Penguin2: The Organized Private Sector (OPS) made up of the Nigerian Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), and other similar bodies, are one of the strongest cabals in Nigeria that are rarely spoken of.
This body holds all the banks, Insurance companies, Telecom companies, etc, with millions of employees under their influence.
Sometimes ago, I heard it said somewhere that if the Organized Private Sector do not want you to win an election, you are going nowhere. While this is debatable, it is not far from the truth.
Having established the sphere of influence of the OPS, let’s now go into the crux of this piece - who do you think the OPS will support for the presidency in the 2023 presidential election?
Is it Tinubu?
Tinubu was governor of Lagos for 8 years; everyone knows about that. And I think his only relationship with the OPS came from when he was governor since Lagos is the economic nerve centre of the country. But that was it. Before and after his governorship, Tinubu is not known to have owned any business that made him a member of any of these bodies which would make him understand the needs of these bodies. If anything, the administration of Tinubu introduced a lot of taxes which suffocates businesses; no matter how we want to argue about how imperative the introduction of those taxes are.
Is it Atiku?
Like Tinubu, Atiku has no much affiliation with the OPS except for his time as Vice President of Nigeria and his ownership of Intels, a company that handles shipping of oil or so, which he has now divested from. Atiku also owns the American University in Adamawa but I don’t know if proprietors of schools are part of the OPS (people who know better should inform us).
Is it Peter Obi?
Of the 3 frontline candidates, Peter Obi is the only one who has been, and might still be, a member of the OPS. Having been Chairman of Fidelity Bank and sat on the board of directors of another bank, Obi is clearly sunken into the OPS. Again, being a major importer in Nigeria, something his traducers seldom use against him, Peter Obi is also a member of importers and exporters association of Nigeria (if there’s any such body). But what his being an importer means is that he understands the pains importers pass through to source forex and to clear their goods when they eventually land; not talking about high excise duties that these importers pay just to clear their goods.
So, from the foregoing, it’s quite obvious that Peter Obi is not only a friend of the OPS, he’s part of the OPS, if not part of the board of directors.
But this is Nigeria. That Peter Obi is part of the OPS is not a guarantee that the body would support him. So many other factors might make the body choose to support another presidential candidate like Tinubu or Atiku. Worthy to mention that it is also not likely that they will all swing to one person as interest and motivation might bring about divergence of opinion and choices amongst them.
But who do you think they will support?
Penguin is a bird of reason.
They will hedge their bets and support all three sides, because 2023 is up there in the air. Tinubu would've had a clear shot had his biggest supposed ally not been a dyed-in-the-wool tribal bigot.
At the end of the day, blood debt between every Fula and his fellow kin, will trump any type of party affiliation, and that's what Afenifere were trying to explain to him a few years ago when he insisted on selling his own tribesmen as slaves to the Fula.
How old was the cursed bastard anyways, cos he prolly croaked due to drug-induced cardiovascular accident...all the idots snivelling about Tinubu having used him are just being typically idots, as usual
He died as a result of his own wayward lifestyle
Meanwhile the Ayobo LCD woman caught a break One man's downfall is another (wo)man's upliftment, since the APC insist on playing governance as a zero-sum game
Yoruba people no wan hear that o, they prefer the congestion at Apapa ports, the corruption, delays and inefficiency there, the traffic hold-up on the access roads along with the robberies, accidents, pot-holes and police brutality.
ExAngel007: Nigerian Caregiver Jailed In UAE For Staying 30-minutes In The Bathroom Leading To Her Student Cutting His Ear
A Nigerian lady, Patience Sopuru Davidson who is a caregiver in the United Arab Emirates was reportedly handed a jail sentence for alleged negligence.
A Twitter user @Chetexxx5 , who claimed to be a family member disclosed this to Dubai Police on Monday, November 14, 2022.
According to Chetaxxx5, her younger sister who works as a caregiver at Al Ain Center for Care and Rehabilitation Center of Disabled in Abu Dhabi, was sentenced to one month in jail for overstaying in the bathroom which led to one of her students cutting his ear.
Sopuru was to be released on October 15, 2022 but they have not heard from her since then.
the tweet reads.
The Dubai Police responded to the tweets, asking Chetaxxx5 to send a DM.
God will surely punish your entire generation you this misbegotten degenerate bottom-feeder.
By the blood of all who have lost their lives to the negligence & complicity of this administration, may you never know true progress in your life, may you continue to feed on the cursed scraps from Tinubu's table for all eternity
Ejebleje: I pity you. Search Francis Igweze here on nairaland and see whose contact you're asking for.
On a more serious note, people should stop looking for free shit anywhere, and especially online. No stranger going to offer you valuable stuff for free or at 50, 20 percent discount simply because they love humanity or wanna be your friend. The world outside your family circle (and sometimes within it too) is full of greedy, hungry people who will take your money and possbly kill you too if you protest too much. The sooner some gullible Nigerians understand this the better. There is no sweet deal laying out there on the street waiting to be discovered by you.
kenny714433: Commissioning a mere 2KM road with so much fanfare.
Nawa o
How do I even start comprehending the lies that a 2KM road connects 32 communities? These Nigerian politicians and their futile attempts to lower my IQ.....
I always knew Soludo to be a foolish dude right from his disastrous tenure at the helm of CBN. Look how he just turned himself into a pariah amidst his own brethren
Come next year, the governorship title won't be able to protect him....he just stripped himself naked for purposes of cheap vendetta.
Conner44: Yeye wussup na e get one guy wey dey call himself ‘Corto’ wey don dey find my maat since
Hafa? Should I DROP IT ?
At least make we liven up this place small, ahn ahn, imagine one whole week don pass and the thread move only 3 pages . . . Na jazz?
E get as e be nah
Why are you so useless, you've been sniffing around my post-history for more than a month running? May God punish you with that your face like hungry hyena
What is pitiable here? He's well dressed, eats fine (obviously)...dude is just high. If you don't like that you can waste your money on rehab for an over-the-hill reprobate like him
Naijaisshitho: Another thread to show how Nigerian men are useless. This can never happen in a saner clime like USA or Canada. Just because a woman didn't tell you she has kids From previous marriage, you decided to cut it off? For someone who's living in Nigeria, is he supposed to have a choice? This thread reeks of nonsense
Few minutes to wedding, Nigerian man calls off his wedding with his fiancee and demands for return of the bride price, after discovering that the bride had 2 kids already and hide it from him.
The bride groom could be heard shouting at the top of his voice, asking her mother inl-aw why she kept him in the dark and the mother in-law said it wasn't her fault but that of the bride who never wanted to let him know.
Apparently the bride had thought she could keep it as a secret but it blew up minutes to their wedding and the groom was heartbroken.
It is always in the interest of all, that all parties come clean during courtship, tell your partner the truth.
I just discovered Nairaland few weeks ago and I've read so many informative things and people's story. Some get advised and some get bashed when they drop their stories here, I hope I wouldn't.
Let me cut to the chase.
I'm 19, I'm a virgin and I'm a 300lvl student. I have a boyfriend that is 15years older than I am and he's sexually active. We met on online. We've known each other for seven months. We both love each other really well, even with the ups and downs that we've had in our relationship. This relationship is a long distance relationship. Now the thing is my boyfriend who is sexually active hasn't had sex for almost a year and lately he's been craving for sex. Sometimes I'll tell him I'm ready to have sex and other times I change my mind because of fear. I've been undecided about having sex. I thought about having sex with him maybe it'll make our bond stronger. He isn't married, he has no kids but he says he wish to marry me as soon as I graduate from the university. To be a virgin in a university isn't easy, there are temptations everywhere. Sometimes I get so tired of being a virgin and just want to have sex but other times I just want to keep it. One of my friends who is also my age had sex in 2019 and she has been sexually active ever since, she told me sex with males aren't really worth it, that if I'm ready I should try having sex with my gender because it's freaky.
I need advice please, should I have sex with this guy and hope that he'll marry me. Or I shouldn't and just be patient. He coming to meet me in two weeks time.
Don't do it with that guy, he won't marry you! Once he taste your puna he'll be gone
Send me a dm instead & let me teach you a thing or two about relationship & great sex
NaijaCowFarm: Anyone against Christ is an antichrist. Since Tinubu does not recognize Christians and had to be running on a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a secular country like Nigeria, what other name do you call such a person? An Antichrist.
Who is an antichrist?
In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist refers to people prophesied by the Bible to oppose Jesus Christ and the Christian faith and substitute themselves in Christ's place before the Second Coming. The term Antichrist is found five times in the New Testament, solely in the First and Second Epistle of John
CitynewsNG: Osinbajo apologized to Tinubu at Akeredolu's mother Burial in Owo town --- Video footage of a funny and controversial scene had been trending online following the Vice President's speech at Ondo State Governor mother's Burial, where Prof Yemi Osinbajo apologized for missing out APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu from the list of protocols he greeted and acknowledged while about making his speech.
The V. P said in the one and half minutes video that ;
"Before I go on, I have made a very big error, I have left out the presidential candidate of our great party the APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Emilokan.
He continued," Asiwaju Bola I'm simply sorry, you are sitting right to me, not just sitting right to me but I'm looking at him. But I honour you and welcome you to this event..."
This video has been generating ripples with people asking if this is intentional or an indeed an error or the VP is still wallowing in the fate of his presidential bid loss to his former boss.
Politics › Re: Tinubu: First Lady, Aisha Buhari, Shows Off Her Jagaban Logo (Photo) by Corto: 6:49pm On Nov 17, 2022
One man's downfall is another (wo)man's upliftment, since the APC insist on playing governance as a zero-sum game
you're something else niggã
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