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Reports on Twitter are saying that tinubu was rushed to hospital. We're in for a long thing.

By page 3000.

The certificate of return will have been returned to it's rightful owner!

Obi will reclaim his mandate and become the people's president. Cementing the ballot revolution that swept the country.

This I have seen.

Obi believes he won taraba and Ogun state.

Please go out and vote!

Don't be defeated by the system. Don't surrender to them.

In as much as we were rigged last election, we still made a lot of progress inspite of it, so please, go out and vote.
We are wiser now! We know their game. We would be our own agents.

Vote for change! Vote for a new nigeria.

One year anniversary of that renowned slap in Anambra state.

In the Spirit of the anniversary. Yesterday was 1 year anniversary of the slaps pic.twitter.com/yJk7HGcMYr

— CuCares (@CUICARES) March 17, 2023

Very fine points made all around.

Quite an interesting thread on reddit


https://www.reddit.com/r/ask/comments/11tyakw/has_there_ever_been_a_good_dictator/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Ellexy:
Agreeded.

I also agree Roland there. His PR team has to be fired immediately. One too many mistakes.
A streak of mistakes infact. From ireti kingibe not being the first female senator of Abuja to the wrong picture of the prof he was congratulating. Now this! That PR team is highly mediocre and has to be got rid off immediately.
It's literally him right there taking picture with the girl while passing a message.

Oasis my dear respected elder brother, noticed you were silent about mc oluomo's threat to igbos in Lagos.
Please may I know what you have to say about that seeing as you're APC's propaganda mouth piece on this thread? Thank you.

wman:
Peter Obi can never know everyone on his campaign team personally.

These guys are just looking for holes to dig while conveniently ignoring Tinubu's gaffes.

At this point this kind of campaign of calumny is very stale.

It's already well established that obi's moral standing is far above the other candidates.

Rejecting governors retirement benefits.
Refusing to retire at senate like others.
Not having an international criminal record or arrest warrant.

Not fingered for murdering political opponents.
Not stealing governments funds.

I could go on and on.

Any tinubu supporter who attempts to castigate Obi on this is a big as fool as any.

This man could have very well called for riot in this country and this country will burn by the millions who genuinely feel they've been robbed. But he's consistently urging for calm and cooling the temperature. Meanwhile atiku himself went on public protest.

Let obi be the one to lead and protest and watch would happen in Benin, Lagos, asaba , Kaduna, port Harcourt etc. These states will burn! But this man has taken the righteous path and jagabandits still want to play campaign against character. Mtchew.

larride:
Did you question prosper his aim for bringing anything he brought here?

Why did you not write epistle to condemn what he posted as you do whenever you hear Lagos and your prick suddenly becomes erect?

Look into the mirror

I am not condemning the act of posting it here, but the intentions.

It's not long ago it was discussed here that APC is weaponizing state agencies for political gains, he barely commented on it and did as if he didn't see it. Then today he brought that of Enugu without adding any opinion so I'm questioning his exact intentions or motives here.
What is bad for A is bad for B. That's my own stand.

OasisX:


Pressure tí wá..... LOL!

What is your aim of bringing this here??
Are you condemning it straight up or trying to use it to justify it happening somewhere else? I continue to watch as you support evil while posting smileys up and down.

Izzuo this was me 7 months ago. This was a post you attacked me for! You said I was being "controversial". Do you still think this post was controversial?

[quote author=Donjazet2 post=116909910]And just like that, once again we have an influential and prominent Yoruba leader in Lagos castigating the igbos.
Not hausas, not gwari, not itsekiri. Always the igbos.

WHY?? WHY??

What have igbos as a whole done to Tinubu that all his followers must always hate on this tribe? Just why??
Tinubu is turning Lagos is into a hotbed for tribal tensions and setting the tone for ethnic cleansing.

This is not right.
https://twitter.com/Franeb/status/1572538850756689920?t=CHCaS5N8n_OOPxVEGwP99w&s=19[/quote]

Wow!!

The structureless party oo.
Obi has become a behemoth as far as nigerian politics is concerned.

liveLongNprospa:
MC Oluomo Don start again ooo

VIDEO: MC Oluomo threatens Igbo voters ahead of Lagos election, says: If you no won vote for us, sit down for house” pic.twitter.com/a9U89jTIeB

— Ogun Watch (@OgunwatchNG) March 16, 2023

Jide Sanwo-Olu will pretend he doesn't see these things🤣🤣

Notice how the likes of larride, Oasis and some of our esteemed abroadians just jump and passed this?

When I point it out now, it becomes that I'm being controversial by speaking about tribalism.

Omo but Obi grace really touch a lot of people oo.

No matter what happens in Lagos state, I think this rhodes-vivour guy's stock has risen tremendously in Lagos state.

I see him having an impact in Lagos politics moving forward.

Blueraydick, how did this happen?

Lagos PDP collapses structure for labor party?
Does this give labor party an upper hand here?

TrebleChamp:
I honestly don't know where Peter Obi is getting his confidence of reclaiming his mandate from but i like it, it would indeed be the 100th wonder of the world knowing how useless and corrupt the Supreme Court Justices are..

You have joined the group of people who were radically pessimistic. This is unconventional of any Obi voter or supporter.

Throughout the electoral campaign, it was drummed into your ears numerously that this movement was just "noise", a "phase" in Dino's words, "youthful exuberance that will simply fade". But you strode firm, you believed that it was not a phase. You were resilient in that belief that you will part of those who will make a positive change in this country and what happened? Thousands of people like you marched to the polls and today, against all odds, obi has won your very own state, the home of the cronyistic godfatherism. The very seat of his corrupt power was taken away from him and you are most likely represented by an LP representative. Represented by a son of nobody who owed no allegiance to any godfather, who has no debt to be settled behind the scenes.

Your district has been freed from the shackles of establishment corruption and godfather cronyism.
12 other states have also been freed from the corrupt establishment. So why the doubt still??

Why would you decide at this point to give into the cynical pessimism? Your vote has already been powerful and has shaken the system to it's core, why do you think it won't be seen through?

Obidients have already broken all norms in politics, we are about the break the systemic judicial streak of injustice. Keep the faith my dear respected elder brother. Our principal will win!

Drone17:
Off course. But the battle on Saturday is about who has the people power between him and Peter Obi. Who will the people listen to. This is taken note of his famous letter on why PO should join APGA if he hopes to be relevant.

Now LP is about to sweep through the state.

The most interesting race on Saturday will be the Enugu race

izzou:
[color=royalblue]You are not okay, mentally.

We were talking about 2019 election. And yes, there was no attacks on Igbos. I asked you for proof and you disappeared
Please, i really don't want to argue here as usual.
If you cannot understand what i am saying, leave the post. [/color]

Surprised you're insulting me when I've done no such thing to you today.

And no we were not talking about "2019 elections alone". I don't know what you're talking about.

I was pointing out how hateful tribal narratives were saturating the atmosphere in Lagos and you denied such was happening.

I kept repeatedly saying tinubu was running a tribal campaign and you and laride constantly denied this. Even after I gave examples of what his own wife had publicly said and pointed out his own tribal dog whistling about people leaving their poor places and coming to his Lagos.

Is it not what is happening in Lagos right now?? I wonder why you would go straight to insulting me but it's okay. It's hard to take an L when one sees he was wrong because of "neutral agenda". Cynicism at it's peak.

Roland17:
PDP and LP will still carry their Big head to that same market to pitch Igbo people against APC.

Like you, I just want peace because the state means a lot to Nigeria, believe it or not. I can't wait for Saturday to come and go biko!

Throughout this election season, there has been no indication of this.
Obi and now GVR have visited multiple places in Lagos, all dominated by different tribes. They haven't been selective of any location as far as Lagos is concerned and I believe the results reflected this as well.

Obi's votes were well spread across Lagos, both mainland and island. Both wealthy estates and ghettos. His votes spread in Lagos was uniform. Alimosho, ikorodu and Ikeja testify to this strongly.

In fact gvr has even delved much deeper into parts of Lagos previously shunned.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Apart from the fact that i like Sanwo-Olu, i really want him to win for the sake of peace.

The kind of bile spreading about in the name of Yoruba/Igbo is something else.

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Chineke meee!!

Na izzuo dey talk this thing?? The same izzuo that kept denying the same exact thing I kept warning and warning and warning about??

Na now your day break to have seen what I've been telling you about tinubu's APC in Lagos?

Thank God for you izzuo my dear elder brother (in PO's voice).
You've come a long way.
The way you kept providing cover for and enabling people who were highly guilty of spreading tribal hate was something else. Thank God you've seen the light oo.

liveLongNprospa:
Lmao.. Na Seun needs prayers 🤣🤣🤣

Now I see why hateful tribalism thrives on nairaland.

This guy enjoys the tribal animosity here.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Kindly scroll past, my brother.

Ike back-and-forth adiro kwa mu wa, biko[/color]

Mana points e na e'me nwere ka odi.

Generally when people say I hope you won't shout rigging, it's like they are saying people are crying wolf. In order words, what they're saying it's not true.
That's why I'm asking you if you think our elections were free and fair. What we've just seen.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I don't need to comfirm his influence. He has it already, and APC and PDP would be looking out for his partnership in the future.

But we are talking about Obi here. Just Obi

Let's watch. I just hope we will not hear of rigging if your expectations are cut short [/color]

When I read comments like these, I ask myself if people think people are just shouting rigging for no just cause..

Izuchukwu simple question, do you think the 25th elections were free and fair and devoid of rigging?

Systemic disenfranchisement.

My heavy grouse with the abroadians this season has always been that absolutely diabolical cynicism they have shown this last few months and then in one, outright evil towards others in the country.
Many have shown colors which we never saw before. And by the abroadians I mean those who prior to now I personally held in good esteem and respected. Raumdeuter, afrodoc and to a small extent, even ibime. I'm mentioning ibime because he was someone who I actually expected more from seeing his consistent advocacy for good governance in America. I expected him to do the same for us, but that is me holding him to my own personal standard.

Now, I always make mention of reddit here. ie the nigerian reddit page. That place is unique because it's actually dominated by nigerian abroadians too. So you get to see outsiders perspective of things happening in the country, especially juxtaposed with what was on ground before they left.

When it comes to our elections, you could see the sheer excitement and belief they had in what was happening in Nigeria.

The most popular up voted comments there will go something like this, "

when I left, I believed that hope was lost, that the country won't get it right with the kind of leaders they have and a population largely beaten into submission by these leaders, employing different tools, but it gladdens the heart to see the young ones of the country take their destiny into their hands, I hope this bears good fruits, this could be the start of something great for Nigeria, if not Africa as a whole"

. Not verbatim of course, but these were the kind of sentiments you would see.

Many of those abroadians were people unalloyed to any candidate hitherto but in the obidient movement, they recognized an attempt by the internet era youths to organize themselves into a political faction and disrupt the system. And they liked what they saw, but coming over to this section, what one sees is a tactic celebration of the failed status quo and then as I said earlier, a very diabolical "cynicism". The abroadians here rather than encourage the movement consistently hammered the narratives that the movement was a joke, that they can't see anything come out of it. Not only were they very cynical about the movement, they actively disencouraged it at any turn they could see. Called the obidients, foolish, headless, insult obi at every point they got and actually succeded at one thing, making this space a very uninhabitable space to say anything positive about the movement. Many at times they outrightly took a condescending approach to our lives here. .making out of touch comments.

You could see the success of their cynicism by how many obidients decided to become "closeted" if you may. Look at Roland, obaino, skimpledawg, even izzuo. And I personally believe damola. These were individuals who obviously aligned with this new political enthusiasm and consciousness of the masses but they were replecent in boldly voicing out their support because this space had become toxic to discussing anything obidients or Obi.

While you go to reddit and hear something like, mehn sometimes I'm homesick and wish Nigeria would be as good as this place, ie, an optimistic outlook at the country, here you hear, NIGERIA WILL NEVER Work! Nigeria WILL NEVER BE BETTER!! NOT EVEN IN 100 YEARS! LEAVE!!!!!

Also notable is that there you get a better balanced picture of the inner most mindset of a Nigerian immigrant, they highlight the culture shock and then also the benefits there and tell you better, how exactly it is. Here, the abroadians want to always sell a utopian dream of their resident countries.
The key reason, if not the only reason one leaves his country is for ECONOMIC PROSPERITY! Living a comfortable life, but in this thread shared below, you see an abroadian give you a peek into the soul and mindset of am emigrant, the range of thoughts, varying from having a healthy bank balance to innermost personal quality of life, ie, whether he is getting his life's worth of value with it. He expands on homesickness.

He ask you, what exactly is life? Say indeed, you grew up in Nigeria, surrounded by family, friends, for instance and your family has always been a constant in one way or the other, your brother your sister, your mother, your father, your uncles, auntys, nephew. Your church, your friendsa ND your society and personal identity in life, These are people whose lives encircled you and who you grew up knowing, but because you know quite well that a better chance of a much better economic life can be attained in a good country, you emigrated.

And when you emigrate, no matter how well prepared you think you might have been, for soo many moments, the reality of loneliness dawn's on you. The fact that it's like you're starting life completely afresh, and by that everything around you changes, even the smallest nuances he highlights for littlest instances, people don't understand your jokes, you don't understand people's jokes, (communication problems that dog you throughout), you have to go extra miles for familiar foods if at all you see it, your entire diet changes and no matter how you've adapted to the new cuisine there , many at times you wish to eat what you knew with how it was made in Nigeria. That specific nigerian flavor. You see very strange or unfamiliar things around you almost every single day because the entire society is just totally unrecognizable from what you spent all your life knowing and growing up in.

And there was a particular statement which struck me in that soliloquy. The person mentions that the nigerian reddit thread many at times is the closest the person feels to home. It struck me because I instantly wondered if the abroadians here felt the same way, if this was the closest they felt to home, hence their intoxication with the place. Because when all it's said and done, their realities in those countries is totally different from what they always see here. And many more. Now please not, I shouldn't be misconstrued as passing a message that underates emigration. I'm simply pointing out the differences with the abroadians (some) here and those there and pointing out a fundamental flaw in both their outlooks to our country and their lives.

It is worthy to note that non of them have ever shared a negative experience ever encountered there! Like zero negative experience, it's always a utopia. This can end up setting one up for a rude shock. Because again while economic prosperity is certainly a goal in life, there are other things that complements to give one a happy life, so one doesn't end up in America while dedicating soo much time towards affairs of Nigeria or worst planting seeds of discord amongst nigerians.

Please I hope we are all voting this weekend?

We didn't come all this way to chicken out.

Despite the evil establishment fighting back hard, we have still made tremendous progress!!

They called us canopians, called us social media warriors without PVCs. Predicted we will never make headway, but alas our tiny party of 8 months old just won the highest number of states!

Get that, HIGHEST NUMBER OF STATES!! (I'm including rivers naturally).

For a party who many underestimated right until election day, many were shocked.
8 fvcking senators and about 40 house of reps, not including the many seats stolen from us in rivers, imo, ebonyi and us not being able to fill all our slots. We fvcking sent them a message obidients!

Now let's go again! Let's capture the wealthiest states in Nigeria and build from there.
Let's get Lagos, delta, Rivers, akwaibom, crossriver.
We fvcking won these states obidients! WE WON THEM against all odds.

Our eyes are open now! We are wiser now, we can't trust INEC so we will be there, right at our polling units, unfortunately elections will not be held where I am, but I'm with all of you in spirit!

We must win! And win Big! What we started, we will see to it's fruitful conclusion.

Please go out and vote!

1960!

By 2060

Obi would have won his mandate back!

The certificate of return will definitely be returned.
This I have seen.

TrebleChamp:
See men confessing their sins openly 😁😁

Nonsense inec that stole the dreams of nigerians.

Don't worry, una time dey come