Imam or sheikh of a mosque which has been kidnapped and I will show you 10 catholic priests who have been killed.

They are instilling fear in Northern Christians

I pray APC picks El-Rufai as VP.

Makes PDP and LP have more chances

thebosstrevor1:
The job of ivf or surrogacy

I believe ivf is the miracle wonder here.

So the God of heaven can't do it

I don't envy anyone who takes over from Buhari.

The damage is colossal.

Meanwhile where is Tinubu.

this guy is enjoying his short term puclicity and fame, hence, the need to keep pushing out content

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Fayose is a failed man in Ekiti state.

PDP came third in election under his watch

He agreed that PDP will leave their presidential ticket open.

Even if he didn't agree, why didn't he protest before the primaries.

Now that primaries are over, he is shouting its the turn of the south.

He is a hypocrite. Far from being a party man.

See his own brother who has benefitted from FAYOSE when he was under that same PDP AS GOVERNOR.

Why are these people snakes. nawa

Double faced human like they are known

KingofAnambra:
President Tinubu's son is a quadrillion times better looking and more accomplished than this your low budget yahoo boy

What does Tinubu's son do for a living

at least we know where Obi's son stay in UK. Where he works etc

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@lalasticlala

Then no born the MOD that will move this to front page

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People can hail him but it doesn't change the fact that he is headed to jail

Lol

THE OBI-DIENT MOVEMENT AND HER CRITICS

The notion that individual's choice of a political candidate should not be questioned simply because it is their democratic right, is a very silly notion. Puerile, even! The sheer illogicality of that logic smells to high heavens.

Your right to choose a candidate to support is not immune to criticism. And considering that the consequences of whatever choice you make will not be limited to you alone, the people who are going to be affected by that choice of yours reserve the right, inalienable right, I must add, to react to your choice in whatever form, shape or manner they deem fit as long as they don't PHYSICALLY attack you.

I mean, you cannot, for whatever reason, DELIBERATELY elect to support a candidate that deep down, you know is unfit for the job and expect the people who will suffer the consequences of your choice to roll out the drum and sing Kumbaya for you. With Muhammadu Buhari, we've seen how a wrong choice of a candidate can put an entire country into a fundamentally grave existential crisis.

Some of these people who complain of insult each time their choice is questioned are actually manipulators playing some s!ck mind game with the sole aim of shutting people down from questioning their choices which, if truth be told, are largely induced by INTESTINAL CONSIDERATIONS. Some of them even go as far as using fake social media accounts to send a threat to their inbox so they could screenshot same and share online as evidence that the young people who are merely fighting for their future, are abusive. Some spend more time disparaging the candidate of the youths instead of selling their own candidate only to start complaining when the people whose candidate they are denigrating come to give them their deserved response.

Let us even assume while not conceding, of course, that the youths are fighting for their future in an abusive way, who will live in a country like Nigeria under the past 7 years of the Buhari regime and not be abusive to anyone trying to punish him with another 8 years of a Buhari-like regime?? Who?

Let me be very clear, if, for instance, an adult is m£ntally-barr£n enough to publicly announce that he is supporting a particular unfit candidate simply because he paid his school fees or medical bill sometime in the past, I am well within my right to freedom of speech to call that adult a fuulish idjiot for trying to use the destiny of over 200 million people to pay back a personal favor. And this would not be me being abusive. On the contrary, the abusive one is the m0r0n who think the chance of over 200 million people to elect a govt that will create the enabling environment for them to live a decent life and afford the most basic services a responsible govt ought to provide, should be sacrificed just so he could get to pay back a personal favor.

This is the same country where young unarmed defenceless Nigerians were massacred by the military that exists to protect them and this massacre took place while the victims were SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WHILE WAVING THE NATIONAL FLAG; something that ought to be classified as TREASON against the very soul and heart of this thing masquerading as a nation. And you blame these people for being angry at those trying to cur$e them with the same people who murdered them and defended and justified their murder??

The truth is, the OBI-DIENT MOVEMENT is a very peaceful and very organized movement peopled mainly by people who have had enough and are willing to use whatever they have to fight for their life with SUICIDAL DEFIANCE. Just like that RIGHTEOUS and noble movement that was EndSars, this current movement is self-motivated, self-funded and on AUTO-PILOT. But unlike EndSars, the Obi-dient movement is currently spreading like wild fire in the North. Truth be told, The #Arewa4Obi rally yesterday surpassed the expectations of even the organizers.

If the Nigerian establishment and political elites have even the littlest ounce of intelligence, instead of fighting to discredit the OBI-DIENT MOVEMENT with puerile lies and low budget propaganda, using their political alleluya boys like Reno Omokri, Dino Melaye etc, they should be doing some real DEEP INTROSPECTION. This ought to be a perfect opportunity for SOBER REFLECTION for them. They should be asking questions like;

How did one man, Mr. Peter Obi managed to inspire this high level of hope in millions of young people from East, West, South and North? What is so special about this man that Nigerian youths are using their own money to campaign for him and give him those services for which other Presidential candidates are looking for who to pay in hard currency for?? Who is this man that has effortlessly changed our politics to the point that, for the very first time in our election cycle, we are witnessing a campaign period where politicians and their spouses are not going about frying akara, jumping on okada and eating amala and ewedu or corn in front of camera just to show faux camaraderie and 'street credibility'.

I wish all of us followed that Twitter Space hosted by the irrepressible David Hundeyin which lasted for almost 24 hours and featured thousandS of young people recounting what they've lost (loved ones, family, life-changing opportunities etc) under Buhari's regime. Then, some of you would understand that the people who hide under "it is my right" to knowingly foist a bad govt on you are your w0rst £n£mies who should be treated as such.

By Charles Ogbu (Twitter@RealCharlesOgbu)

THE OBI-DIENT MOVEMENT AND HER CRITICS

By Charles Ogbu (Twitter@RealCharlesOgbu)

The notion that individual's choice of a political candidate should not be questioned simply because it is their democratic right, is a very silly notion. Puerile, even! The sheer illogicality of that logic smells to high heavens.

Your right to choose a candidate to support is not immune to criticism. And considering that the consequences of whatever choice you make will not be limited to you alone, the people who are going to be affected by that choice of yours reserve the right, inalienable right, I must add, to react to your choice in whatever form, shape or manner they deem fit as long as they don't PHYSICALLY attack you.

I mean, you cannot, for whatever reason, DELIBERATELY elect to support a candidate that deep down, you know is unfit for the job and expect the people who will suffer the consequences of your choice to roll out the drum and sing Kumbaya for you. With Muhammadu Buhari, we've seen how a wrong choice of a candidate can put an entire country into a fundamentally grave existential crisis.

Some of these people who complain of insult each time their choice is questioned are actually manipulators playing some s!ck mind game with the sole aim of shutting people down from questioning their choices which, if truth be told, are largely induced by INTESTINAL CONSIDERATIONS. Some of them even go as far as using fake social media accounts to send a threat to their inbox so they could screenshot same and share online as evidence that the young people who are merely fighting for their future, are abusive. Some spend more time disparaging the candidate of the youths instead of selling their own candidate only to start complaining when the people whose candidate they are denigrating come to give them their deserved response.

Let us even assume while not conceding, of course, that the youths are fighting for their future in an abusive way, who will live in a country like Nigeria under the past 7 years of the Buhari regime and not be abusive to anyone trying to punish him with another 8 years of a Buhari-like regime?? Who?

Let me be very clear, if, for instance, an adult is m£ntally-barr£n enough to publicly announce that he is supporting a particular unfit candidate simply because he paid his school fees or medical bill sometime in the past, I am well within my right to freedom of speech to call that adult a fuulish idjiot for trying to use the destiny of over 200 million people to pay back a personal favor. And this would not be me being abusive. On the contrary, the abusive one is the m0r0n who think the chance of over 200 million people to elect a govt that will create the enabling environment for them to live a decent life and afford the most basic services a responsible govt ought to provide, should be sacrificed just so he could get to pay back a personal favor.

This is the same country where young unarmed defenceless Nigerians were massacred by the military that exists to protect them and this massacre took place while the victims were SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WHILE WAVING THE NATIONAL FLAG; something that ought to be classified as TREASON against the very soul and heart of this thing masquerading as a nation. And you blame these people for being angry at those trying to cur$e them with the same people who murdered them and defended and justified their murder??

The truth is, the OBI-DIENT MOVEMENT is a very peaceful and very organized movement peopled mainly by people who have had enough and are willing to use whatever they have to fight for their life with SUICIDAL DEFIANCE. Just like that RIGHTEOUS and noble movement that was EndSars, this current movement is self-motivated, self-funded and on AUTO-PILOT. But unlike EndSars, the Obi-dient movement is currently spreading like wild fire in the North. Truth be told, The #Arewa4Obi rally yesterday surpassed the expectations of even the organizers.

If the Nigerian establishment and political elites have even the littlest ounce of intelligence, instead of fighting to discredit the OBI-DIENT MOVEMENT with puerile lies and low budget propaganda, using their political alleluya boys like Reno Omokri, Dino Melaye etc, they should be doing some real DEEP INTROSPECTION. This ought to be a perfect opportunity for SOBER REFLECTION for them. They should be asking questions like;

How did one man, Mr. Peter Obi managed to inspire this high level of hope in millions of young people from East, West, South and North? What is so special about this man that Nigerian youths are using their own money to campaign for him and give him those services for which other Presidential candidates are looking for who to pay in hard currency for?? Who is this man that has effortlessly changed our politics to the point that, for the very first time in our election cycle, we are witnessing a campaign period where politicians and their spouses are not going about frying akara, jumping on okada and eating amala and ewedu or corn in front of camera just to show faux camaraderie and 'street credibility'.

I wish all of us followed that Twitter Space hosted by the irrepressible David Hundeyin which lasted for almost 24 hours and featured thousandS of young people recounting what they've lost (loved ones, family, life-changing opportunities etc) under Buhari's regime. Then, some of you would understand that the people who hide under "it is my right" to knowingly foist a bad govt on you are your w0rst £n£mies who should be treated as such.

Remnant Christian Network-Apostle Arome Osayi-Benue

Encounter Jesus International Apostle Michael Orokpo-Abuja

Koinonia- Apostle Joshua Selman-Abuja

Anakazo mission international- Apostle Effa Emmanuel- Kaduna

They started the tribal and religious politics but all attempt is to label Obi Igbo candidate

Shame on them.

Anyone telling us to vote APC after their colossal failure, Imagine another 8 years.

It shall not be well with them.

OBJ warned Nigeria not to re-enforce FAILURE

See images from the event

It would become delusional to continue to say Peter Obi does not have structure.

INEC wont count structure, they will count votes and a month to election, I reckon that the campaign will be that people should vote and stay to defend their vote

Benue was lit today for Obi.

See the pic my friend took.

Ok

How are we sure it's not forged