FreeGlobe:
I predicted eselu may not withstand the financial muscles of Andy Ubah and Stella Oduah combined but lets see how this would end. They shouldn't just allow Ekwunife to win central

Sometimes, I wonder if this Anambra South Senatorial seat is a birthright for the Ubas. Dr Ubah,( is he now a Professor ) of Political Sc dept UNN, I love that man 1999-2003
Dr Andy, a former assistant to OBJ (since 2007)
Now Chief Chris
All brothers
I am not jealous just wondering

Zonacom:
This PDP practice of Fielding more than one candidate for senatorial elections in Anambra needs to be stamped out. Why should both Mrs Okadigbo and Stella be campaigning for Anambra north senatorial seat under PDP? APGA needs to protest against this silly practice.

So you caught the game. It gives them an advantage because with two men each with a pool of supporters campaign side by side brings a larger number eventually under the same party. Even when a candidate is sidelined for another few days to the election , the likelihood that the supporters will remain with the party is very high
In 2013, the courts determined that the authentic Anambra PDP chapter was the one led by Ejike Oguebego following which his faction fielded the candidate for the guber. Ken Emeakayi's faction was declared illegal
Now again the same suit is resurfacing. Is that how our Judiciary operates? Suits like that should not even be entertained, but I see it is pure business for some people

Gamechanger:


The less than 15% lie or mistake by you have done the job. How can write such a thing and expect informed people to read on. The voters turnout in that election was about 27%. Just add the result of the parties and divide by 1.8m times 100..

@Gamechanger. My 15% wasn't an oversight. Let me explain
On sight estimation of the figures. Obiano had about 180,000 Ngige and Nwoye got about 90,000 each, Ubah got about 40,000. For my eligible voters, I considered a population of about 2.5 million which had the majority of the subset who presented at the polling stations at wards with their cards whose names where either omitted or swapped to a distant ward.
Now if INEC decided in its perverted(permit my usage of that word) wisdom to alter the voters register barely a week to the election just few months after it had announced it had weeded the register of phantom voters which gave Anambra about 2.4m. A week to the election they came again with a figure of about 1.8m and they could not paste the revised register in most of the wards. In fact, in my ward the list only came with the adhoc staffs on the morning of the accreditations. I am sure INEC blamed computer for such a tattered register
Will you then not work your denominator of total eligible voters on the population that came out to vote with their cards but were either told of the new development of a week old revised register? That to me are the eligible voters with which I derived the voter apathy syndrome
My concern is to identify the causes of voter apathy (with reference to the past incidence ) and the solutions to it. Without dwelling much in the past, let me quickly recall the events of the supplementary elections with the expected harvest of voters in the Idemili North axis. Previously, we worked with a voting population of about 180,000 distributed across over 200 units in that area, but by the time of supplementary elections a week after the disputed elections INEC again its wisdom had dropped this figure to about 100,000. Now for you to know that apathy towards the credible conduct of elections is progressives like APC. Most of the wards had just an average of 20 voters showing up, with some having just 4 persons people went about their normal business
I am not trying to indict INEC wholly in the high prevalence of voters apathy, however, any event that will reduce the credibility of an election is in itself a major culprit. Hopefully, with the shift in date of the elections, INEC should have more time to plan for its exigencies and logistics ensuring that the PVCs are in the hands of legitimate voters
to be Contd

The issue is here again, this time with a much uglier presentation.
What issue? Low turn out of voters
Anambra State is among the States with the highest percentage of eligible voters who are yet to collect their PVC. Most persons are disinterested and this may not be unconnected with the way and manner INEC and the script writers conducted the 2013 gov elections in the state.
Voters left their business in different parts of the State, came out in their numbers waited under the Sun while the script writers thought it best to either completely disorganize the register or withdraw it from some areas. Nnewi and Idemili North were worst hit. The result was announced, rejoinders followed. Less than 15% of the voting population of the state determined the results. A phenomenon which many of us knew would set a wrong precedent
Next Chief Victor Umeh was to speak, according to him on Silverbird tv, there was nothing wrong with that he posited that even when only a tiny fraction of voting population voted it does not invalidate or discredit an entire process
Before him Chief Ubah of LP, he spoke almost coming to tears that election rigging where people will come out to vote with their cards only to be told they registered elsewhere, Somebody who registered at Nkwo ward is told to check his/her name at Ichi ward II will have consequences in future
Enters PDP publicity Secretary, Chief Metuh via telephone, he declared the entire process was okay and re-affirms the faith of the electorate in the conduct of the election. Feeders had it Olisah was nowhere near Anambra during the election
A very low turn out of voters makes hijackings of ballot boxes, thumbprinting of excess ballot papers in the comfort of Hotel suites much easier for election riggers. It may favour one yesterday but today it can be in favour of another.
How do we handle the increasing voter apathy?
To be Contd.

In addition to providing police Booth, one issue on my mind is concerning the mobility support given to the police by State Governments not just in Anambra State
Can't imagine a 2010 hilux that is just about 6 years old looking so badly handled like nobody cares. Is it because it was 'dashed'
Those vehicles can't chase a 1998 Sienna under the command of robbers without losing its dynamics
We can continue in that wastage when am even looking forward to completing a number whereby every village has a police van strategically located within it.
Culture of maintenance must be imbibed by our police officers Govt should assist them with workshops if that could help. This carnage is too much

Schematics:
Nobody talks about Obj today but Jonathan.

No preceding govt is discussed in Isolation. There is always room to draw comparison especially when things bordering on policies are brought up. Such comparisons help people in rating any successive govt. So today GEJ and OBJ can be compared, in the course of such comparisons uncomplimentary remarks can arise.
There is no point hating anybody. Obi comes across as a nice man who I will not fail to accord respect on that premise i.e. I'll greet him with a smile (you know) and talk with him respectfully but on the issue of what he did and what he didn't do with Anambra I will not be deceived
My views

cjrane:


Bro,
I am not here to debate well known facts. I guess Obiano was a former Senator, House of Rep. or even Local government chairman that we all knew about him before he beat even Peter Obi's SSG Oseloka Obaze, Mrs Ekwunife or Soludo to become the gubernatorial candidate?
Ngige even used to make a mockery of Obiano wearing Obi's image while campaigning to be governor.
Obiano himself said he used to read about the aspirants on newspapers and hoped for the best man to prevail. He didn't know he would be that man.

He said so but when the chips are down the Governors anointed will 'everly' win the primaries. Don't ask me how that is possible
Ask this candidate to withdraw interest, force the delegates to tow a line, compensate the others with appointment and cash. Then the winner takes it all

cjrane:


Peter Obi was not a saint. He doesn't have to be.
Gov. Obiano simply became a governor because Anambra trusted whomever Peter Obi endorsed to succeed him. It says something about the man Peter Obi.

Does he agree he is not a saint
I disagree with the last paragraph. Obiano didn't become Governor simply for that your reason above. He was fought from with APGA the issue was he just came from 'nowhere' to usurp the coveted seat of APGA Gov aspirant from the foundation members
I for one, did not trust any candidate Obi anointed although I was convinced that such a candidate will win because of Federal might and interference ab initio. My main consolation at that time was that no such Governor who wants to make a difference in the State will honour any criminal agreement made with Obi.

Zonacom:

Why must Obiano plaster his picture on all of his projects in Anambra? Its not cool at all. Even roads undergoing minor refilling of potholes normally have a small sign post with the inscription "willy is working" on them. Its embarrassing if you ask me.

That reminds me of Theord Orji's pictures everywhere in Abia State
The most disgusting is the issue of his image and that of late Ojukwu on Ankara worn by his assistants , imported from the previous administration
I feared it could have significance in metaphysics. I will contact somebody in OOO to help explain the suspicion

Schematics:
This guy has gone far beyond what every day Nigerian governors does. Nigerian governors should come and under-study this dude..

Obiano will not cease to amaze me with his brilliant ideas. He has never looked like a man who is after some cheap projects just to score a point. That Police booth concept

FreeGlobe:
Hahahaha, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has promised to write a comprehensive article on the "third class performance of Peter obi."


https://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=166679

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I already know that Peter Obi's performance was exaggerated by his paid image laundering group. Most of his highly rated performances are still in the Plan which unfortunately accumulated dusts in his shelf while he tried to outsmart himself
I am also aware he can't write. The only article he wrote in recent times about Buhari and age (I shared in the sentiment) lacked class. The editors did a poor or difficult job with it, there were many direct importation of Igbo expressions into English
So Whatelse will Soludo tell me about a man so cunning like Peter?
However, I think the Professor should wait till after elections, the timing of his expositions made it look like he was hired

Kenai:

Mehn, if you ask me, the debate is epic.
One clearly did his research prior to the debate, while the other relied on emotional rhetoric.
Which of the two am I referring to? Well, watch the video and see.
Trust me, you won't regret it. Hahaha!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSrIHmZXIzk

The debate was interesting, I think the time allotted was too small both men would have loved to say more, they are both passionate about their candidates
I would love to see both GMB and GEJ on such a platform let me quickly add that the best debater is just a product of acquired or innate skills which does not always translate to performance if elected
GEJ administration is slow in performance he could have done somethings much rapidly as expected by the average Nigerian. However, Nigeria is a big Case and I think part of the compounding is as a result of long years of military or pseudo military rule (with OBJ in mind) where some vital decision affecting us is not intellectually debated or in cases where they are debated it is not without the overbearing influence of the executives as we had during OBJ pseudo Democratic rule. President Jonathan has largely allowed debates on his policies with less interference on the legislature and/or the judiciary and that inadd has allowed a relatively credible elections
The fact that Buhari truncated an evolving democracy paving way for close to 15 years of military rule and another 8 years of pseudo military rule morally disqualifies him from seeking to be elected to rule Nigeria. Anybody giving him the impression that he's gonna rule this country again is at best elevating him to imaginary god of greek mythology which in actual sense gives one a passive feeling of greatness

Chigold101:



mind you all the projects Obiano has been commissioning have been fully paid by Obi's government. So he cant even stop any of them.


I never ever worked for Obi because there are some parts of his life and governance I will never like...

Na you dey talk like this, I thought you know how govt projects works.
Obi did not fully PAY for all the projects he initiated before he left, he only mobilized his contractors collected his cut(commission). Some of the mobilizations were hugely unethical common sense will tell you that such mobilizations enabled him to get a fair cut as his time was drawing to an end
Further payements are made stage by stage and some of those projects were renegotiated. The issue of how much he left behind is highly contentious, he said over 70 billion in savings, I don't believe him one bit

Kenai:
It was very obvious, from reading Soludo's article, that the man is still hurt over the trick Peter Obi played on him during the Anambra elections in 2013.

Even the blind could see that. If he had wanted to address Peter Obi why did he not pin a different article for it. This one had an unusual style of writing presenting facts with intermittent bursts of attacks on persons widely believed to have done him wrong

BuddahMonk:
Most times you guys reason

Obi met a failed Anambra with everything in ruins:

Buddah, I am not trying to convince or force my opinion on you.
You spoke as though before Obi there was no Ngige. The real battle that was fought in Anambra was by Ngige and not Obi.
It was Ngige who made us realize there was money in the State.
You also spoke like Chime didn't fight any battles in Enugu. Chime's battles are somehow and I wouldn't like to go into too much details of the ones I know. But let me add that his battles nearly cost him his life and were enough to distract him from his set goals. You are not a kid so I don't need to remind you that battles brought down to your bedroom can unsettle a man. Are you forgetting that Chimaroke and the Ebeano herbalists were on his throat in his first 2 years in office
If you want history, subscribe and I will provide you with facts free of charge to help in your considerations

Chigold101:


Enugu the capital of Enugu is a project that was carried out by the whole south eastern (region) states.However, apart from Enugu town, no other town or place is as good as villages on Anambra state.
What is the difference between what Enugu gets and what Anambra gets

Actually Chime did very well in Enugu. Not that Obi did nothing But priority wise, if am to score them I will give Chime an A where Obi gets a C. Obi's performance was over bloated by his paid propagandists which unfortunately included some Catholic and Anglican priests.

You will not understand this now, but by the time Obiano had worked for 4 years, you acknowledge that Obi did little which was exaggerated. As a check, do you know that what Obiano received in the past one year is less than the average cash Obi got yearly in his 6-8 years spell. Can you spot the difference?

Obi got by far more money than Chime during the period under review owing to his closeness to the president which is good. And at a period when there was increased sharing of ECA and the rests
Chime's contractors are at work in the villages of Enugu, divided into Zones. Go to Udi, Oji -River, Nssuka they're close by the Catapillars are there working

wordcat:
The difference is clear

For Food Only a.k.a Fani Kayode and Mr Peter Adaobi acted like touts and hooligans, attacking Soludo from left, right and centre; reminding him how he lost Anambra State governorship election and how he wanted tenure elongation as CBN Governor instead of addressing the issues he raised.

Raise any issue against pdp and watch how they will term u a paid agent.

Will they go back now and come up with some tangible pertaining to what Prof Soludo said other than the rant of fani kayode?

More like issue based reply unlike replies from FFK and others. Nigerians still await PDP defense
Unfortunately, the anchor head for the rope of APC in the person of Gen Mohammed Buhari will not rule Nigeria again his past morally disqualifies him. Besides, he is yet to convince Nigerians that this, his inciting statements since 2007 and the born to rule mentality has nothing to do with the increased activities of terrorists who had sworn to make the country ungovernable for GEJ

melomelo:
Thank you Mr Obiano, if you like go sack your mother, as for me, i will vote for GEJ
i will vote for him to stop Tinubu from extending his dictatorship from Lagos state to federal
i will vote for him because Buhari, Atiku, Tinubu and others vowed to make nigeria ungovernable for him for winning 2011 election

You missed the point
APGA has no presidential candidate in fact, it adopted GEJ but for the good of the State it has its own local interest to protect

mankevo:
The implication is deep!
I know the average IQ of local voting population, by running a jingle on Radio and saying "vote umbrella for president and rooster for other electives..'' is dangerous especially to APGA. Uninformed ones will just recall Umbrella (first in the jingles) and flatly vote it for every elective posts, leaving APGA with the votes of the elite.
He may have other motive(s) though

That's the point
On the surface the jingle looks harmless, it takes a wise man to see it has a lot of subtle meaning. APGA is part of the election in Sen, Reps and State Houses of Assembly. It is widely believed that apart from the former governor's job as deputy camp. director for GEJ he's also working to ensure victory for some PDP candidates in those other areas and that was never part of the understanding reached with GEJ re-election bid.
And for an aid who was a part of the former administration to raise such jingle brings of the issue of whose interest he was serving

Obiano deserves commendation for re-visiting the State Workers remuneration. This will surely bring some relief to the workers considering the surging inflation rate

I have said it before that aids and PAs should be careful with the statements they make on behalf of their principals. Joe Uzodike of all people should know that before you make some statements let the principal, some other persons with the same goal analyse and edit such before it is released.
Me, personally thinks the sanction meted to Joe Martins Uzodike is as a result of his not defining in clear terms where his loyalty lies. Obi is no longer the Governor, if Obiano retained them to work with him they must be completely loyal to him and demonstrate it. Loyalty to one's master does not make one an enemy to one's former master. It is just a job that loyalty and commitment can't be sidelined
This should sound as warning to other PAs, SAs and whatever who were carried over from the previous administration
However, Obiano should show some mercy. Was Uzodike queried before now

When Amaechi issued the restraint, nobody will tell me he didn't know they will enter forcefully. I think all he wanted to do is to paint a picture of GEJ as dictator and Nyesom Wike as a rascal. That was all
The first question is if a local govt chairman restraints Amaechi or the State Govnt from using a stadium built by the LGA will Amaechi take it lightly
If there is a property in any State of the US and the mayor keeps Sheriff to prevent its use by anybody. Let's say Obama needs the property, the sheriffs will clear the moment FBI steps in. There is hierarchy, I don't see anything unconstitutional in this matter

FreeGlobe:

feelings or no feelings, he was not far from the truth. Losing election is not the end of life. Atleast Soludo is still more influential than obi. Peter obi has for the past weeks been writing thrash articles on national newspapers without being noticed but go and check twitter right now, Soludo is a trending topic. Everyone is reading his article. Do you know the damage this has done to Peter obi?

I couldn't read all of Prof's article, however, those who said he is nursing some ill feelings on a personal level towards Obi maybe right. I mean, how could he exonorate OBJ almost completely from the wrong choices Nigeria is battling with today. On a general note for those who understand what drives economies, neither Obi nor GEJ had done so well and Buhari can't do any magic under the prevailing circumstances. All those change talk is gibberish
Under a person like Buhari, when Labour unrests resume following the austerity measures he will not be open for negotiations, Strike actions will be indefinite and mean indefinite
Btw Buhari will never rule Nigeria again

Peter Obi could have easily gone down in memory as the best Governor of Anambra State, the reason is that he had a team of solid think tanks that adviced him on what to do with Anambra. His greed and hurry to become the richest dude in the State limited his implementation of the projects
The moment Goodluck added him to the economic team, I knew there was something amiss. My immediate impression was that corruption and money laundering will be phenomenal, here is somebody whose experience in banking was at a time when Bank Ex were specialist in siphoning raw cash. The unlucky CEOs were caught our man knew his onions in the business and always escaped the hook.
Anambra is different, Ezeife was made to return N300million in a now defunct bank to Anambra account in 1995. I have a strong belief that Obi's case will not be different and we talking of staggering billions this time

Although, I don't like Buhari's method, he will not win anyway, but somehow sometime Obi will be forced to make the returns to Anambra
For those saying he constructed roads over 90% of the roads he did at standard costs per Kilometer are laden with pot holes. The fiscal prudence of such roads is highly questionable

OdenigboAroli:
Eselu has a very poor educational background,and so he can't represent the great Omanbala. Being thuggish isnt same as being wise,articulate and collected. We have a formidable force in Dubem Obaze,Victor Umeh and Ndukwe that can pull any house down. In these three men you have experience,doggedness and intelligence. Thats all we need in the upper house . It will be wise for Chris to back off because he will just end up wasting his finances.

And those are your A list? Victor Umeh will get a good for the job from me and that's it

We reason differently, If I support a party and its candidates it does not in anyway prevent me from admitting that another party has a better candidate for a particular job maybe not openly to avoid anti-party activities
My expressions and sentiments will only be limited by things that will openly label me an anti party person . I knew a man who was an Eckist or something of that nature who was nomited for a job, who most of the front line churches kicked against the sentiment was mainly because he did not belong to the Church. Somehow, Abuja people insisted he must get the job. Guess what, without discrimination he has registered such a performance in that place everybody is full of praises for him including GEJ the last time he visited the est.

OdenigboAroli:
Eselu has a very poor educational background,and so he can't represent the great Omanbala. Being thuggish isnt same as being wise,articulate and collected. We have a formidable force in Dubem Obaze,Victor Umeh and Ndukwe that can pull any house down. In these three men you have experience,doggedness and intelligence. Thats all we need in the upper house . It will be wise for Chris to back off because he will just end up wasting his finances.

double post

themano:

Pls dont say what you re not sure of. The so called Hausas always send their A list to the Senate. Just go through their business or public service profiles or meet them in person. Chris Uba in tne Senate? Tufiakwa

My friend what are you not telling me about this A list. So to you and Odenigbo A list exists in APGA for this election
Well me I don't think like that. If I support a party and a its candidates it does not in anyway prevent me from admitting that another party has a better candidate for a particular job maybe not openly to avoid anti-party activities like I said, Federal reps should not be for the faint hearted and cowards
Business profile means nothing you of all people should know that. I insist without mentioning names that a good number of Ugwu Senators cannot defend those educational profiles but they are good in forcing their positions down through whatever means . Try find that clip of the debate where they hushed down the draft for the extension of emergency rule in parts of North East simply because they needed elections there

My dear lady Lady Halima remove your mind from politics before you go cry or come get high bp. Nobody will hand Nigeria over to your Daddy, not even Tinubu if he were to be in GEJ position
GEJ will never handover to GMB not even in the dream. If worse comes to worst, a neutral interim leader will emerge to mitigate the tension which your Father been part of the originators since 2007.
General Buhari will never rule Nigeria again. Never
That aside, he will not win ⅔ in 24 States it simply won't happen

asha80:
hehe that is if eselu can articulate that bill...anyway na Una know...just make Una no complain when his legendary thuggish way gets in the way of state development.

Should he win, that can't be an obstacle. Some of those Ugwu awusa Senators can't comprehend a simple English Sentence let alone deciphering the ingredients of a bill. They can't even speak proper English, our Primary School drop out traders at O'sha Market speak better. Watch Ait Parliament cable station and be amazed
All the Ugwu awusa Senators do very well is convince and woo Olosho which unfortunately and disgracefully has a high population of Igbo ladies doing that business in Abuja
What do they do, they employ a retinue of brilliant chaps who interpret and write the stuffs so the awusa will shout with it on the floor the next day

OdenigboAroli:


Are you really from Anambra? Sorry for my curiosity because you never come here,except when you wanna criticize Obi and Obiano and you sleep on the Enugu thread like your life depend on it.

lest I forget, I don't have a stake in Enugu thread maybe you mean someone else like Spider

asha80:
if you ask me Chris uba does not foot the bill one bit..i mean this is Chris uba we are talking here..in fact if you ask me if anambra really wants progress he is one of those agada gbachili uzo that anambra has to do away with or cage

That's the point. How are you sure he will not intimidate, harass and kidnap again. Possibly force the opponent to submit to defeat
Elections are not won only by fame for the good reasons. Some notorious guys win elections if may use that word

asha80:
hehe na Wao imagine people supporting Chris uba?the same Chris that orchestrated ngige's kidnap and subsequent burning of some buildings?have anambra south's interest at heart?..una get short memory ooo...be careful what you wish for

I am not giving him an outright support. Should we have a candidate with a good balance of toughness and solid education the person is good to go. I am saying my ideas of the character that should be a Senator or a Rep for the people who have suffered marginalization

OdenigboAroli:


Are you really from Anambra? Sorry for my curiosity because you never come here,except when you wanna criticize Obi and Obiano and you sleep on the Enugu thread like your life depend on it.

I was about quoting where you said all APGA candidates will win. So you have not dropped those your big dreams for attainable facts. So tell me what gives you such confidence
Elections are fews weeks away we shall see how it goes
Yes I don't like Obi that much and we hold that difference