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Kikikiki...Soyinka must be reading 1956 constitution

E even wan debate.
Clown

Afelubo abi Agbalumo?

Never heard about him

Kikikiki... One letter 200 replies.

A wise man once said:
When people start talking about you, there's something important about you.

Imagine people even in Togo wasting time to reply a Femi Fani Kayode?

That girl pass these noisemakers abeg

Abeg who read this textbook...Help us summarize.


Until then,
No sane person will fall for that fake audio.
If you have evidence go to court and stop disturbing the public.


OBIdients are too focused to be distracted

cyrilamx:
Saturday, April 8, 2023

For at least three reasons, I really wanted to stay away from the hoopla that attended Peoples Gazette’s publication of Peter Obi’s “religious war” (or “Thank you, Daddy”) phone conversation with Living Faith Church’s Pastor David Oyedepo.

One, there was nothing in the conversation that was surprising to me. I have repeatedly called attention to the unmistakably Christo-centric tenor of Peter Obi’s campaign, which his deluded defenders disingenuously deny even when undeniably overwhelming evidence unquestionably points to it.

Unlike many people, however, I don’t hold this against Obi. It was his tactical and strategic response to APC’s same-faith ticket and PDP’s nomination of a northern Muslim as its candidate after eight years of a northern Muslim presidency.

In a deeply fractured country like Nigeria, when a competitive electoral contest pits entrenched collective identities against each other, as I’ve pointed out several times, it’s inevitable that political gladiators will deploy religion and ethnicity as tools for mobilisation.

Second, I recognised that Obi’s “religious war” comment to Oyedepo was merely his attempt to cultivate what we call consubstantiality in rhetorical studies, that is, establishing mutual ideals, values, interests, and attitudinal dispositions with the person or people you’re speaking to. Every human being seeking to persuade does it.

Oyedepo is a militantly passionate anti-Muslim preacher (who once told congregants to never give alms to any “Malams by the roadside” who beg them “in the name of Allah”), so the best stratagem to achieve identification with such a person is to invoke the spectre of a “religious war” with Muslims. And it was very effective. “I believe that. I believe that. I believe that,” Oyedepo said in response to Obi’s claim that the 2023 presidential election was a “religious war.”

Although Obi deployed anti-Anglican bigotry (and often framed Chris Ngige as a “Yoruba man” in order to delegitimise him, which Okey Ndibe condemned in his columns) to gain and retain power when he was governor of Anambra State, I have not seen any credible evidence of Islamophobia against him.

Significantly, Obi is Igbo and Oyedepo is Yoruba (in common with Tinubu, Obi’s mortal opponent), so Christianity is the only obvious margin of overlap between their lived experiences. Obi exploited that overlap to establish kinship with Oyedepo, like any politician would do. I don’t have a problem with that.

Finally, I think Southern Nigerian Christian politicians suffer a linguistic disadvantage that their Hausaphone northern Muslim counterparts don’t when it comes to the exploitation of religion for politics. They discuss their strategies of religious mobilisation in English, Nigeria’s national language that most people have access to, but Hausaphone northern politicians discuss theirs in the Hausa language, which isn’t accessible to most people in the South.

Muslim Northern politicians have uttered similar or worse sentiments than Obi’s during political campaigns, but their verbal indiscretions often don’t leak out because of linguistic barriers. On the few occasions that they do (such as when Buhari exhorted Muslims to vote for only Muslim politicians who’re sympathetic to Sharia or when he said the dog and the baboon would be soaked in blood if the 2015 election was rigged), northern defenders muddy the waters by accusing southerners of mistranslation, of literalness, of incompetence in understanding interlingual equivalence between Hausa and English, etc.

And, frankly, how many people will come out smelling good if their private communications are made public? We all have what scholars call a duality of scripts. We sometimes say different things for public and private spaces, although I think publicising the private thoughts of politicians who’re seeking political offices that put them in positions to determine the destinies of millions of people is fair game.

So, I was prepared to let this slide until Obi issued a statement calling the leaked telephone conversation “fake” and threatening to “take appropriate legal actions against Peoples Gazette and others” for publishing the tape. (By the way, who are the “others”?)

That statement implies that he will sue the Peoples Gazette for libel. I am convinced that this is mere face-saving litigious bravado that will peter out quietly. In libel law, truth is the most important defense. The tape is NOT fake, so Obi can’t conceivably win a case against the Peoples Gazette.

First, on April 1st, the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) fact-checked the audio tape and found that it is neither AI-generated nor altered by editing. “FIJ subjected the audio to a deepfake test using Deepware, an AI tool used to detect alterations in audios and videos,” the publication wrote. “Deepware’s deepfake detection technology ‘was designed to detect deepfake videos or, simply, any fake content in the areas of visual and audio communication.’”

I also personally used multiple deepfake detection software and found no evidence that the audio was edited or generated by Artificial Intelligence.

Plus, Obi’s presidential campaign spokesperson by the name of Kenneth Okonkwo confirmed the authenticity of the tape and even retorted that “Honesty is the best policy” when he was unremittingly bullyragged by the headless mob of revoltingly primitive social media rapscallions who call themselves “Obidients.”

Obi’s close personal media aide by the name of Valentine Obienyem also all but confirmed the genuineness of the tape and only added the requisite fib that spokesmen of Nigerian politicians must tell by claiming that “They edited out the Muslim-Muslim ticket that led to the discussion, where Obi said that in a society like ours, religious balancing was a necessary consideration and that their recklessness had made Christians to assume it was a religious war.”

That’s the most persuasive admission yet that the tape is real. Obienyem gave an insider’s confirmation that the conversation did take place. Is he and Okonkwo the “others” that Obi threatened to sue alongside Peoples Gazette?

Well, Oyedepo himself hasn’t questioned the veracity of the tape. He only said Obi was one of several politicians who routinely call to seek his blessing and counsel and that he is not a political partisan. Maybe, he is also part of the “others” that Obi will sue. He basically confirmed the Peoples Gazette’s story.

More than that, though, Peoples Gazette gave Peter Obi and his aides ample pre-publication opportunities to respond to the tape before publishing it. The paper said it gave Obi and his aides 48 hours. They didn’t respond.

The paper reached out to Oyedepo via WhatsApp who asked to be sent the audio file. The paper did. Oyedepo read the WhatsApp message, but never responded 24 hours after the fact, probably because he remembered the conversation but couldn’t defend it with the resources of logic and reason.

So, what will Obi tell the courts if/when he sues Peoples Gazette “and others”? If he says the tape is fake and Peoples Gazette insists that it isn’t, the court will call IT experts to authenticate it. The result will embarrass Obi, diminish his credibility irretrievably, and herald the death knell of his budding national political career.

That’s why I think he is merely blustering—or that unscrupulous lawyers want to get his “shishi,” which he doesn’t like giving out to people. In law, if a piece of information causes you to suffer reputational damage or emotional anguish it isn’t libel if it is true. Irreproachable scientific proofs and circumstantial evidence conclusively show that the audio tape is real. Obi has no legal basis to seek redress from the Peoples Gazette.

If Obi had threatened to sue on the basis of the invasion of his privacy, that would have been a different matter altogether. Although Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution provides that, “The privacy of citizens, their homes, correspondence, telephone conversations and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed and protected,” there is not a sufficient body of judgements against privacy violations in Nigeria to determine how the courts will rule.

But privacy violation isn’t the basis of his threat because that would confirm that he did utter the words he is disclaiming. The basis for his litigious threat is the claim that “the audio call being circulated is fake” and that “At no time throughout the campaign and now did I ever say, think, or even imply that the 2023 election is, or was a religious war.”

That’s in the realm of libel. In light of watertight evidence that it is he who is lying, not the Peoples Gazette, let’s see if he’ll have the courage to follow through with his threat. I am salivating in anticipation.

https://gazettengr.com/author/farooq-kperogi/

Kikikiki... Watch as he'd deny o

This is stale na.
Abi you just saw this?

FFK is inconsequential.
People would rather listen to Iyabo Ojo than an FFK

Is Tinubu now IBO?
Because it's Tinubu's game

So until they kill your family before you'd know the truth?
You think everyone is as daft as TVC viewers

KillSars:
Like he killed any of ur relatives? If u have any evidence, bring it forward, justice must be served....

One Dumbo got busted on phone saying election was a religious war and in reality the election was bloody in some part of the country, do u think DSS should visit him or make we just bone dat side??

Tinubu DID NOT WIN the presidential election.
He was rigged in by Mahmood's INEC

It's Too Late To Rewrite History

Peter Obi Won The Election

Unfortunately, Buhari can't be trusted.
I'd rather trust the devil than trust Buhari.

The guy's ego has been battered by OBIdients.
He just wants to salvage what was left if any.
Wetin concern Nigerians with his argument with Fidel?
If he wants to argue, we can beg Chimamanda Adichie or Ndi Kato if they have time to spare.

For now, no one gives a hoot about the oaf.

As per drugs, he'd be involved as a cultist and from what he wrote.

Kikikiki... OBIdients no send am o

Imagine, the crook even wan do debate on TV.
Who get him time?

Vado2:
He thinks he can deceive us with his grey hair and big grammar. He’s on a long thing!

You sef sabi the story?
The Crook don buy market.
By the time OBIdients finish with him,he'd tear his Nigerian passport too

Vado2:
Big crook!! Same Wole Soyinka stole money from the FRSC because payments were made directly into his account rather than the administration account, he couldn’t even account for the payment, and he blabbed when he was questioned about it at the Oputa panel

Very unintelligent as usual.
I know you're too daft to know the difference between OBIdients and IPOB members.

That said,
The so-called "Eze" is Tinubu's boy.
In his bid to stir APC's agenda between Ibos and Yorubas, he did what he did but OBIdients are circumspect and exposed him like the ibom Air actor.

Poor script for dunderheads

N3TRAL:
Disobidients have already declared their titled chief to be a Tinubu's boy.

On Saturday they denied the wannabe Abdulmutallab disobidient who took terrorism to the Nigerian airways.

On Sunday they denied Kenneth Okonkwo who told an obvious truth to free himself from the bondage he's been living in since the inception of Nollywood.

Three denials of high ranking disobidients within a week 😂.


If were an Obidîot, I'd stick to social media trolling, cyber stalking and bullying because members of my mob will deny me if I do anything different.

Oga, summarize.
No one has the time to waste.

Osinbajo justified it ...Period

Thunder1010:
By Seyi Geshinde


https://theeagleonline.com.ng/viral-videos-osinbajo-speaks-against-fascism-by-seyi-gesinde/

Alleged? This one na puppy o
Soyinka is a crook even IBB said it.

N3TRAL:
Wole Soyinka was arrested, tried, discharged and acquitted for the "alleged" offence.

It means he never did any of what you said he did.

Stop the blackmail!

Tinubu's boy
OBIdients were smarter than APC.
They dug into his past.

OBIdients sabi press neck abeg
See as simple tweet dey work Tinubu online dogs..

I believe some Foreign universities will soon start studying "OBIdience" as a course from 2024.

Because Anyone against Peter Obi is Toxic...Period

cathodekazim:
Who else noticed that almost 95 percents of Peter Obi supporters are so toxic and embittered towards anyone who goes against their ideology. From my findings, they've nearly insulted almost anyone who tackled or say things against Obi. As for me, I don't engage them in political arguments because I see that most of them reason nearly the same way. This is one major reason why Obi lost scandalously in the Southwest and the Northern region

Apt and lucid...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YWTq-sZ_ig

Kikikiki... Peter Obi that goes around without security sef.

Kikikiki
One thing I love about OBIdients is that you can't ignore them.

See Datti's comment,
Soyinka crawled out to disgrace himself.

No one throws stones or sticks at a fruitless tree.

Kikikiki
This Togolese again

Legitisreal:
I don't know how what yorubas decide to do with those they don't consider their leaders concern you.

She sure knows how to pepper people.
Bahd girl.
Not her fan but as an OBIdient I support her 1million%..Yes One million percent

Nonsense.
When you and your druglord Tinubu were insulting Fmr President Obasanjo and Pa Ayo Adebanjo, you forgot about respect because you are condemned to project a misfit like Tinubu as representing all Yorubas.

Any old f.ool who decides to misrepresent Us will be dragged.

Not age bruv , he is just showing us his true color.
Peter Obi's matter is exposing the true enemies of Nigeria.
The Court case will show us more.

DesChyko:
A Sea Dog for that matter talking about fascism. What was the essence of the confraternity in the first place? 😁

Let's give it to age. The man is aging.

1965 ELECTION DRAMA
31Yr Old Soyinka Declared Wanted For Seizing Radio Station At Gunpoint Over Western Region Elections Rigging!

HOLDING IBADAN RADIO STATION AT GUNPOINT AND WOLE SOYINKA’S BIZARRE NAME-CALLING~Tosin Adeoti

Wole Soyinka calling OBIdients names is the most bizarre thing I've read today.

Do older Nigerians really think we don't read (their) history.

A 31-year-old Oluwole Soyinka stormed a radio station and held a Bereta pistol to the head of a broadcaster to prevent the victory speech of the winner of a declared election result.

“Give me those tapes. GIVE ME THOSE TAPES OR ELSE……!”

He forcefully collected the tape and gave a substitute tape to be slotted for broadcast.

"Akintola go! Drop your stolen mandate, leave town and take your reprobates with you. Let them leave now before the people decide to wash the streets with their blood."

It is this same Soyinka who now talks about fascism and says Peter Obi supporters lost him the elections because of their utterances.

On an election that has been universally condemned?

No OBIdient has done half of what Soyinka did in that election; an action that he's refused to call himself a fascist for or even condemn.

"I could not sit down and accept that somebody should steal my voice. I felt at one with the majority of the people."

An action he justifies by saying he was moved to take because the democratic rights of the citizens were brazenly stolen.

This is the man who condemns people whose only offense is calling for justice ON THE INTERNET.

They hold no media station to ransom.

They wield no weapon on the streets.

Their offence?
Vehemently oppose those they think are not qualified to lead them on social media.

This is the people a man who fought military dictatorship on the streets and via the ink is offended by?

Is this how to build a nation?