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This changes nothing. Voters are already decided on who they’ll be voting for. I am from the SW and my vote is going to Peter Obi irrespective of what the media cooks.

Funny, One incompetent leader firing another incompetent person. He should sha get ready to handover to Mr. Peter Obi.

2023, Obi lo kan.

Wow

Wow, this is good.

Wow… just wow. Why this much hate from the Igbos for my people. As a strong Obi supporter, reading this thread saddens my heart mehn. I don’t even know what to think anymore.

It’s a good thing Atiku is running under PDP and not wike. Atiku and Tinubu are doing great disservice to each other. I see Obi cruising to Victory in 2023. My only concern is this; I’m not sure the northern cabal will be able to withstand an Obi victory. I hope this does not lead to the breakup of Nigeria. It is one thing to be a Christian President but also an Igbo man might be too much for them to handle. Let’s see how it plays out.

Lol

Why do people keep assuming that every police in the world is as useless as the Nigerian Police. Before the police arrest you and charge you to court, they must have had sufficient evidence about the crime. It is in Nigeria the police will arrest you before investigating.
It is illegal to offer any form of reward in exchange for organ donation. I guess that must have been the basis for the arrest.

As a Yoruba guy who has spent over 25years in the North. I would say Peter Obi has the best chance of winning the 2023 elections if he plays it well. Atiku's biggest roadblock is his tribe, especially among Christians in the north who have suffered tremendously under Buhari a Fulani nepotistic president. Secondly, Tinubu running a Muslim Muslim ticket would cause a large number of Christians in the North and SW to find solace in Obi. Obi should focus on converting the votes of Christians in the North who I believe is over 40% of the population of the total north. The fact there are no large northern Christian tribes like the Hausa/Fulani does not mean they are a minority as assumed.
Buhari knew this too (He couldn’t win without the votes of Christians in the North), so he chose a pastor as his VP.

This is good. Christians are not second class citizens.

ImmaculateJOE:
While he should campaign in the north. His energy Should be more in his strongholds of SE/SS, securing block votes from this regions should be his priority.
He should also focus on SW, NC and Christian dominated areas of NE & NW.
Convincing the core north will be a difficult or even impossible task, why waste energy and resources on a fruitless adventure.?

I hope his campaign can read this. 100% Agree

Frigga13:
Yes ..

But the toxicity of his fans offline and online can only be compare to that of IPOB in the east

That’s your new talking point. Point one toxic statement they made that does not sit well with you? You guys are only trying to smear the campaign with this toxicity bullsh*t

Frigga13:
Nobody is underrating Obi

But like he said .. he’s supporters are human overrating Obi

Na his followers and their toxicity will eat him live before others will deal with his bones

Power to the people
Atiku Okowa

Atleast this will give IPOB space to massage their bread ego for a while

But we know kperogi and his family in Nigeria will never vote an Obi

Ndi mmadu ajoka ...

If you understand how election upset works you won't say this. This played out in the US 2016 elections, which their biggest pundits never assumed could happen. He should pick a Muslim from the NC as his VP, not necessarily Hausa/Fulani because I am 100% sure he will not get any substantial vote from the core north, he should not bank on them.

As a Yoruba guy who has spent over 25years in the North. I would say Peter Obi has the best chance of winning the 2023 elections if he plays it well. Atiku's biggest roadblock is his tribe, especially among Christians in the north who have suffered tremendously under Buhari a Fulani nepotistic president. Secondly, Tinubu running a Muslim Muslim ticket would cause a large number of Christians in the North and SW to find solace in Obi. Obi should focus on converting the votes of Christians in the North who I believe is over 40% of the population of the total north. The fact there are no large northern Christian tribes like the Hausa/Fulani does not mean they are a minority as assumed.

Former Anambra State governor Peter Obi is inspiring a powerful, social media-enabled, youth-led political tidal wave that will radically change the contours of the 2023 election.

But APC and PDP operatives, still inebriated with the overconfidence of the size and deep pockets of their parties, are sniggering at the suggestion that Peter Obi’s Labour Party will change the game next year. They comfort themselves with the mantra that there are no polling booths on social media where Peter Obi’s devotees form noisy cyber silos.


Well, there is no opponent more dangerous than an underestimated one. People who are habituated to the politics of the past may dismiss it, but something fundamentally novel is happening. There’s an unstoppably growing corps of fired-up young (and not-so-young) people who are investing their time, energy, and emotions in Peter Obi. We have seen spectacular spikes in PVC registration and an increase in offline political mobilization, all thanks to him.

Three factors appear to be driving this. One, there is mass disillusionment with the quality and character of the presidential candidates of the two major parties. They are the same woefully familiar, recycled, unimaginative, self-interested, careerist politicians who are deeply invested in sustaining the dysfunctions that keep Nigeria in the twilight zone between life and death.

They mouth the same flyblown clichés, can’t articulate any grand visions, are indistinguishable from past politicians, have no commitment to any grand ideals, and are in politics to steal from the public till and dispense favors to cronies.

Peter Obi seems to be different. He comes across as down-to-earth, self-aware, committed to transparency and the demystification of governance, and as someone who invests considerable intellectual energies into thinking about— and offering solutions to— Nigeria’s problems.

I am dubious of the facticity of some of his more self-righteous, messianic claims, and suspect that he sometimes hyperbolizes some of the too-good-to-be-true anecdotes about his time as Anambra State governor in order to gain the applause of his audiences.

As a scholar of rhetorical studies, I know that rhetors can sometimes feel an obligation to not violate the expectations of their captive audiences by telling stories that their audiences want to hear even if this means bending or sexing up the facts a little bit.

Nonetheless, compared to Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi is a breath of fresh air.

The second impetus for the dramatic surge in Obi’s political profile is religious. Many Christians in both the South and the North feel excluded from the presidential tickets of the APC and the PDP. Churches all across Nigeria are drumming up support for Obi in protest.

I think this is legitimate in the interest of representational justice, particularly because Obi isn’t some pastor with a predetermined agenda to advance narrow religious or sectarian causes.

Although Obi is a devout Catholic, he is thoroughly secular and, based on some of his speeches I’ve watched, has a deep understanding of the imperative of separating the sacred and the profane in the business of governance.

The third driver of his popularity is Igbo resentment at their systemic political exclusion. In my April 2, 2022, column titled “Why Nigeria Needs an Igbo President in 2023,” I wrote:

“The Igbo are almost in the same spot that the Yoruba were in in 1998. There is mass resentment among them. Several of them feel emotionally disconnected from Nigeria. And we all know why. Apart from the fact that they have never produced a president or vice president since 1999, Muhammadu Buhari has done an extremely poor job of husbanding Nigeria’s intricate diversity.

“The sense of alienation that a vast swath of Igbo people feel now has made several of them, particularly their youth, susceptible to the murderous wiles of the mentally and emotionally disturbed mountebank called Nnamdi Kanu.”

Some of the secessionist oxygen that sustained Biafra agitation has now been redirected to Peter Obi, and Nnamdi Kanu has now been pushed on the backburner. While some people have put a negative spin to this, I think it is a golden opportunity. It shows that an Igbo presidency will solve the secessionist agitations and violence in the Southeast. For me, that’s a worthwhile reward for having a president who is Igbo.

Incidentally, in the April 2 column I referred to earlier, Peter Obi was one of two Igbo people I recommended as candidates for the presidency. The other was Kingsley Moghalu who sadly lost the primary election of his party.

I wrote: “The second is Peter Obi. In a March 25, 2022, article titled ‘Peter Obi: Applying to Be Driver of a Knocked-Out Car,’ I mentioned that listening to his speeches has captured my imagination. He appears to have a handle on Nigeria’s problems, and what I’ve read of his record as governor of Anambra State inspires some confidence that he isn’t just a talker. I can’t speak to his cosmopolitanism and commitment to seeing all of Nigeria as his constituency. That’s up to voters to find out.”

If Obi’s political momentum holds steady until February next year and the election is free and fair, I predict that he will cause a runoff. If he leads with the youth, Igbo, and Christian votes (I know there’s an overlap in some categories), he will upset both the APC and the PDP to the point that none of them can win in the first round of the presidential election.

If he doesn’t win or qualify to participate in the runoff, whoever he supports will be the winner. So, an intelligent political party won’t antagonize him or his supporters just yet.

But there are dangers for Obi, though, should he somehow defeat the structural impediments on his way to become president. First, his devotees call themselves “Obidients” and demand “Obidience” to him. That’s horrible. They would be worse than Buhari’s BMC trolls.

What is needed in democracy is critical citizenship, not “obidience.” “Obidience” in democracy suggests a surrender of one’s critical faculty, which is what precisely what Buharism is. It’s the death knell of democracy.

Obi’s rise to political stardom is propelled by anger at the political establishment. That’s the literal definition of populism. Populism instrumentalizes anger for politics without being able to transform the lives of the angry in any meaningful way.

Obi’s devotees imagine him to embody the solutions to Nigeria’s problems and expect him to wave the magic wand and make them disappear. As he himself admitted in a previous public appearance, Nigeria’s problems are structural and systemic and can’t be resolved with a mere change of the personnel in the corridors of power.

If his presidency violates the expectations of his devotees, they will turn against him. In other words, he is riding the tiger of populism, and it will devour him when he dismounts from it.

A Pastor’s Wish for Buhari’s Murder?

One Pastor Olugbemiga Olowosoyo who prophesied that Yemi Osinbajo would win the last APC presidential primary (in which he came a distant third) has insisted that Osinbajo will still be president, according to TheCable of June 16.

“It is in being vice-president that you will become president,” he said. “If you are not Osinbajo you will not understand what I said. But if you are close to Osinbajo, tell him that I said so. Let him go and be vice-president to Buhari. The era of Buhari is ending very soon.”

What does this mean? That Buhari will be murdered, poisoned, or die a natural death so that Osinbajo will take over power from him? Recall that Osinbajo reportedly said a loud “Amen!” in his hometown of Ikenne in Ogun State when an RCCG pastor prayed that Buhari should die in London so that Osinbajo will become president.

Of course, it’s unlikely that anyone can murder or poison Buhari, but why are some of these so-called men of God this reckless and irresponsible in their utterances?

Let Buhari complete what remains of his wasted presidential tenure and leave Nigeria to sort itself out.


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soojar:
If you know real politicking you will know it's that Muslim/Muslim ticket the only chance he has of defeating Atiku if he is given the APC ticket.

South West has always been religiously liberal. Majority don't care if you are a muslim or a christian as long as you are Yoruba.

No matter who Tinubu picks as Vice (even if na Pope) he can never win south East, he may manage to pinch some votes here and there.

The block vote is coming from the core North, present muslim/muslim to them and they will vote en mass for you. Votes from Kano alone is enough to nullify all PDP votes from the SE, remember also that PDP is sharing the SE votes with Peter Obi of Labour

I am Yoruba and a Christian. I can not and do not know any Yoruba Christian that would support this. If he is courageous enough, he should pick a northern Christian. There are lots of intelligent northern Christians from Kaduna, Benue, Plateau… This might change his odd.

Osinbajo is the man I’m voting for because I still believe APC and PDP have the strongest ground game. If Osinbajo is not chosen, then I’ll vote Obi even though I’m not sure of his chances. These are my choices. I’ll rather not vote than vote anyone outside Osinbajo or Obi.

Chai… From frying pan to fire. A lot of forces against him. I don’t trust any politician.

Hahaha

Let’s dislodge the Fulani hegemony all together. This past 7 years was revealing.

Hmmm

This is crazy

Which region suffers the most when power returns to the north? We know the answer. Let them keep pushing

This will be tough. I can’t bring myself to have another 8years of Fulani hegemony. Either a southerner from any part or we split the country.

Interesting

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why do they have to use all this titles