₦airaland Forum

fuckJones:
you want me to read this long note just because of a Lia and UK deportee?

You see? Therein lies the problem. You will not read and be aware. instead you prefer to suffer and smile under the gragra and abgeroism of the lord deceiver, the master of manipulation and divide and rule politics. The choice is yours.

Yes! There’s nothing they haven’t said of Peter Obi. They have charged that he is not a god. They have said he is no more than a political opportunist. They have ridiculed his promise to change Nigeria from consumer to producer. They pooh-poohed as unfounded the statistics the man churned out on successes abroad that could be replicated back home. But the traducers wouldn’t reckon with reality. The subject of their insistent lambasting never ascribed divinity to himself. He did not circle his head with sanctity’s hallo. In the league of politicians, he didn’t claim to be more human. He only asked for the chance to lift a comatose country.

Those who alternate between reading newspapers and staring into the skies understand that, like other humans, Peter Obi possesses a bag of foibles. All told, he sculpted in the granite of national consciousness an enduring self-definition. “I am a trader,” he often asserts, without the novelty ever wearing off. Well, here is a gem from the trader-politician: “Who among us would lose their car and, on discovering who made away with it, allow them to keep the vehicle because it was scrupulously maintained?”

Any reader who would rather the illegal confiscation of his property stays unchallenged because it is forever kept tidy may discontinue reading because this article is themed on halting looters and worsting impunity.

Now, the stolen automobile and seized mansion are understated anecdotes for estopping wantonness. Here is a newspaper’s May 5, 2023, story: “A total of 137 persons were killed, and 57 abducted during the 2023 general elections, a report by the Incident Centre for Election Atrocities (ICEA) has shown. The report entitled: “Ethnic Profiling, Hate Speech, and Endemic Violence: A Preliminary Post-Election Statement on the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria,” obtained by Saturday Vanguard in Abuja, said the most prominent forms of atrocities noted through the electioneering process were the weaponisation of voter suppression through violence, hate speech, fake news, and ethnic bigotry.”

To recraft the understated anecdotes. A princess would be betrothed to a community’s crown prince. Once the ceremony is underway, a bandit storms the public square with sword and bludgeon-wielding mercenaries. The king’s head is separated from his torso. The crown prince’s bloody entrails are flung and scattered in all directions. The bandit abducts the would-be spouse. A reign of agony and bedlam ensues. A season later, the bandit returns with his abductee and their son, claiming entitlement to the community’s throne. Except inflicted by bastardy, which Nigerian community will heartily crown the murderous criminal because, straight from their violation, a bouncing baby boy was born?

This is the atrocity that impelled Peter Obi to step into the breach. And, like the tree by the footpath, what he represents is the subject of much buffeting and battering. He has been viscerally bathed in malignity and curses. One social media profaner even called him an infidel. Yet, he is neither bloodied nor bowed. Having long banished the fear of fear, he is proceeding with the breastplate of truth and the belt of righteousness. If a sane society decided on an ”infidel’s” leadership, why should interlopers discountenance their democratic choice? Wasn’t a similar outrage what threw up the June 12 imbroglio that almost sundered Nigeria?

Doesn’t it strike as significant that a man much maligned for championing the people’s cause has not for once served his adversaries with a dose of their own medicine? Peter Obi was a teenager when First and Second Republic politician, Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim, espoused the philosophy of Politics Without Bitterness. He is today that creed’s prime exemplar. He has demonstrated an abiding faith in the ballot box as the democratic instrument for elective office. He has invariably turned to the judiciary each time the need arose to redress political waywardness. He acts in boldness, knowing that he will never walk alone.

Some theoretical formulation is apposite. The sum of Nigeria’s intractable challenges was always known. Chinua Achebe placed a finger on it. In The Trouble With Nigeria, he said: “The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example, which are the hallmarks of true leadership.”

Reacting to Achebe’s thesis a year or so before he perished in a mystifying 1996 plane crash, Professor Claude Ake, the eminent political scientist, submitted that national failure was equally blamable on followership. If docility informed followership, he argued, there was little point in expecting or envisaging altruistic and visionary leadership.

On the surface, Achebe and Ake had argued from antipodal zones. But examined critically, their postulations are, in fact, in tandem. The confusion only rears its ugly head when leadership is seen from the opaque prism of political authority. Except impliedly, Achebe didn’t blame Nigeria’s trouble on political leadership per se. And when Ake lanced followership, he didn’t articulate a chasm in the bonds of responsibilities devolving on the leader and the led. Therefore, it boils down to this: Leadership cannot be sentenced to the political and the apicular. Of course, leadership is pyramidal. But it exists and thrives at the levels of political distinction, economic potentialities, geographic demarcations, religious stratification, domestic particularities, etc.

In effect, a school principal is, in comparison, a follower of the education minister. But inside his college, the principal is the leader. A carpenter on a building site follows a foreman. But back home, where he is the breadwinner, his leadership position ought not to be in doubt. The class prefect and her classmates are subject to the headmaster’s authority. Yet, she leads her cohorts. It is in this classification of diverse and varying leadership levels that the postulations of Professors Achebe and Ake should be inserted. This, then, is the critical question: What is the quality of your leadership at your own level?

That’s the juncture at which the Obidient Movement manifests because it represents an uncompromising affirmation of political morality that abjures class, ethnic, or religious parochialism. Obidients show leadership at whatever level circumstances place them. In apt apprehension of their civic responsibilities, they not only participated in voter registration but also encouraged broad swathes of the population to follow suit. They disdained violence. On election days, they trooped out to vote, even in the face of harassment, intimidation, violence, and INEC’s perversity.

When election results were called that raised eyebrows, they disdained the template for “the dog and the baboon (to) all be soaked in blood.” They hearkened to the invitation to “go to court.” That is the new Nigeria. Such is the nature of life that the man after whom Nigeria’s redemptive movement took a name is not the issue. Had Peter Obi gone into the presidential ballot flying other than the Labour Party flag, it is unlikely that the movement now symbolically coalesced around his personality would have come to be.

•Iloegbunam is the author of The Promise of a New Era, the biography of Mr. Peter Obi



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/07/peter-obi-is-not-a-god/

sonnie10:
Is it illegal?

Are you a fool?

Sirheny007:
Nothing will happen.
Tinubu has rigged his way to the presidency, and unfortunately, he has come to stay. There is nothing Obi or Atiku can do now.

Hoping in the Tribunal will be foolhardy.
It has never happened. Make hope no go kill person.

Glomerooi!

I disagree with you on this one tho. Evil can but tarry awhile. Justice always prevails at the end of the day.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, in Abuja, said his regime had delivered change to Nigerians, especially in the area of affordable housing.

Appraising his regime’s performance in office during the inauguration of a housing estate in Zuba, Abuja, on Tuesday, the President claimed that the new housing estate was addressing multidimensional poverty among the citizens.

But the opposition parties described his claims as bogus, insisting that he performed woefully.

Presenting keys to the new homeowners at the Federal Housing Authority, Zuba, Buhari said, “I convey my hearty congratulations to the new homeowners in this estate. Our promise of change has been fulfilled for you.’’

The President also said the new housing estate was addressing multidimensional poverty as the beneficiaries had “taken a step up on the ladder of prosperity and away from poverty.’’

The PUNCH reports that the N9.5bn estate, which is located on 18.5 hectares of land, consists of 16 blocks of three-bedroom flats in a block of eight flats, 32 blocks of two-bedroom flats in a block of eight flats; 14 blocks of one-bedroom flats in a block of 16 flats and five blocks of terrace duplexes in four rows.

Buhari, who has less than 27 days left in office, pointed out that investments in housing created employment opportunities for artisans and other skilled members of society.

He urged residents of the estate to consciously work together with the FHA to ensure the maintenance of the property and the safety of the environment.

He stated, ‘’Housing supply is one of the indices of multidimensional poverty that challenges our people and the completion of this estate provides a solution for the beneficiaries.

‘‘The new homeowners who benefit from this estate have taken a step up on the ladder of prosperity and away from poverty.

‘‘One of the measures that we have consciously deployed to attack poverty, create prosperity and develop our economy is the aggressive provision of infrastructure nationwide.

Commending the Chairman, Managing Director, Members of the Board and Staff of FHA on the successful completion of the estate, the President noted that the project was another testament to his regime’s commitment to lifting people out of poverty.

13,000 employed

On his part, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said 75 contractors were engaged in the project, while over 13,000 Nigerians were employed both directly and indirectly.

He also thanked the President for providing leadership through his approval of appointments to the leadership of the FHA Board and Management.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Office of FHA, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, described the project as a manifestation of the regime’s deliberate housing policy in line with the promise of providing shelter to Nigerians.

He said the Authority delivered the project at a total cost of N9.5bn with the subvention of N7.5bn from the Federal Government.

The balance of N2bn of construction cost came from the Authority’s other projects, which were ploughed to complete the estate.

In his remarks, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, FHA, Senator Shuaibu Lawal, thanked the President for providing the grant of N7.5bn for the project to commence in May 2018.

But the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and Social Democratic Party took a swipe at the President over his self-commendation, saying Nigerians did not take him seriously anymore.

The PDP National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, said, “Here is a man who promised to fight insecurity. Is the country safe and secure today? He said he would fight corruption and revive the economy. What is the situation today? The man has nothing more to offer apart from laying claims to achievements that no one is aware of.”

The Chief Spokesman for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, believed Buhari’s latest action was a clear display of mediocrity and ineptitude.


He noted, “How can he say that when many people are living under bridges? Is he even aware of how many people we have in IDP camps that have not been resettled? I am sorry to say this. But this is mediocrity and ineptitude at play.

“There is no justification for probably providing housing for all. We are far behind in terms of deficit. President Buhari’s statement is not justifiable, please. Giving himself a pass mark at this stage is self-gratifying.”

NNPP slams Buhari

The New Nigeria People’s Party National Publicity Secretary, Dr Major Agbo, questioned the propriety of Buhari’s praise of his regime, adding that Nigerians would praise him if he had done well.

He stated, “We are all Nigerians. If there is anything tangible enough for us to agree that he has well, it will not be hidden. It will be there publicly for everybody to see. The question is, what are Nigerians saying? Everybody appears to be on one page. This government has not done well.”

On his part, the SDP National Publicity Secretary, Rufus Aiyenigba said Buhari should be ashamed for making such a false claim.

He described the APC regime as ‘’a monumental failure,’’ stressing that Nigerians have never felt unsafe as they are today.

He said, “For us in the SDP, we consider it unthinkable that the President would in good conscience, claim any form of fulfilment, considering the monumental failures and the many downsides of his 8-year administration. He should be ashamed.

“In the history of contemporary Nigeria, we have not had it this bad in almost all segments of our national life. Nigerians have not been this despondent, frustrated, divided and polarized along ethnic and religious faultlines.

‘’Nigerians have not felt this unsafe and traumatized since after the civil war; the nation’s economy has not been this bad and the purchasing power of average Nigerians have never been this low in the last three decades.’’

However, the APC Director of Publicity, Bala Ibrahim, argued that the APC had done well and berated the opposition parties for ‘’always belittling the achievements and giant stride of the President.’’

He stated, “I think it is unfair for anybody to say the President has not done remarkably well in the area of housing. This is one regime that has come with a special ministry that lays emphasis on housing, and infrastructure for the provision of accommodation and made access to loans for housing easier and more realistic. Not only has the FG empowered mortgage banks, but it has also made the conditions for the provision of collateral to get housing loans less cumbersome.

“Now, you need to look at the challenge the world has faced as a result of COVID-19 and the loss in price of oil. Yet, in spite of the challenges of this internally generated revenue, the housing sector is one area that has not been drastically affected. Rather, the government remains on course to ensure that housing is available and affordable.

“Go to the North-East where an entire community was wiped out and people forced to live in IDPs. But yet, through the assistance of the FG, the governors of those states were able to provide accommodation for the people, rehabilitate and reintegrate them back into the community.

Commenting on the housing deficit in the country, the President of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, Enyi Ben-Eboh, said Buhari could only appraise his government if they delivered what was promised.

He said with the number of housing deficits in the country, plans should be made to build more houses for the populace.

On his part, the President of the Nigerian Institute of Building, Yohana Izam, said in terms of quantity and quality, the target had not been met.

He said, “The government has provided houses in so many states across the federation, however, the quantity and qualities are below expectation, and we hope the incoming government will do more in terms of providing affordable housing for the people.

“We at the institute of building are very worried that the quality is nothing to write home about, that contractors would be engaged and deliver such poor quality is very sad. In addition, these houses are there but low patronage because of the quality has not met the desired expectation, and the high prices, especially that the houses were not properly constructed.”

According to him, with the minimum wage at N30,000, the general thinking is that low-income earners had still not been captured in the affordability bracket.

“So, we either have to go down with the prices of the houses using technology and innovation, bringing in construction materials that will bring down the cost of houses, or increasing the minimum wages or increasing the standard of living generally.

“This should be a challenge for the incoming administration to ensure that houses meet the desired expectation in the country.”

https://punchng.com/i-have-delivered-on-change-agenda-buhari/

You see?

occfx:
Imagine where darkness dey, you come shine light, what do you expect? Darkness go suffocate or run away.

Gbam! 😁

Drug baron-in-chief is hoping that things will be business as usual. He is about to find out this time around things are not so.

This time around he has gone against the majority; this one has got him by the balls 😁😁

PulaPower:
How can they stole what you never had?

I don't blame you people. Na INEC-select I blame.

Open your eyes and smell the coffee.

PulaPower:
Mtchew..

Nah the hurricane carry Obi enter once chance..

Lolz. Continue to dey deceive yourself. You see dat mandate when Una thief so, Una go return am. By thunder by lightning. Jus dey play 🤓🤓

.... For 'darkness' came face to face with the 'Light' and darkness could not comprehend it. 😁

All you have spoken is simply the truth ma. True Omoluabi.

But the going-to-be fascist and all his supporters with their warped thinking will ignore the glaring truth and start foaming at the mouth over this. If that isn't stark, raving madness, I don't know what else is.

And the Agbado and all the urchinuses look set to make it all worse.

N3TRAL:
The couple had a very disappointing experience and you could hear it in her voice. It's not a good thing that negroids are stereotyping ethnic groups within the race based on physical appearance.

If there's any race in the world that should unite, it's black people who are not rated anywhere apart from Sub Saharan Africa.

All hands must be on deck to foster national unity. The outcome of 2023 General Elections seems to be the further division of a hugely diversified country.

As long as you are Nigerian, you have the constitutional right to vote and be voted for anywhere in Nigeria.

I hope that my children grow up in a country where they are not discriminated because of their r/l factor, h factor, cone head, flat head or yam legs.

Oga stop speaking out of both sides of your mouth. Its you and your ilk who have been championing and clapping over the plans to disenfranchise Ibos and non APC voters in Lagos.

Now you are beginning to see the effects of what you all have been taking as just a joke on social media.

Don't worry, you hear, what you all have been looking for, you will see it in abundance. He who brings home ant-infested wood should not be surprised to see his home overrun by lizards.

Faber:
Reno is in pains

Sifya pains!

ganisucks:
Goodluck Jonathan and Wike must really be squeaking in their boots, for Reno Omokri to descend to this. Eyah, you want to beat a Generalissmo like OBJ, and common military school you no go. Na die you dey.

Beats me how this guy continues to unravel. Wow.

APC and lies tho. Just look at them twisting themselves out of shape trying to defend the indefensible.

What is so glaring for even a blind man to see, is what they are now running from pillar to post, trying to defend, to the extent that they now even believe their own lies. Like the Zombie below me.

Is that not madness? Lunatics, all of them. From top to bottom

"As governors, we are closer to the grassroots more than the President. This policy may set the masses against Buhari. It is not a good exit package from a President who has enjoyed the confidence of the masses.”

The height of self delusion

Septagon:
Is Biafra among?


Hadley Chase available

What about Pacesetters. I want Pacesetters.

Tannhauser:
Prior to the APC primaries most Nigerians were in agreement that the current administration had failed. We all suffered the insecurity and inflation together.
What happened?

A certain candidate emerged and knowing he would be a hard sell to reasonable citizens immediately unleashed his propaganda machines. The same tactic that was used to destroy the ENDSARS protests, the greatest show of brotherhood of Nigerian youth from all tribes is being put to use today....Tribalism.

If Osibanjo had emerged the presidential candidate we all know that the other tribes would have voted for him...but now the shoe is on the other foot and this tribe is determined to plunge Nigeria into full blown anarchy because they want to support their tribesmen even when it is crystal clear even to the blind that said candidate is morally, mentally and physically unfit for that position.

For shame....For shame.

If only it were possible to give 10000 likes to this comment.

Ezedon:
80 feet is not that high na

Lol. Would you like to try it?

Is he even allowed to run after taking two oaths of office? I thought the constitution bars him from doing so(?)

cybriz82:
Na person say make u go stay for alagbole area?

Lolz. Bros, first of all, I no dey stay for alagbole area. Second of all, whether u dey keke o, you dey Range or G-wagon, all of Una dey the traffic together. Even with your escort and all.

And even for Ikoy or Lekki or Surulere, name the place, the air quality na the same. As u get
heavily polluted air for Olodi na so u get for Ikoyi. Except say u dey talk of BI or VGC. So which place undey talk of exactly?

The whole place is seriously overhyped.

You scramble for everything - space, fresh air, time, quiet, peace of mind.

siofra:
Good luck, sir. But please move this to the sports section.

Kikikikikikikikiki got you!

definitelyME:
This continent called africa never ceases to amaze me everyday. Corruption in broad daylight is now the order of the day..africans are really suffering. Only someone who has traveled out of the shores of this continent would understand that africans are truly suffering.... I plan on joining the army after my graduation from university although I have the option to travel abroad for masters after graduation, I wouldn't because I feel alot need to be done for my dear country and continent and alot of people need to pay for all the wrongs they have done to us(even if they are dead by then, their children will pay for it), and if it is my destiny, by God's grace I will succeed...

Please if you're reading this, and you are a lover and believer of truth and the fact that nigeria and africa will be better someday, please pray for me and all other people who have the best interest of our dear country and continent at heart...

No matter what difficulty you're going through, just be hopeful because nothing last forever...

I LOVE YOU ALL

Send me a PM. And God bless you.

Wait o. So all those good looking babes are prisoners abi detainees na wah o. There are levels to this sh** o.

NoFucksToGive:
That's when useless transsion will start producing their usual substandard fake rubbish phones

:Tecno Camon 5G plus , Tecno camon 5G plus pro, Tecno Camon 5G PLUS PRO 2 PRO with inbuilt Toothbrush and clipper..

Infinix HoT 5G , Infinix Hot Tube 5G splash, Infinix HotPro5G nutcracker,

Itel P101 5G , Itel J202 5g version with GPRS, now launching the new Tecno Phantom 5G with inbuilt nuclear missile detector ..

Rubbish

Lolz. Now this is truly hilarous, but, your point is made.

YinkaOlusesi16:
The man should av run away nah, what is he still doing there

You think he is like you who would run away from your country for another person to defend?