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SilverOrLead:
Same Chanji taking points used in 2014/2015 where anyone not for Buhari was a Yam eater .

You guys are indistinguishable from the Chanji influencers and I won't be surprised that the Obidient are being teleguided by the same puppeteers that forced Buhari on us.

1. Peter Obi is changing Nigeria’s entire campaign structure & strategy. The man is demystifying the stereotypes, & rewriting History. He figured mobilization to stadiums is so expensive, people can barely even eat, the APC rendered 133 million Nigerians multidimensionally poor.

2. So he sat down & asked himself “how best do I reach out to more Nigerians without spending a dime?” The idea of “walking the streets” ignited. After starving Nigerians, you don’t expect they’ll abandon their businesses to attend every campaign in a stadium, do you?

3. Old foxes are still stuck in the past, & in their spent glory. They don’t understand the long game Peter Obi is playing just yet. Their average think tanks don’t even realize the game has changed. They are still living in the past, & obstinately fixated on their rented crowd.

4. Rented capacity crowd is ≠ votes, Peter Obi quickly understood this. As a thinker & strategist, he moved on from those old ways of campaigning. The man is young (in your Nigerian definition), he has strength & stamina. Now he is innovating & inventing a New Campaign Culture.

5. Already he acts Presidential even before the polls. Like Julius Caesar, he crossed the Rubicon & marched on the streets as a conquering hero. PO has started fulfilling his promise to leave Aso rock & meet the people. He has activated his Street Credibility & Citizens Outreach.

6. He’ll be your first ever Jehovah Witnesses President knocking on your doors to get things done. He won’t be a lame duck. He’ll barely stay in Aso Rock for a whole week. Man is so eager to hit the ground running from day one. You can feel his energy & passion from abroad. �

7. So instead of eating corn, frying akara, plaiting hairs or hawking groundnuts, Peter Obi changed the game completely. Now he walks long distances to the stadium. This strategy gives Nigerians a wholistic sense of belonging, it affords the people a glimpse into his presidency.

8. The whole strategy of “walking the streets,” it makes Nigerians love him the more. A wiseman Peter Obi is. He is immersing himself into the lives of common folks, & bringing leadership & governance to their doorsteps. A Great Mobilizer; PO has managed an amazing feat. �

9. At first, old foxes never considered him as any type of threat. Now the dynamics has changed, his “Walk of Fame” is now an iconography, something from a Mandela movie. A replica of the “Long Walk to Freedom.” 2023 is so unusual, it is unlike no other previous elections.

10. Jettison all you think u knew. New statistics will be created, hearts will be broken, & lessons will be learned. Permutations will fail your rusty analysts. Situation Rooms will suddenly realize they got it all wrong. In the end, Nigeria & its Democracy will be better for it.

11. Large percentage of Nigerians who are going to vote for Peter Obi & Datti, they don’t even attend campaign rallies. Peter Obi’s “street walk” is one of his own strategies. He realized that one candidate cannot even walk in a straight line, so he can’t copy nor play catch-ups.

12. The other candidate is equally showing signs of old age & fatigue. So Peter Obi is now in a class all by himself; a class act. People are counting the days, they are eagerly awaiting the 25th of February to register their Protest Votes & Citizens Retribution, at the ballots✊

2023 is a marathon not a sprint. I urge u Nigerians, don’t give up the fight! Posterity is with u! The world is with u! Heavens hear u! And when PO is in that saddle, ur pent-up euphoria will erupt like a volcano. From that moment on, patriotism will be the anthem, the mood of ��

duro4chang:
Your language is dirty and uncouthed. Where and how were you brought up. I thought our education should make us better persons. This is democracy. Let me choose my candidate and you choose yours

LeoDeKing:
Ngozi, Tinubu is not sure of any local government area.

duro4chang:
Let me use this medium to congratulate Bola Ahmed Tinubu the incoming president of Nigeria. For the online voters continue to enjoy your online poll while it lasts.

LeoDeKing:
February is around the corner.

We will see the ipigz screaming "let's divide this country".

Bye for now.

LeoDeKing:
Okay shinedu.

Donwilson88:
Freedom of speech! Where are you??

harqinhola:
I am actively on Social Media and I’ll vote for Tinubu

stanluiz:
It Started by Buhari will hand over power to Rochas Okorocha because he is the only igbo man that knows how to play politics and build bridge.

The same Okorocha that couldn't get any single vote during APC primaries. No a single vote. The Northerners that he asslick no even look him face.

Buhari throw all of them under the bus including Dave Umahi another pathetic asslicker.

Where is Okorocha today ? Is people still talking about him. He is now forgotten.

Now that buhari phase have passed. Is now Atiku will hand power to an igboman. The same Atiku that is serial loser. He said it in Enugu and Anambra and Igbo leaders there believe him. Pathetic!

No wonder soludo has been misbehaving. He think he is the chosen candidate from the east. What a delusional man!! He didn't learn from what happened to Okorocha, Umahi, Ouk etc.

Igbo politicians keep getting scammed every four years using the same format. When will their eyes open ?

Anyway it is bound to happen because most of them are fighting for their selfish and personal interest hiding under " Igbo president" .

They are waiting for cabals and power brokers that will give president instead of selling themselves to the Nigeria masses and voters.

That why they are angry, envious and bitter of Peter obi because of the weight he is pulling and the organic support he keep getting even outside the South East.

Peter obi is totally different from them that why they keep attacking him and try to pull him down.

But Peter obi the rock is not moved by their shenanigans and thier back bitting.

ggood:
MOST Igbos are foolish, I was thinking all the Igbos will support their son, I have not seen any northern Elites condemning Atiku and Rabiu Kwankwoso openly.

thinkmoney:
If you are hoping that Kwankwaso that just mocked Tinubu that he bedwets is going to step down for the same Tinubu at some point, then you really don't know much.
I am certain I know a lot about politics in Nigeria. I predicted long time ago that Kwankwaso will stay to the very end just to spoil Tinubu and Atikus chances. He believes now that he only have a chance after Obi.

KingKO22:
Without Northerners Tinubu won't be the flag bearer of APC when the Southern leaders were busy running after Atiku and Games Lawal

Wether Tinubu wins or loses the Northern elders have showed a great loyalty that no Southern leaders could emulate

We knw our enemy and we don't need a Zombipigs to tell us

Thinkam:
Madugu wears woman underwear? How ffk take know?


I expect this should trend soon, Tinubu calls Madugu gay

Give or take, we are 60 days away from what could turn out to be a hotly contested presidential election. The signs of what will be are already all over the country. Real and contrived endorsements of the perceived four leading gladiators: Labour Party’s Peter Obi; Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abukakar; Bola Ahmed Tinubu of APC; and New Nigeria Peoples Party’s Rabiu Kwankwaso.

In a normal country, only two of the so-called frontrunners should be in the race for the office of the President of Nigeria next year. But our country has since lost virtually all the qualifying indices to be categorised as a normal place. The documented baggage of Tinubu and Atiku are in the public domain. But some of us don’t seem to care. The political parties, which are sponsoring Tinubu (APC) and Atiku (PDP), respectively, are not different from the candidates in terms of their uppity. Interestingly, the English word uppity sounds very much like apiti, which is Igbo for dirt or mud. But of the two obvious evils, one is worse than the other. Tinubu is a far more damaged good than Atiku.

But the problem is that where the country has been taken to by the grossly inept regime of this President, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and his ruling APC does not conduce for us to settle for the lesser of the two evils in the upcoming elections. The situation of the country is grave, graver than the ruling political elite are willing to acknowledge. Hunger is already ravaging the land in spite of claims to the contrary by the spin doctors of Gen. Buhari and the APC. The prognosis and the reading of the global trend is that hunger in Nigeria and in some other countries will get worse in the coming years. The war on Ukraine by Russia will not make the situation any better.

Back home, our bleak future, courtesy of Buhari and APC, is becoming bleaker by the day. Gen. Buhari has since given up on governing the country, that is, if ever he had interest in leading Nigeria since he acceded to the Presidency in 2015. Elsewhere, we had written that, for Buhari, the presidency was a trophy to be won, not a call to duty. His becoming President has been an end in itself.

As Buhari winds down in a wimp, the man who said publicly and repeatedly that he installed Buhari as the President now wants to be President himself. There’s nothing wrong with his “lifelong ambition,” except that there are emergent issues on his aspiration. The one is that Tinubu insists it is the turn of the Yoruba nation to produce the President of Nigeria next year. And since, according to him, it is the Yoruba’s turn, it is his for the taking, which gave rise to ‘emi lo kan’. A statesman of Yoruba extraction has since declared that corruption is embedded in the concept of “emi lo kan.”

Another problem with Tinubu’s candidacy is that it is rooted in blackmail and intimidation. Tinubu went public with the tactics he will deploy to grab the presidential ticket earlier in the year in Ogun. He accused and abused everybody around the venue of his own event, including the state governor who was present and, threatened to pull down the roof if he was denied the APC presidential ticket. He then proceeded to cow other aspirants to the party’s ticket. Those who refused to be cowed were bought with wads of United States dollars, along with delegates to the party’s primary. To rub it in, he disparaged his rivals to the ticket and personally humiliated Vice President Oluyemi Osinbajo right at the Eagle Square venue of the primary. The triumphant Tinubu had to be begged to acknowledge and shake hands with Osinbajo in front of live television cameras.

After Tinubu had procured the ticket he then threw down the gauntlet to other candidates. He declared that he was primed to “fight dirty”to become the President of Nigeria. His then inchoate team went to town for damage control and to give a different meaning to “fighting dirty”. But Tinubu the candidate has since unravelled. He really meant to fight dirty when the ‘jungle matures’.

Part of the strategy of Tinubu is not to be accountable and responsible to anyone, including the electorate. He is corksure that the Buhari template of 2014/2015 will work for him in 2022/2023.

In Chatham House, London, he varied the tactic by deploying ‘teamship’ created by him and for him. Teamship means abdicating responsibility and holding Nigerians in contempt. At home, he engages in the intimidation of non-pliant media outfits. He avoids town hall meetings with rival candidates and shuns live interviews with reporters. In spite of the best efforts by his handlers to shield Tinubu from critical publics, the man has become the favourite of skit makers because of his one-day-one-gaffe proclivity.

With Buhari, Nigerians have lived the full effects of an infirm person as President. Since nature abhors a vacuum, members of the so-called cabal freely effected and perfected state capture. The fear is that the cabal in Buhari’s regime will turn out to be apprentices to that of Tinubu in the unlikely event he becomes President.

We can say that election is about choice and that voters have a right to their choice. But it’s not as simple as that. Those who campaigned for and ensured the election of Buhari in 2015 and 2019 made a choice but their choice, which birthed a failed regime, has taken a toll on virtually all Nigerians. If the looming disaster of a Tinubu presidency will be limited to his current cheerleaders, some of us will keep our peace.

As I wish you happy new year, I pray that 2022 will be the last full year that Nigerians will have the misfortune of living or dying under an APC regime for the foreseeable future.

There is a trending video of a senile Paul Biya, President of Cameroon, at the just concluded US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC. He is called to deliver his speech after President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. He comes out, sits down and starts browsing aimlessly through a pamphlet he is holding. He mutters some words to no one in particular. Then he gets up….People who understand the French spoken in the video say the man acted and said things which showed that he was not aware of where he was and why he was there. Eighty-nine-year-old Biya marked 40 years in power last month. He became president of the Republic of Cameroon on November 6, 1982 and has seen the country and its fortune melt progressively like wax set on fire. The man is the country; his son is positioned to be the future. More than 90 percent of Cameroon’s almost 25 million people have known no other president in their entire lives apart from Biya. They call him ‘father.’ You are likely to say Nigeria can never have a Biya who would sit tight here for 40 years. You may be right – and you will be wrong at the same time. Look at those very old men seeking to be our president in 2023. None of them will win and spend forty years on the throne – merciful nature will take care of that for us. But imagine one of the old men, if he wins, and he wills it, subsequently deciding to buy the throne for his thirty-something-year-old son. We will gladly sell out to him because we are always willing to sell. And, if the son is smarter than the dad, he will be there and get our lawmakers to amend the constitution, and buy power from us for himself and his descendants forever. We have enough foolishness, and madness, and the potential – and the structure- to make that happen.

There will be a Biya in Nigeria unless we demolish and reconstruct Nigeria’s house of abuse. Nigeria’s Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, said that much in Akwa Ibom last week: “The structure they have today is what we want to dismantle. It is a structure of criminality,” he lashed out at the establishment people who have forever held the knife and the yam of Nigeria. The big men, especially Obi’s opponents, taunt him repeatedly that he ‘lacks structure’ to translate his mass appeal and mass following to electoral success in the coming poll. And for them, he had bad news. He said the structure his opponents gloated about “is the structure that produced 133 million people living in poverty, 20 million out-of-school children, and made Nigeria surpass India in infant mortality. It is the structure that destroys us; we want to destroy that structure.” He spoke well, very well – the best words he has uttered since the beginning of this contest. There is no doubt about it that the killer-structure deserves to go if we must save ourselves and the country.

Ask computer engineers what to do to fix a bad system. They will tell you that the first fix is to restart your computer. Sometimes restarting demands force. “If it isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off, then on, try forcing it to restart.” That is the advice from the makers of iPhones. They say so because they are wise. The sensible thing to do when a country is failing, or has failed, is to rework the structure, the parts, including the expansion joints. The pernicious Nigerian structure, if it survives the 2023 elections, will produce more than what Obi said. It will produce leaders worse than Biya – he has a senior, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the president of Equatorial Guinea; that one has been in power since 1979. How long should an era last? His son is also the heir there. We do not yet have a Biya or an Mbasogo family gnawing at our guts but we have a ruling caste feasting on the heart of the system. They’ve narrowed the route to survival and they man the gates. And it will get worse. So, how do we escape that which is coming? Obi B. Egbuna was a Nigerian novelist, short story writer and playwright. He once wrote that “one way to destroy a people is to allow only the fools to survive.” And who is a fool? Plato has a definition: the one who revels in malicious pleasure. Plato’s teacher, Socrates held that mankind is made up of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise – we have them as leaders and followers; both have a role to play in the coming contest for the soul of Nigeria.

One of Obi Egbuna’s most popular works is ‘Destroy this Temple’, a book about defiance and decisiveness against decay. I believe he took that book title from the Bible where Jesus Christ saw an abuse of structure and moved against it. Yesterday was Christmas, the festival of celebrations of Jesus’s birth. How many of those who sang and danced in celebration yesterday live their lives like Christ who left here over 2,000 years ago? He was calm and gentle but there was a lone incident where he lost his cool and went physical against abusers of privileges. The Bible has that instructive story that fits this narrative about breaking down and rebuilding a bad system. Men of advantage had ‘abducted’ the space of the Temple in Jerusalem and turned it into “a den of thieves” and “a house of trade” – a structure for sleaze and greed and hightailed loots of the ruling class. Jesus saw it but didn’t just whine and leave. With whip, he expelled the merchants and the money changers. “And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves” (Mathew 21:12). Bible scholars call this story the cleansing of the Temple narrative. We need a reenactment of this rite in Nigeria. The Nigerian nation is like that Biblical Temple; it has become a haven for bandits and a place of refuge for ‘money changers’ to hold court.

The lesson from the temple story here is that there is no system that cannot be corrupted if the people it serves go to sleep. At the core of that temple incident was money and its corruptive influences. In ‘The Challenge and Spirituality of Catholic Social Teaching’, Marvin L. Mich Krier quotes William Herzog, author of ‘Parables as Subversive Speech’ as arguing that “the Temple cleansing cannot be divorced from the role of the Temple as a bank.” Criminals used “the temple’s outer court to change impure foreign money to temple coins for purchasing sacrificial animals” (Jack Hartjes, 2022). Krier proceeds to further give a scholarly insight into the political economic significance of the Jewish Temple: “In the time of Jesus, the Temple amassed great wealth because of the half-shekel temple tax assessed on each male. Historical evidence supports the fact that large amounts of money were stored in the temple. The temple then was able to make loans on behalf of the wealthy elite to the poor. If the poor were not able to pay their loans, they would lose their land. ‘The temple was, therefore, at the very heart of the system of economic exploitation made possible by monetizing the economy and the concentration of wealth made possible by investing the temple and its leaders with the powers and rewards of a collaborating aristocracy.’ As evidence of this role of temple funds, Herzog notes, ‘it was no accident that one of the first acts of the First Jewish Revolt in 66 C.E. was the burning of debt records in the archives in Jerusalem’ ” (Marvin Krier: 2011).

Just like the Temple in Jerusalem, Nigeria, built with the sweat and blood of all, has become some people’s business empire. It has become a country of public debts for all and private wealth for a select few. The year 2023 is one of decision and desperation. And it is just one blurry week away. We have old presidential candidates, fading and very desperate – because it is their last battle. We have third-force candidates backed by a very desperate youth population, and hordes of the angry poor who talk about taking back their lives from a plundering political elite. What is going to happen? When I heard one of them, Peter Obi, speak in Akwa Ibom with a promise to destroy the structure that has made a fool of honesty in Nigeria, I asked how he was going to do it. Peter Obi told the Nigerian youths: “…you are the next structure. We want to build a better place for our children.” The man obviously has a heart of gold but that is where it ends. Even if he wins, his win will reinforce the pillars of the structure he spoke of destroying. He will be sucked in and initiated fully into the sacred grove of the principalities. So, I think the ultimate solution is the destruction of Nigeria’s faithless temple – using the law. Nigeria is too defective to work. We must employ the law to destroy the temple and create our own “three days” to rebuild it. We need a new temple of justice and fairness to live normal lives. There are, of course, consequences; every act of cleansing has. Those who inherited the odious structure of Nigeria have a duty to keep it for their descendants even if the country’s 200 million people have to go down in the process. The noose is tightening as the darkness lengthens. The options are not pleasant and are not many. Protests and protestations will amount to nothing in the new year. One of the big presidential candidates told us last week. But good people everywhere must not keep quiet – and must resist being silenced by those who think they alone have a voice. At the same time, we should know that he who chooses to pray for the street madman must not close his eyes. And if you are moving against insanity, your footfall must wear shoes of silence at all times. The world has always been a dangerous place to practise iconoclasm. David Landry, a professor in Theology at the University of St. Thomas, United States, is quoted variously by other scholars as pointing out to us that “within a week” of Jesus fighting the principalities in the Temple, he was dead. Landry cites the disciples, Matthew, Mark, and Luke as agreeing that the Temple cleansing event “functioned as the ‘trigger’ for Jesus’s death.” Krier also tells of these consequences. He points at the book of Mark where Jesus accused the merchants of making the Temple a den of robbers: “And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him.” Nigeria will not kill us.

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2023.

Brendaniel:
President Peter Obi

Chelseanababa:
Answer: Your father, your grand father and your great grand father

duro4chang:
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the best man for the job.The incoming president. The game changer. The man who we need now

Crystalom5:
Why would you want to vote for this man?