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Realists:
Democracy is a game of numbers, not tribal sentiments & beating of wars.

Rastaramsey:
Afenifere omo nah baller
Na olamide dey talk am

Igbo president is what Nigeria need right now

BUT

Not from APC

Igbo President is the only key that will drive peace, unity and inclusion as well as national development; adding that 2023 presidency rightfully belongs to the South-East region.

Yoruba socio cultural group, Afenifere, the Middle Belt forum, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and other leaders in the Southern region have pledged their support for an Igbo president ahead of the 2023 general elections.


The groups stressed that an Igbo President is the only key that will drive peace, unity and inclusion as well as national development; adding that 2023 presidency rightfully belongs to the South-East region.


PANDEF
Edwin Clarke, Elder statesman and leader, PANDEF decried the attitude of regions who see themselves as "winners" taking it all, feeling that they own the country, and are born to rule; and that, except they rule, the country will burn.

This, according to him, was unjust and unacceptable.

While stressing that an Igbo president would guarantee the peace and progress of Nigeria, the elder statesman pointed out that the South-East, like any other region, had the men and women, who are competent whom Nigerians would be proud of, to occupy the position.

Clarke said, “The Motto of Nigeria is "Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress". Where is the Unity I ask, where is the faith in our beloved country; where is the peace; and are we really progressing? Let us not deceive ourselves. I am a strong advocate and believer in the Motor of our dear Country, and that is why my doors are open to all. But are we really working towards the attainment of this Motto? You cannot marginalize and oppress a people, and expect them not to speak out," he said.

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, leader, Afenifere disclosed that the reason why the South-East region had not ruled was because the Northern people did not want to give up power and had further devised a means to ensure that the Southern region remained divided.

"I asked Tinubu; do you believe they will make you president? They have asked Osinbajo to contest, they wanted to divide the West first, then they went to the south. I am appealing to South-South candidates; Wike and others, they are not helping the issue, they are helping the North; it is a game to divide us, even in the South-East. The North doesn't want to yield power and they know the way to do it is to divide the country. The problem is ourselves; let us unite" he said.

Dr. Pogu Bitrus, Chairman, Middle belt Forum who delivered the keynote speech, described as illegal the ambition of the South-West to seek the presidency, after Obasanjo ruled as president for eight years and Osinbajo ruled for eight years as vice president.

He stated that by design, the zoning and rotation policy is supposed to make it possible for each of Nigeria's six geopolitical zone to occupy the seat of president for eight years over a 48-year period.

trutharena:
Olu of Warri already passed the message about Asiwaju being the most qualified. The right quarters already got the message and that’s all that matters.

As a king, he should be seen to be fair to all so I can understand his press statement.

This is a matter between Olu of Warri and Tinubu but yet it’s the Meth IPOB terrorists that are bitter. These hateful minions are raised with hate so we understand their bitterness.

God bless Asiwaju Jagaban
God bless Olu of Warri

AlafinofEnugu:

Empty threat
Useless minority can't do shit

seyz91:
Don't be fooled

They are all thesame

They do anything close to election

Don't fall for it man

mighty2:
Peter pandora obituary also wan become president, animal also wan behave like human, inconsequential 5% f**ls also are feeling funky, for this country nothing people no go see
Yeebow human will never rule this country, know this and know peace
ON TINUBU MANDATE I STAND

Obi who referred to the reported 75bn he saved for Anambra state while also investing in critical infrastructure said that he “cut down the cost of governance and above all, I insisted from day one that we must save money.” and that he would do same if voted as the President of Nigeria

While responding to the alleged mismanagement of funds by his successor, former governor Obiano, he said “It is the people. I have lived in the Western world, the people are important when it comes to checks and balances.“He said the people have a right to demand accountability and reject policies that do not work for them. “But what you see here is that people, knowing that things are going wrong, are celebrating it,” Obi added.

The former governor of Anambra state stressed that Nigerians across states must demand accountability from their leaders from time to time.

Obi also noted that he would be able to cut down the cost of governance by not only cutting down the salaries of legislators but also that of the executive. He assured Nigerians that if voted in as President he would be able to convince the legislators with his sincerity as he would invest the resources of the country in important areas of the economy.

He said that Nigeria’s economy would thrive if it would invest in Youth entrepreneurship and education so that it could provide for the fundamental areas of development, health, education, and standard of living. He claimed that he would execute governance with ease and clarity of purpose if voted as president in 2023.


Obi lamented the spate of insecurity, and the Abuja-Kaduna attack, he said that investments in security should be a pre-emptive action by the Federal Government.

Money politics, fraudsters hindering Nigeria since independence – Peter Obi
“You don’t wait for thieves before you put a lock on your door. Our security system is below what it is meant to be in terms of equipment and investment. Security is the first line of intangible assets. It is one of the factors that investors will look at when they want to engage your country,” He added.

He said that if the government had put in place the needed security infrastructure the Kaduna-Abuja train attack would not have happened. “the government needs to do more and respond differently.”

While proffering solutions, he urged the Federal Government to find ways to provide jobs for the teeming unemployed youths, Obi said, “We have natural security and critical security. National Security, people must have a means of livelihood, today we have 33% Unemployment rate, if you combine it with the underemployment rate you have 65%. You are going to have security problems because this group is in their productive ages, When you provide them with jobs then you can now provide critical security,” he said.

Ttalk:
The greatest hindrance to Igbo presidency is their hate towards SW and SS people

Rastaramsey:
So because of ordinary talk, you don dey convinced

You deserve a hard knock on your thick skull

PressMyButton:
This liar that made medical doctors go hungry for 13 months, diverted the state's funds into his family business and then transferred the rest in a foreign account under the ownership of his daughter.. A liar that couldn't increase the state IGR, how in hell does he intend creating wealth across the country. A fraud that failed at state level would certainly be a disaster at the national level.
Anyways, there's no vacancy for Okoro in Aso rock.

Former Anambra state governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has said he is not desperate to be President of Nigeria, but that the country needs wealth creators and not sharers.

He also made the point that the country needs wealth creators and not sharers.

Obi disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja shortly after officially intimating the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s National Working Committee, NWC, of his intention to vie for the Office of the President in the 2023 election.

He said: “Our country is now going through a difficult time. I am not desperate to be a President; I am desperate to see a better Nigeria.”

On the insinuation that he is actually fronting for Atiku Abubakar, with whom he ran on a joint ticket in 2019, Obi dismissed same.

He noted that his background in the private and public sectors is enough to convince Nigerians of the kind of leader he is.

“You have to check my trajectory as a person, look at all the people that are contesting and view my background.

“You will probably see that I am the only person who has a very unique background.

“I am a businessman. I have chaired corporations in this country, including the Security and Exchange Commission, SEC and so many quoted companies and I have been a governor.



“It is for you to go and check all those places and see what I was able to do and ask yourself who is the right person to take leadership of this country at this difficult time,” he added.

He decried the state of affairs in the country, noting that in the past few years, Nigeria has been in the news for the wrong reasons.

“We have what we call natural security and artificial security. The natural security deals with job creation.

“You need to put food on people’s tables to ensure that they are not doing the wrong thing.

“If they don’t know where the next meal will come from, the tendency is that they will become a tool for anything.

“So we need to employ people. I know what to do in puting money into micro, small and medium scale enterprises.

“I have experimented this in a small way people can see. Otherwise how could a small state like Anambra end up on the day I was handing over not owing salary, pension?

“No contractor who executed his job, raised certificate or supplied us goods, was being owed.

“I have N77 billion which is over $500 million at that time in the bank. I know what we can effectively do to turn around the situation.

“We are now on top of the list of the most fragile states. We are now on top of the list of the most terrorised states sitting behind Yemen and Afghanistan.

“We are the capital of poverty in the world. We now have more people living under poverty than most big nation’s combined. We now have several millions of out-of-school children.

“Unemployment is 33 per cent officially but when you add under employment, it is about 60 per cent.

“Of these are the young ones who constitute the asset and the engine room of their productive age.

“People now spend 100 per cent of their salary to feed. It is a crises situation. What will somebody like me do?

“We need to move the country from consumption to production. There is nothing to share again.

“We now need wealth creators, not wealth sharers. We have been sharing wealth for a long time, we need to start creating wealth,” he added.

ProudImolite:
so true

edmaraja:
Did sit at home start today? Why has south east not become desolate all these while? You all don't go to work on Saturdays and Sundays why haven't your offices and banks and businesses become desolate because you missed two days of work? The banks and schools in the east have adjusted, all they need is move the working day to Saturday and move the work free day to Sunday and Monday.

Realist12:
You mean he will win in southwest and south south too ? Lol

ashacot:
Election will go down the wire especially if Tinubu does not support Ameachi. But if Tinubu supports Ameachi, forget it. The election will be over even before 12 pm because Ameachi will defeat peter obi so effortlessly.

uthlaw:
which of the south?

uthlaw:
depends on there vice,if kwankwaso vice Peter and El rufai vice amachi....Peter go likely win,but I vote amachi!

buckeyemedia:
Don’t mind that idiot, he has started whining his people, the states they already have are paupers that can’t live without Federal Government monthly handout for more than 60 days before they collapse, ordinary to pay state workers is a problem even with the free money from Abuja every month.

SHINJA:
Proudly Yoruba"son of the soil"

The enemies of this country will arrive soon and begin to hate this wonderful development going on in this peaceful state..

The pigs from the barren land of cannibals with hairy chest..

God bless southwest and South South
Two brothers!!!

United we stand against the land of cannibals..

God bless southwest

God bless south South

God bless Nigeria