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dauntless15:
pull who down exactly, why is everything a competition to you people, I was talking about my preferences, how is it pull him down, Nawa for you o bro.

dauntless15:
k, whatever you say, whatever and however you say it, just k

olaolaking:
My name is Ola. A patriotic citizen. I neither have affiliation with any political party nor have a candidate

History is often written by those who shout the loudest, not those who labored the longest. As many scramble to paint Nyesom Wike as the villain of the PDP’s 2023 failure, they conveniently forget one uncomfortable truth: without Wike, there might not even be a PDP to talk about today.

Let’s go back to 2015.
That year, the People’s Democratic Party suffered a catastrophic loss. After 16 years in power, the party was defeated by the APC at the national level. For many political players, that was the end. There was no ideology strong enough to keep them. No loyalty to a struggling party. They ran. They defected. They distanced themselves. The PDP was declared dead by many commentators.

But not by Wike.

The Man Who Refused to Flee
While others retreated, Nyesom Wike stood his ground. As a first-time governor in Rivers State, he could have stayed quiet, focused on local governance, and avoided the turbulence of opposition politics. But he didn’t.

He put his personal and political capital on the line. He financed, organized, protected, and mobilized the PDP when it became unpopular to even say the party's name in public. From convention crises to court cases, Wike was the engine room that kept the party functional when its national structures were in disarray.

Anyone who witnessed the court battles over national chairmanship, the attempted takeovers, and the series of factional warfares knows the truth. Without Wike’s resources, resilience, and courage, the PDP might not have survived those storms. The party's National Secretariat could’ve been a ghost house.

The Role of Ayo Fayose and the Gradual Transfer of Burden
Let’s also acknowledge that Wike wasn’t entirely alone in the early years after 2015. Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, another fearless southern PDP stalwart, stood by him. Together, they formed the backbone of the resistance against APC dominance. They were the two voices that roared when the rest of the PDP was whispering in fear.

But by the end of Fayose’s term in 2018, his political strength waned. He no longer had the state apparatus or federal relevance. The torch passed, fully, to Wike. And he carried it alone—for years.

From 2019 to 2022, Wike became not just the soul of the party, but its primary financier, mobilizer, and defender. He hosted meetings, held the ground in Rivers, and made the PDP a household name when other states were lost to APC dominance. Throughout Buhari's 8 years, the only audible voice from the opposition was from Wike

The Irony: Those Who Benefited Turned Against Him
And yet, when it came time for the PDP to choose its flag bearer for 2023, the same party that Wike had rescued—singlehandedly in many ways—refused him the ticket. Worse still, it refused to accommodate his interests or recommendations even after the primaries.

What followed was not betrayal from Wike. What followed was a deep disillusionment, the kind that comes when a man who nurtured a dying structure is told he’s no longer needed. When those who once knelt at your table now slam the door in your face.

Let’s Reframe the Conversation
Wike may be controversial. He may be confrontational. But one thing he is not, is a coward. In the darkest years of the PDP, he was its shield. He turned Port Harcourt into the party’s lifeline. While others sold out, he stood firm. While many were mocking the PDP’s collapse, he rebuilt it, brick by brick.

And now, those who couldn’t bear the weight of opposition are rewriting history—casting Wike as the problem, when for many years, he was the solution.

Give Credit Where It’s Due
You don’t have to agree with everything Wike has done. But if you are telling the story of the PDP between 2015 and 2022, and you leave out his name, you’re not writing history—you’re editing it.

The PDP may have failed in 2023. But it did not die in 2015—because Wike refused to let it.

dauntless15:
Las Las it'll become outdated and it won't matter how much it costs, nor would he drive all of them at same time, total number of cars I'd have is four, no matter how rich I get, an official luxury car, a sports car, a low key sedan, and a pickup truck or an off road vehicle, all for different reasons.

Morbeta11:
Long episode on top nothing

Factcheck0001:
oga u b liar


U can't use 250 to buy those things in 2012, I was in 300 level then


Meat for south west wey we no dey greedy na 50 naira then so tell me how much dem Dey sell meat for south east then?

I remember then na 70 naira beans, 100 naira bread, 50 naira meat, 3 pure water we Dey use 250 buy then so how can u use 250 to buy plenty ofe rubbish, plenty meat, beans n macaroni

U think u are talking to kids here right?

olawaleatanda:
they're the same

We are growing and improving brr

At least USA and UK aren't complaining

Something of One dollar in USA that time is now 10 dollar now

Konquest:
You're incorrect. It's NOT a conjured information published in book format. History has to be put in the right context and there's NOTHING to be totally ashamed of even if aspects of ones history isn't entirely noble. It is what it is.

Once you get to know the ancestral origins and language of the Igalas being "Yoruboid" [just like the Itsekiris] with part Yoruba ancestry going back to about 700 years ago, the etymology or origin of the word "Igbo" becomes CLEARER.

So, the word "Igbo" is a pure Yoruba language word meaning "BUSH or FOREST" and since 65% of Igala words are mutually intelligible with Yoruba language, the use of the word "ONIGBO" as a condescending word of contempt in the past for "slaves" OR "enslaved BUSH people" of the Ibo interior east of the river Niger isn't surprising. With the Igala conquests of non-indigenous Igala areas of what is now Enugu and Anambra States, they simply refered to the conquered "bush-dwelling or forest-dwelling tribes there with contempt as "ONIGBO" denoting "enslaved BUSH people" or "outcasts who engaged in cannibalism." The Benin-Edo called the enslaved got from the east of river Niger as "IGBON" while the Asaba and Onitsha refered condescendingly to the people in the areas east of the river Niger and east of Onitsha as "ONYE IGBO" because they were seen as the source of slaves. I've had several well-documented, archival materials from decades back emphasizing on this. The derogatory term "Ibo" (Igbo) used by the ethnic neighbors of the subtribes in the Ibo interior was ONLY used to collectively refer to the people east of the river Niger by the missionaries and then the British Colonialists from about 150 years ago, BUT it was ONLY after 1900 that the term "IBO" became widely used officially in books, newspapers and other documentation. Prior to that period, the different subgroups of what is now called Iboland today did not c
all collectively refer to themselves as Ibo (Igbo) BUT by the names of their individual groups or clans such as Ngwa, Mbais, Owere, Awka, Abam, Ohafia, etc.

Fatbam005:
dey deceive yourself. 5m in 6 month by selling okpa

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
Thanks for the update, Brotherman.

Fujiyama:
^^^
Interesting...but...

The name for slave in Igala isn't 'Igbo'...

The term used is 'Adu'.

But this Shelton's book is worth a read.

EmperorIsaac:
What is Ambassador Doctor....Kai, Africans!

Kemetian:
A country codedly rising despite all challenges, obstacles and shenanigans.

God bless Nigeria.

The Giant of Africa.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5h-mPWdAow

destinychildolu:
Seems this people are scared of Atiku.

ShobayoEmma:
God help the online warriors on this matter; fighting for the irrelevant.



Tinubu, a bad man with good intentions.

Smartjob1:
Maybe, Nnamdi Kanu bribed them.

Warrior99:
FAKE STAT.

No be today...

Factcheck0001:
chinedu any evidence wike killed APC members in 2015?

The main reason u losers hate wike today is because he didn't support your failed agulu fraud.


Oya since wike was d only one on board n it was a private jet

Who made d video?

Factcheck0001:
the same people who believe Buhari was cloned have started believing this too


Imagine dalohad arguing it's a private jet so only wike will b on board!!!


That's d intelligence level of the people we argue with online

Factcheck0001:
so the fact that it's an hired jet means it's only wike on board?

So others kept quiet n it's only wike that was praying?

Plane was about to crash n someone with with the the pilots making video n his hands weren't shaking?

U people are importing the I....p....o....b gullibility of believe everything into mainstream Nigeria politics.


The same people who believe Buhari was cloned believe only one person will b in a private jet on a journey

ALTERNATEID:
David Hundeyin is nothing but a big fuul. Again, this goes to show how completely unhinged and irresponsible Peter Obi and all his supporters. They are so evil, wicked and senseless. Will Peter Obi himself not die one day? Are there no lines that these savages can't cross? This is totally condemnable.