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HIGHESTPOPORI:
Peter Obi left office without any single corruption baggage,and people wonder while the people love him and want him as President

What of the N200m monthly drop off found in the boot of his aide’s car, the fact that gra Ikeja property was purchased while he was a governor, the fact that he instructed the md of fidelity bank to collect money from Dasuki, that he put government money in a company his family had interests, that he did not conduct local govt elections for his entire tenure and never accounted for the local govt allocations for that period, etc etc.

In any event, assuming but not conceding that he is not corrupt, he certainly is not competent. He has nothing to show for him tenure as governor of Anambra. A corrupt man who delivers is 100% better than a “clean” man who has no idea how to govern.

We are not electing a president to put money in the bank while roads need to be built or to follow his driver to the petrol station to make sure he didn’t inflate the petrol bill by N10k.

helinues:
He could have just said Remo state because adding Ijebu to Remo is a political scam . Ijebu have always been sidelined by the Remo when it comes to political decisions from Ijebu East

The irony is Remo was previously politically/administratively under ijebu. As a kid growing up they were referred to and refered to themselves as ijebu-remo. It was one of the many Ijebus towns. I don’t know his formal title today but growing up he was known as the akarigbonof ijebu-remo. This recent reference/classification of themselves as “Remo” or “remoland”is to the best of my consciousness something that started or gained momentum after the return to democracy just like Ibos now want to be known as Igbo. If you look as old newspapers, official archives etc, you will see they were always called ijebu-remo. I think the emancipation from the political control of the ijebu was spurred by the emergence of Awolowo as the eminent politician in yoruba land (and the remo mafia as I call them) and the dropping of the ijebu and asserting of their independence a natural consequence. On this last sentence I am just speculating. Although when I think about all the “ijebu” kings back in the day, the 2 that always stood out were the Awujale and the akarigbo….so I guess there is a story there.

Having said that all the people I knew growing up who would tell you they are from ijebu-remo, I suddenly find out they are actually from Ishara, Iperu, Shagamu, Ikenne etc and unlike proper ijebu towns/villages they don’t have and have never had the ijebu as a prefix. So I suspect ijebu-remo as a name was likely an administrative creation of colonial rule.

Like I said it’s all a political relevance/ vote buying propaganda. Nobody is creating any state.

My own is that he should name the 2 sisters.

helinues:
It's hypocritical of USA to be accusing Nigeria of having force labour system.

There is no evidence of such system in Nigeria. The Eastern Congo mine, majority of the companies using minor to do force labour are from USA, but they can never see such kind of a thing

Modified: To those saying I didn't read the article, didn't same USA accuse Nigeria of forced labour just some months ago, that didn't work, it's now goods from China . Make una dey take time to be comprehending my comments

The first town crying from Usa was Chinese funding the terrorists, till today, it's yet to be substantiated

Then Christian persecution, that also didn't sell

They initially came up with Nigeria having a child labour system, it was a joke talk with no response, now it's increasing the tariffs from the goods from Chinese . How many America companies are operating in China? Where is the likes of Apple operating from and who are the workers

What really happened is that the Supreme Court declared his previous tarrifs illegal. This is just the typical Trump mago mago (I.e crooked, deceitful, lying, not abiding by the law) to reinstate the tarrifs using any means available. Trump will impose tarrifs on countries for having too much sex if that’s what it will take to get his tarrifs. America is broke, they need money badly by any means necessary..

I put money in the bank, I did not have a house.

If not that we have a dull population, these are signs that people like these have no business being a governor.

You don’t know how to deploy resources better than to put it in a bank, you couldn’t build a house for yourself and you are entrusted with managing the resources of a state? Are we then surprised they were owing salaries? This is why we see so many governors establishing airlines and building flyovers. They don’t know how to deploy resources, they have no business being governors.
It’s not a crime to own a house. It’s certainly not a virtue to stand on a pulpit and shout that at 50 you didn’t own one!

helinues:
He could have just said Remo state because adding Ijebu to Remo is a political scam

Nobody is creating any state in Nigeria. Whether Remo, ijebu-Remo, Remo-Ijebu, Anioma or any other of the vote buying false hope selling political machinations.

helinues:
Dead Before Arrival ( DBA)

Arrival ke?

Dead before birth DBB

I am not a fan of Bwala but Seun is looking more and more unprofessional, unintelligent and quite frankly nauseating which every episode of politics today!

He asks the most mundane, dumb, and unintelligent questions. He seems to think he is an entertainer not a journalist.

If you want to see a journalist ask mundane irrelevant questions and crack dry jokes thinking he is funny…….just watch any episode of politics today.

favor914:
Abubakar Atiku & his boy Gringory Obi are Frustrated.

They don’t realize they are Tinubu’s biggest campaigners. Every time they open their mouths, the people whose votes they need think to themselves, these ones are not an option, make we dey manage Tinubu dey go!

They don’t seem to understand that when you are in opposition, your audience annd messaging are neutrals and supporters of the ruling party. If you continue with the low level
Messaging that your supporters like you will only appeal to your supporters. However you are in opposition because their votes are not enough. If the votes of the low level audience were enough, you’d already be in power.

Atiku no get sense at all. Maybe dementia is beginning to worry him.

They captured the terrorists’ families as leverage. The terrorists knew the game was up and they were surrounded. The terrorists had no choice but to release them. Does he expect the army to storm the place in such circumstances? Do you storm the den when the kidnappers realize they are cornered and have no way out and risk a shootout or do you say to the terrorists we have your relatives, release the victims? Is it that the kidnappers got away? So even when the kidnappers have surrendered until you storm the place for the cameras you have not rescued?

Is this the kind of reasoning they want to govern with?

You begin to wonder if they are not the people fueling the terrorism because they are clearly not happy with good outcomes!

Atiku and that Ibe never watch movie before? Na so FBI and SWAT dey storm bank when robber don agree to surrender and release hostages? So because the armed robbers realising there is no way out released hostages, therefore it wasn’t the FBI or SWAT that rescued them?

edlion57:
She will win,first female NBA president

Children who don’t know their history.

Flangelo12:
I heard MTN go around the world building roads.

Some of these people are just lacking in intelligence or fundamentally driven by bitterness or hatred. Whose money is the differed tax that MTN used to construct the road? Instead of giving credit to the Buhari administration who conceived the idea of asking cash rich mega corporations to help build roads and recover their monies by reducing their future taxes, they attack the govt.

Compare and contrast:

A road costs say 100biilion 10 years ago, the govt doesn’t have the cash.

Govt a: we do t have the money so let’s save the small money we have in the bank.

Govt b: hey you MTN, Dangote, BUA etc, you people have plenty cash, help us build this road at N100b and we will pay you back by deducting it from your taxes over 10 years plus interest.

Today that road costs N400-500b to build.

The citizens of Govt a have no road and the money he supposedly “saved” has been chopped by the next administration and the road he was saving to build is now 400b! That’s why govt A has nothing to campaign on except insults…..show workings for 8 yrs in office……nothing to show!

Govt b has built a road that would have cost 400b today for N100b by reducing its tax income by a mere N10-15b a year.

According to them the man who saved in an inflationary environment is better that the man who found a way to build a badly needed road.

This man is pathetic!

You parked wrongly at the airport and your car was clamped and you are shouting what of the others, don’t you know who I am? Tomorrow you will start shouting a new Nigeria is possible under you!

This is what you call playing to the gallery. Like when you ask someone to submit his application but you know he can’t get the job but if you told him not to bother, or appear not to be “helping”, you will become the villain. So you make great effort to let him/her know you are fighting for them o even though you know it will come to nothing.

greatiyk4u:
Simply allow Free and fair election and every loser will openly and happily accept defeat

Your idea of free and fair election is an election where you present a nationally unelectable candidate like Obi, people do not vote for him except his kinsmen but he is declared the winner. Anything else to you is rigged! Your idea of free and fair is when Obj gets 90% in SE and wins Lagos. Others can get 1% in SE but when Obi gets 1% in Katsina it is not free and fair!

Nonsense!

greatiyk4u:
Since it's the turn of the South as he claimed, is Tinubu the best a whole southern Nigeria can offer?

He is not but he will win again because he is better that the alternatives. It’s one thing to attack but then you must now present a better alternative. That ab-initio, is why Tinubu would always defeat Obi.

I have said this many time on Nairaland since 2022, I have no problem with you not liking Tinubu, he has his flaws but present a better alternative. You don’t sack a driver who can drive but has issues and then replace him with someone who can’t drive!

The opposition especially the Ibos supporting Obi wasted 4 years backing a man who can’t drive. He may be your man but the rest of the country whose votes you need are not buying what you are selling.

I have said this many times. If a politician/party is unpopular and yet in elections, turnout is low, it is a reflection of the opposition! It means people would rather sit at home that vote vote the alternative. It means despite their disaffection with the incumbent, they would rather manage him, stay at home not vote for him than come out to vote for the alternative.

Either way low turnout says more about the opposition. That you cannot inspire a disaffected and suffering electorate to vote out the incumbent and vote for your candidate!

edogu:
But there're some people with the same degree earning more. It's not just about the degree but what you can offer and nature of job.

The point is the standards have dropped that employers now routinely ask for degrees for jobs that 40yrs ago they dare not. 40yrs ago, no Nigerian employers would dare ask for a degree for this role. 1) because is a low level administrative/clerical role beneath the level of a graduate and 2) 40yrs ago if you had “O” levels, the standard of education was such that with “O” levels you were suited to perform administrative and clerical roles.

edogu:
Abroad this abroad that. This is not abroad. We should learn to appreciate organisations that create and provide jobs. It's not easy to operate one and at the same create job in Nigeria.

My friend the point is you are a glorified clerk with your Nigerian degree. It’s not about abroad, even here in Nigeria you will apply for proper jobs but you won’t get it because you are a product of a mushroom university competing with people who actually went to sound schools.

If you are happy earning N150k a month after 4 years in university, that’s fine. However in this same Nigeria some fresh graduates earn N2-5m a month. Is it not the same B.Sc? Why is their B.Sc getting them 2m a month and others can only get clerical work?

This is what most graduates in Nigeria have been reduced to. Abroad these are jobs are for school leavers with 3 “o” levels. This is what the CEO of Monie point was talking about. Most Nigerian graduates won’t make the grade for proper graduate level jobs and will have to settle for effectively what are clerical jobs.

So think twice when you waste your life in a useless university course from a poor university in the name of collecting degree. Most Nigerians would be better if spending the 4 years they wasted at university learning a trade or a skill.

In any event the trajectory of the world is that even many properly educated graduates will struggle to get jobs as AI makes their roles redundant…..talk less those who graduated from a poor system.

Streetinvestor2:
Is he not an igbo man so why should he condem baifra.
How many northerners condemned arewa
How many Yorubas condemned oduduwa.
So Igbos should condem thr identity because of drug baron

You guys should take a break and engage your dormant brains if they haven’t packed up.

The difference between Biafra, Arewa and Oduduwa is that Biafra is the one actively pursuing secession. It is not about identity but about secession. You cannot support secession and want to be president of the same country you are actively supporting secession from. Ko le work!

That is the 1st fundamental flaw with the Biafra movement. You are stuck in no man’s land, you won’t get the Biafra and the rest of the country won’t trust you to lead them. From those whose brains are still working, it is an intellectually deficient and politically suicidal position for an entire tribe to take. It is also suicidal for a presidential aspirant from that region to never have dissociated himself from such agitations talk less make comments suggesting he sees nothing wrong and the leader of IPOB should be released.

Once the US is involved especially under Trump, just know your are not not playing in a fair game.

Cheats!

Honestly we need to ban governments getting involved in pilgrimages whether Christian or Muslim. Don’t they have associations?

Marriage is a blessing ONLY if you are married to a good woman. Otherwise it is the worst decision you will ever make and can ruin you! If you can’t find a good woman stay single!

DatNiggaDaz:


You want a Nationalistic representation and you are mentioning Adire and Ankara.

That is thesame thing they did when the Speedy man from USA came to Nigeria and they wanted to give him a parapo Name and he ran away from the Lagoon

Adire and Ankara should never even be a Suggestion. Why do these people from the SW likes to paraporize anything that does not belong to them ?

Leave the NYSC uniform the way it is. Nothing can be more National than that. Anything you people touch, you set ablaze destr*ying

This is why public officers should be trained in public speaking. Even I as a yoruba man, I was appalled by his comment. I saw the interview and thought to myself, what a reckless comment and terrible policy of true! All he had to do was say we will use local materials and if he mentioned Ankara, he must then also mention materials from other regions and tribes because you cannot adopt a cloth from one tribe as a national uniform.

They withdrew their troops deployed to the lake Chad area is not the same as they have withdrawn their troops from
Nigeria.

So called educated Nigerians must learn to read and understand.

Having established some sort of presence in Nigeria those perpetual war mongers are never leaving.

budaatum:
And no one said dreaming is talent and or opportunity or even ambition, but that does not mean one should not aspire to try to improve one's self and lot!

You might not achieve what you aspire to be but I'm certain you'd be better of for trying than not trying at all.

My comments in this thread are specifically about the BS line: “you can be anything you want”. It may be said with encouragement and good intent but it is a blatant lie for 99% of the population.

More realistic is “you are free to embark on any path/ endeavors you wish, but there is no guarantee of success or happiness” That brings a reality check and causes the person to ask themselves if this is actually the best path as opposed to leading people astray Pie in the sky dreams. By using the word “can” you are subconsciously assuring them of success even if that path is not for them.

If you recognize someone has the potential in a specific area, you can say “you can be a great actor, lawyer teacher politician” etc but nobody “can” be “anything they want” in any field.

dragunov:
So they should leave the cities and towns unmanned because Nigeria wants to fight terrorists and bandits in the forests? Haba!!

Policemen guarding a real estate company is exactly the type of abuse of men in uniform the withdrawal was supposed to address. It’s exactly why there are not enough policemen fighting insecurity even in the towns and cities.

That’s why private security companies exist.

I thought the police had already been withdrawn to fight insecurity?

This country, each time you hear they have banned okada, clearing refuse, withdrawn policemen, demolishing houses obstructing canals, banned tinted windows, banned police from check points, you will ask yourself if you were dreaming when you saw the same announcements many times in the past.

budaatum:
Why would you not be able to learn fashion and design?

Do you perhaps subscribe to casualobserver's theory that one can't learn what one sets one's heart to?

Do a Gemini search for "learning cybersecurity" and tell me which of the steps you have already taken.

What do you farm?

Correction: that’s not what I said. What I said is that just because you have the desire/dream to be something does not mean you have the talent, opportunity or intangible qualities (eg luck, personality, location, contacts etc) required to fulfill that dream. As such this idea put forward by floozies that you can be anything you want is largely a selling falsehoods based on using examples of exceptions as the rule.

Basically because you have an ambition does not mean the universe and your unique circumstance/probabilities favour a successful outcome. In such circumstances, those telling you that you can be anything you want are not helping you.

esnbrutality:
But Lere Olayinka Published a contestants details and you all cheered abi?

Peter Obi should sue INEC and based on that alone , they will immediately show what TINUBU submitted.

Una dey ment. Una think say 2023 na 2027 abi??

Lere is a private individual and he is being sued for his actions.

Try to understand the concept of officialdom. A govt agency cannot act in the same manner as an individual. Let me caveat that because we behave anyhow in Nigeria….A government agency is not supposed to behave with the same looseness as an individual.

INEC can’t just publish certificates because you want them. They operate within the electoral act which does not give them the power to.