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PoliticsRe: Video Of Kastina Residents Burning Brooms Dangerous Precedent For Nigerian Unity by floret23(f): 6:58pm On Aug 19, 2022
LogicnReason:
So let them vote for Peter Obi. Or do you think its fair for the north to come back for another 8 years through Atiku?
It better for North to rule forever instead of muslim-terrorist ticket of APC. I am obedient though.
PoliticsRe: BREAKING: Peter Obi Gifted Massive Structure In Edo, 'Obidents' Excited by floret23(op): 6:02pm On Aug 19, 2022
Illuminatiship:
I know this house in particular and I know ray royal will never give it out easily like that..
You meant Ejaina House at Esan North
PoliticsRe: BREAKING: Peter Obi Gifted Massive Structure In Edo, 'Obidents' Excited by floret23(op): 5:48pm On Aug 19, 2022
SmartPolician:
This donation was made months ago
Maybe this is the one you are talking about.

PoliticsBREAKING: Peter Obi Gifted Massive Structure In Edo, 'Obidents' Excited by floret23(op): 5:33pm On Aug 19, 2022
The Labour Party’s drive to improve its lack of ‘structure’ ahead of the 2023 general election has been given a major boost.

The follows the post on the Facebook fan page of the vice presidential candidate, Dr Yusuf Datti Ahmed that the party has been gifted an office building at Esan North East in Edo State.

According to the post, the building was given by a supporter of Peter Obi in furtherance of the dream of winning the polls in 2023.

“Labour Party has received the gift of a Secretariat at Esan North East from another Obidient. A magnificent property is popularly known as Ejaina House, located opposite Eguare Primary School, Uromi, Edo State. Inauguration/Launch date of LG and Ward Structure of the Labour Party is August 20, 2022,” the post reads.

See comments below

Chinomso Uwalaka: When it is a people’s movement, resources to actualize it always come in excess! Those who said that Obi doesn’t have structure should wait until campaigns start proper!!

Engr Olayemi Obasa: Dear Peter Obi supporters, if you apply for PVC last year, go the nearest INEC and collect your PVC card. We are OBIdiently YUSful.

Hyacinth Christian: Obi Datti belong to nobody Obi Datti belong to everybody may God bless the donor labour party all the way.

Nicholas Opara: Very soon in Edo state the story will be”wetin do am,him go shout vote tnubu for Benin. obi is the best.be Obident and yusuful.

Bessong Lifu Okorie: The structureless Labour Party as supposed by many is gradually gaining structures.Very soon Billions Both in Naira & Foreign currencies will start coming out for support. Above all in OBIDIENT,i stand so help us God!.

Mr Dove: Now people are building up the structure for him.

Be Obidiently Yusuful in 2023

Baridilo Dee: Wonderful! Wonderful!! Wonderful!!! This will soon be replicated in all the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT.

Akpama N. Sampson: OBIDENT YUSUF FAMILY ARE GROWING STRONGER AND STRONGER EVERY DAY. CONGRATULATION AND GOD BLESSED EVERY OBIDENT YUSUF FAMILY
https://olamore.com/breaking-peter-obi-gifted-massive-structure-edo-obidents-excited/

PoliticsRe: Muslim-Muslim Ticket: They Have Set A Trap For Tinubu – Yunusa Nmadu Jnr by floret23(op): 5:18pm On Aug 19, 2022
Princebizzie:
These pastors don't understand politics, your are by your statement promoting him among Muslims and some of us that are Christians who understand the necessity that made him to chose Muslim-Muslim ticket will bless him with our votes, so you better go and rest on this. You people that are Christians and call yourself pastors are busy stealing tithe and offering in the Church and you think you have any moral right to come and be selling lying Obituary for us. Do you realize that we have brains and we can use it? Let everyone vote for their preferred candidate, stop confusing people and go and face the Gospel
LoL

I am actually sorry for you. Shame on those who borrowed your destiny for crumbs that fall from politicians' table. Is that how Tinubu's children made their own billions? For how long are you going to be doing this dirty job? I really really pity you dear.

May you eyes be opened before it is too late.

PoliticsRe: PFN Rejects Muslim-Muslim Ticket, Says It Stands By CAN's Decision by floret23(op): 5:17pm On Aug 19, 2022
Occurstaem:
Hypocrites and PFN.
Where were they when that is happening in Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states on Christian-Christian tickets?
LoL

I am actually sorry for you. Shame on those who borrowed your destiny for crumbs that fall from politicians' table. Is that how Tinubu's children made their own billions? For how long are you going to be doing this dirty job? I really really pity you dear.

May you eyes be opened before it is too late.
PoliticsRe: APC's 'Free Food For Four Years' Campaign Angers Nigerians by floret23(op): 5:16pm On Aug 19, 2022
JASONjnr:
You can't verify impossible things....


Tinubu will never lead a country like Nigeria having a vice with the same faith....

Abiola tried it and it failed.....

As far as this country is concerned, anytime a Yoruba Muslim is contesting and decides to pick a Muslim from the north, it will always fail.

You claimed to be a Christian but 6ou can only lie to yourself. No sane Christian will support this move.
Batified2023 PandoraObi heliues etrouble

Come and get the truth free of charge.
PoliticsRe: APC's 'Free Food For Four Years' Campaign Angers Nigerians by floret23(op): 5:14pm On Aug 19, 2022
BATified2023:
Tinubu is a bas**rd
LoL

I am actually sorry for you. Shame on those who borrowed your destiny for crumbs that fall from politicians' table. Is that how Tinubu's children made their own billions? For how long are you going to be doing this dirty job? I really really pity you dear.

May you eyes be opened before it is too late.
PoliticsRe: Muslim-Muslim Ticket: They Have Set A Trap For Tinubu – Yunusa Nmadu Jnr by floret23(op): 5:13pm On Aug 19, 2022
Ak83:
you will eventualy comit suicide whn ASIWAJU IS declared winner.
LoL

I am actually sorry for you. Shame on those who borrowed your destiny for crumbs that fall from politicians' table. Is that how Tinubu's children made their own billions? For how long are you going to be doing this dirty job? I really really pity you dear.

May you eyes be opened before it is too late.
PoliticsRe: 3 Soldiers captured alive by IPOB and Unknown Gunmen 2day In Ebonyi PHOTOS by floret23(f): 12:06am On Aug 19, 2022
OyigboUpdate:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02u83WdDo4ts9dBDeWuUhdS6AntCnqYb8MeT7Li3m2MhS4sdfBcREEUM1K6pPkgn9Dl&id=108873745000342
If I were you, I would go and arrest unknown gunmen. I know you can do this as a patriotic citizen.
PoliticsPFN Rejects Muslim-Muslim Ticket, Says It Stands By CAN's Decision by floret23(op): 12:03am On Aug 19, 2022
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) on Thursday, in Lagos, insisted that it would not support any political party that is presenting candidates of the same religious faith for a leadership position and their deputies across levels of government in the forthcoming general elections in the country.

It says the decision is in line with the position of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), which is an umbrella body of all Christians in the country.

Addressing newsmen shortly after its NEC meeting in Lagos, the National Secretary of PFN, Bishop Cosmos Ilechukwu said even though the group had no particular candidate nor party in focus as it is not a partisan organisation, any political party with candidates of the same faith ticket, be it Christian-Christian or Muslim-Muslim at all levels would not be supported.

He said NEC discussed this issue at the meeting just like many other issues of concern to the generality of Nigerians including the church such as the rising cases of terrorism, kidnapping, banditry and other criminalities which he said had further worsened the situation of the country before coming with the position.

PFN scribe said the church was very concerned about the state of the country and would continue to uphold the country and the leadership in prayer.

He said even in the face of the unprecedented level of disunity currently experienced in the country, some political parties and politicians could disregard the fragility of this time and rather take decisions that would further polarise the country.

He said a particular reference was that despite the group’s advice to all the political parties that a same faith ticket, be it Christian-Christian or Muslim-Muslim, would not augur well for the unity and future of Nigeria, some political parties chose to ignore that counsel.

“So, PFN now reaffirms its position that the same faith ticket can, in no way, be justified, as it is not in the interest of Nigeria, as it further jeopardises the prospects of peaceful co-existence and building of a united nation.

“PFN is non a partisan group. It has never endorsed any candidate nor a political party for any position in any general election in the country.

“And we shall remain to be non- partisan also in the 2023 general election.

“However, as we shall continue to encourage our members to fully participate in the 2023 general election as we had been doing. We will encourage them to vote in line with what is best for the country and also for the church at all levels.


“This is based on the framework prepared by CAN which is our umbrella body as our guide.

“So, PFN will continue to engage and collaborate with like-minded organisations and individuals to ensure that the 2023 general elections deliver to Nigerians and the Nigeria a ticket that will further unite the country in line with the general expectations and prayers of the good people of Nigeria.”


Bishop Cosmos, however, added that as a group, PFN would continue to be open and broad-minded and leave the door of engagement with all political parties open, so that all the issues that are holding back the development and unity of the country can be comprehensively addressed.
https://tribuneonlineng.com/again-pfn-rejects-muslim-muslim-ticket-says-its-cans-position/

PoliticsRe: APC's 'Free Food For Four Years' Campaign Angers Nigerians by floret23(op): 12:02am On Aug 19, 2022
Moh247:
Obituary Supporters Na him dey even help us Campaign about opening multiple threads
No to Druggie-Terrorist ticket
No to islamisation agenda
No to Tinubu the place holder

Tinubu ti lu'le patapata grin
PoliticsRe: Muslim-Muslim Ticket: They Have Set A Trap For Tinubu – Yunusa Nmadu Jnr by floret23(op): 12:00am On Aug 19, 2022
Moh247:
So why exactly are you wailing?! Why

Shouldn't you be happy since you claim he won't win

Ofcoarse you are shit scared as your deepest fear is Tinubu Presidency when Ibos couldn't even win Deputy Senate President anymore

You are so scared that Muslim would lead you again and again back to back and this makes you agitated but you pretend


Anyways you also no your 5% changes nothing

So go and get your Biafra flag ready
Tinubu's surpporters are either cultists, terrorists or tribalist like Mohammed above. More examples are Hell Rufai Shetima Gandollar MC Oluomo Oluwo of Iwo, Kabaka, Asari Dokubo, and Other society errors.
PoliticsRe: APC's 'Free Food For Four Years' Campaign Angers Nigerians by floret23(op): 11:56pm On Aug 18, 2022
floret23:
APC's 'Free Food For Four Years' Campaign Angers Nigerians

https://www.mynigeria.com/NigeriaHomePage/NewsArchive/APC-s-Free-Food-For-Four-Years-campaign-angers-Nigerians-581150
PandoraObi heliues omenkaLives omenka AntiChrist Mannabbqgrill etrouble moh247 Batified2023 BATstards etc, for more lies, text APC to 419 grin
PoliticsMuslim-Muslim Ticket: They Have Set A Trap For Tinubu – Yunusa Nmadu Jnr by floret23(op): 11:38pm On Aug 18, 2022
The General Secretary of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Rev. Yunusa Nmadu Jnr has alleged that the Muslim-Muslim ticket fielded by the All Progressives Congress, APC, is a plot for its candidate, Bola Tinubu, to fail the 2023 presidential election.

Nmadu insisted that those who advised Tinubu to nominate the former Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima as his running mate do not mean well for him and they have simply laid a trap for him to fail.

The ECWA scribe said this while speaking to journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday.

He added that the same faith ticket was also an insult to other faith in the land.

He said, “Those who are the flying the Muslim-Muslim ticket either in Kaduna State or at the Federal level, to be categorical, have failed the examination already.

“This is not in the interest of the Muslims neither is it in the interest of the Christians. I will never support the same faith ticket even if it is Christian-Christian ticket where both faiths are almost equal.

“Of course, there are states where there is nothing you can do about it, especially in a predominantly Muslim state, you can’t go there and ask for a Muslim-Christian ticket. It’s understandable. And there are states that are predominantly Christians that you can’t go and ask for Christian-Muslim ticket.

But I don’t know how anybody in their political calculation will ever think they will win an election in Nigeria without the Christians or win an election in Nigeria without the Muslims or win an election without people of no faith.

“This is our country. We are so divided that in the last seven years, the gap has increased so wide and it is expected that any government that is coming in now, should emphasise more on unity and how to bring the people together.”

He maintained that the Muslim-Muslim ticket was dead on arrival and it was not in the best interest of the country.

“I believe again that this is my personal opinion, that because they want him to fail the election, they are asking him to do it so that he can fail and fail very well

“Muslim-Muslim ticket is divisive; it does not encourage cohesion; it does not bring the country together and what we need now more than ever before is national unity and we need whoever that will bring us together, respecting everyone.


“Again, some of the reasons they gave for the same faith ticket is so mundane and so unintellectual. For instance, they said that we should be concerned about those who are coming to fix the country and not concern about religion.

“Are we saying those to fix the country are only found in one faith? They are also saying that its about competence. For me, I find that very insulting.

“What they are saying is that ‘we search as it is traditional from other faith and we could not find anybody that is competent’. That argument hold doesn’t hold water,” he added.
https://www./2022/08/16/muslim-muslim-ticket-they-have-set-a-trap-for-tinubu-ecwa-scribe/?amp

CrimeRe: Urgent Message To All Southerners, Especially Yorubas In South-west by floret23(op): 11:36pm On Aug 18, 2022
Self-defense is illegal in Fulani's Nigeria but it is expedient. We can't continue to watch as government's sponsored terrorists continue to kill with reckless abandon.
PoliticsAPC's 'Free Food For Four Years' Campaign Angers Nigerians by floret23(op): 11:20pm On Aug 18, 2022

CrimeRe: Urgent Message To All Southerners, Especially Yorubas In South-west by floret23(op): 10:47pm On Aug 18, 2022
RingRoadMafia:
What baffles me the most is how you people will know all these things and still be looking for how to enthrone another Fulani man or two Muslims which one of them is fataly sick and the guy who succeeds him in the event that he dies is ANOTHER BOKO HARAM SYMPATHIZER.

When will you people have sense in this country for chrissakes?
Tinubu is a place holder for Terrorist Shetima. Afghanistan is loading...
CrimeUrgent Message To All Southerners, Especially Yorubas In South-west by floret23(op): 10:12pm On Aug 18, 2022
IN THE COMING WEEKS ...WARNING!

Take note:

1. Do not report any Fulani herdsman to police.

2. Simply take deterrent action.

3. Monitor every stranger in your midst, trust none.

4. Disengage every stranger from domestic jobs.

5. Let every community/village have warring vigilante groups.

6. Never gather at one place for any discussion.

7. Train yourself for emergencies, never sleep without protective material.

8. Obey the instincts of your domestic animals, they alert you on certain dangers.

9. Use a whistle or metal gong to alert everyone.

10. Mind your movements, be conscious of your environment.

11. Don’t buy from strangers or unknown Northerners.

12. Be ready for battle.

13. Don’t talk too much, just plan.

14. Let"s defend our homeland.

DANGER IS SMELLING

Some of the Abokis you connect with...
To fetch you water,
To clean up your shoes,
To sew your clothes,
To help you dispose off your refuse,
To help you have your nails or hair cut,
That sells fruits, suya or food stuffs,
The iron condemns boys,
The Maiguard,
The Maitea,
The okada riders,
Your gatemen and night securitymen,
Etc.
'ARE ALL ACTING AS INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS FOR BOKO HARAM, BANDITS, ANSARU AND ISWAP.

This is according to the information extracted from a top terrorist Commander arrested couple of weeks back in Ogun State.

PLEASE, LET'S BE MORE CAREFUL WITH THE WAY AND MANNER WE RELATE WITH THIS CATEGORY OF PEOPLE MENTIONED ABOVE.

IF POSSIBLE DISENGAGE THEM FOR THE PURPOSE OF YOUR SAFETY AND THAT OF YOU FAMILY AS A WHOLE.

Peace be unto everyone reading or hearing this message.

This is a very important message to all yoruba men and women. Boko haram has joined forces with Fulani herdsmen/Bandits, in Nigeria. They have strategised and gathered ammunitions and weapons. They are set for WAR.

Let us also plan, strategised and get prepared so that it won't catch us unaware!

Gbogbo Omo Yoruba, Oduduwa a ja fun wa o.

https://www.facebook.com/104279271785831/posts/pfbid02ctm8oC6TSK6vtfEPqiL37TVNPLEqoELvp1CAaanp2nQaNZo742Ksp4cUMDRVeZU1l/?app=fbl

PoliticsSame Faith Ticket Is Insensitive, Says El-buba by floret23(op): 3:59pm On Aug 16, 2022
President and General Overseer of Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International (EBOMI), Prophet Isa El – Buba, has said the Muslim-Muslim ticket of All progressive Congress, (APC) for the 2023 presidential election will not succeed.

According to him, there is so much mistrust and division in Nigeria at the moment, that make it difficult for any party that produces Muslim-Muslim ticket to win elections, because the current situation in the county calls for healing and reconciliation among Nigerians. Prophet E-l Buba who stated this while.

Speaking with Journalists at the weekend in Jos, noted that going by the current political development in Nigeria where Nigerians find their comfort even amid discomfort in their faith, Nigerians still want to be identified with their faith.

“When President Muhammadu Buhari came on board in 2015, Muslims were elected the Senate President, Speaker of House of Representatives, and the National Chairman of the party, a situation that makes the rest of Nigerians begin to nurse fears that there is an agenda”

According to him, nobody should think the situations in 1993 and now are the same, stressing that the present situation in the county is different from what was on the ground in 1993 during the time of MKO Abiola when his party featured a Muslim-Muslim ticket. He said Nigerians are so divided at this present time because of a lack of trust, saying both Christians and Muslims should not be deprived of what belongs to them in the various political parties as they prepare to go to the polls in 2023.

El- Buba said that nobody can be more righteous than God, even as he stated that from his findings, the population of Christians in Northern Nigeria is over 50 million, adding that Northern Nigeria does not only make up of states in the far North but also includes Middle-Belt states such as Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue, Niger and Kwara. He also described the recent appointment of Governor Lalong as the DG as an insult to the Christian community in the North.
https://www.newtelegraphng.com/same-faith-ticket-is-insensitive-says-el-buba/

PoliticsRe: Prof Banji Akintoye To General Muhammadu: Let My People Go! By Bayo Oluwasanmi by floret23(op): 7:09am On Aug 16, 2022
SmartPolician:
Those who push for Oduduwa Republic have no idea what their tribe gains from being in Nigeria. Imagine when over 200 million people have to import and export almost everything they need through Lagos. Now you want to break away from that juicy, strategic position to form one yeye country.

I always tell those who care to listen that the South West is the biggest beneficiary of one Nigeria. Lagos being the commercial capital of Nigeria means that other states in the region will benefit from an expanding Lagos commercial enterprise. We have seen many companies move to Ogun. Oyo will follow suit when Ogun is saturated. That's the benefit that comes with being the commercial capital of over 200 million people.

Same goes for companies with head offices in Lagos, banks, critical federal government agencies, etc. Buhari terribly mismanaged Nigeria's unity. Some of the challenges we face today will end the moment he leaves the office. Sadly, Osinbajo's impact wasn't felt in this administration.
I quiet agree with you. If you remove Lagos Ports (Nigeria Ports) and Niger Delta oil, Lagos state will struggle to survive not because we don't have resources but because we don't have good and sound leaders.
PoliticsRe: Obi Will win But Will APC Deliver Free Presidential Election by floret23(f): 6:44am On Aug 16, 2022
They don't have option except they want to go against the current electoral laws and experience Endsars protests 2.0. More so, I don't Buhari's cabals who are in charge of INEC are interested in Tinubu. They may allow free election to protest against him.
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi: Bad Leadership Holding Nigeria Down, Not 1999 Constitution by floret23(f): 6:44am On Aug 16, 2022
Like for Peter Obi

Share for Tinubu
PoliticsRe: Picture Of Peter Obi, Ikpeazu, Wike, Dankwambo, Duke, Ortom & Others Yesterday. by floret23(f): 6:36am On Aug 16, 2022
Sannisege:
ok a younger criminal is better right?
If someone calls your father a criminal how would you feel?
PoliticsRe: Picture Of Peter Obi, Ikpeazu, Wike, Dankwambo, Duke, Ortom & Others Yesterday. by floret23(f): 6:35am On Aug 16, 2022
Sannisege:
And they want us to believe that Obi is different.
I understand you bro but this is democracy where the game is by number. He needs the votes of those people and their surpporters to win. More, Nigeria belong to all of us. That's why Tinubu like romancing with touts and thugs and that's why northern governors like romancing with terrorists and bandits. It's because they want votes.

I can't blame much because, if you don't want them, others who may be worse than you will out to them before you and use them against you. However, change is gradual. Nigeria will surely get to a level where surpport of criminals would no longer be needed to win elections.

You can't expect Peter Obi to shun them because they are influencers on their own capacity. Each of them has influence on thousands of voters.

This is the secret that Omoyele Sowore does not know and that's why he won't win his polling unit even if he contest hundred times. He is forming saint after working with APC to install disaster Buhari on Nigeria.
PoliticsProf Banji Akintoye To General Muhammadu: Let My People Go! By Bayo Oluwasanmi by floret23(op): 6:13am On Aug 16, 2022
Prof Banji Akintoye To General Muhammadu: Let My People Go! By Bayo Oluwasanmi

The Fulani feudal regime has deprived Yorubas of their ethnicity and culture. They have been deprived of our sense of direction and purpose.

Professor Banji Akintoye, the renowned historian and leader of the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, Ilana Omo Oodua, in his letter to General Muhammadu Buhari, offers a new version of the Exodus story, the Bible’s most enduring political narrative.

Faced with institutional, cultural, economic, social, and political persecution and oppression, the Emeritus Professor Akintoye, laid out in eloquent narrative why Yoruba must exit Nigeria NOW! For Yoruba, Nigeria has become a bondage of sin, a wilderness of wanderings and woes, a colony of despair and death, a jungle of poverty and persecution.

Just like Machiavelli would end The Prince (1513) by calling on the Medici to play the part of Moses and “liberate Italy from the barbarian yoke,” so also Akintoye as the Moses of Yoruba people is calling on Buhari, the symbol and strength of Fulani hegemony and terrorism - to let Yoruba people go.

Buhari’s government has stripped Yoruba people of their dignity. Buhari has stripped Yorubas of their own indigenous values, institutions, and heritage. We Yorubas are more than physical characteristics, more than language, song, and dance. It is the embodiment of our values, institutions, and patterns of behaviour, a composite whole representing our historical experience, aspirations, and worldview. The Fulani feudal regime has deprived Yorubas of their ethnicity and culture. They have been deprived of our sense of direction and purpose.

The 1914 British Amalgamation of Nigeria, brought Yoruba and other ethnicities together with little or no regard for their common characteristics or distinctive attributes. We were placed in new administrative frameworks, governed by new values, new institutions, and new operational principles and techniques. With the imposition of Fulani hegemony, Yorubas were forced under the rule and control of the central government with the ultimate power from barbaric foreign outsiders- the Fulanis. Buhari and his Fulani terrorists came riding roughshod over Yorubas.

The framework for national unity was not based on consensus. Not based on mutual respect, understanding, and agreement. Sixty-two years of ethnic rivalry and acrimonious rancour, instability, violence, and insecurity, that stemmed from our ethnic differences, underscores the intensity of disunity. Because the Fulani oligarchy rejected reason and logic, they failed to agree to civilized acceptable norms and means of managing our diversity within the framework of unity and peace. Thus stability continues to elude the pluralistic composition that made up Nigeria. For Buhari, the Butcher of Aso Rock, to disregard Yoruba ethnic realities, would be to continue to build Nigeria on loose sand - a high-risk exercise.

To paraphrase the great theologian and icon of civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Yorubas have got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter to us now. We have looked over the new Yoruba Nation. We have seen the Promised Land. But we want to let Buhari and his evil regime know that we as Yoruba people will get to the Promised Land.

https://saharareporters.com/articles/professor-banji-akintoye-general-muhammadu-let-my-people-go-bayo-oluwasanmi?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

PoliticsRe: Buhari Brought Religion To A Level That Is Destroying Nigeria – Bishop Ighele by floret23(op): 5:45am On Aug 16, 2022
In the spirit of fairness, it's the turn of southerners particularly south east. And it is unfair for Islam'ic Buhari to hand over to another Islamist. It is Christian's turn.
PoliticsBuhari Brought Religion To A Level That Is Destroying Nigeria – Bishop Ighele by floret23(op): 12:07am On Aug 16, 2022
Buhari Brought Religion, Ethnicity And Sectionalism To A Level That Is Almost Destroying Nigeria – Bishop Ighele

The General Superintendent of Holy Spirit Mission Church (a.k.a Happy Family Centre), Charles Ighele, recently spoke with members of the Association of Christian Correspondents of Nigeria (ACCON) at his residence in Lagos; where he highlighted the socio-political implication of the Moslem/Moslem ticket of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and other national issues. Excerpts by SEYI JOHN SALAU:

What is your view on the overall security security of the country?

In the Hobbesian world, we talk about society of those days, the state of nature where life was short, brutish and nasty, which we call the Hobbesian state of nature; we have come to that stage. And when things go like that, the national security adviser is telling us to be security conscious, telling us to secure Abuja, so that Abuja does not fall, O God! Where are we? My advice is this, yes we should be security conscious. We are security conscious and then 100 people on bikes with guns come to your village, how can you fight back?

We have security forces, many from the army, police, civil defence, 800,000 to one million armed people in this country, where are they? I can’t blame them, because they are not motivated. The bandits are not more than 100, 000 and our forces are over a million combined, including immigration, customs and the rest who are normally armed.

I said some time ago when they said to change the service chiefs, I said, well, I have no objection, but if you bring American service chiefs to come and be in charge with that kind of leadership we have, things will be the same. Our soldiers are not motivated to fight; the love for their father land is not put in them. Tobi Amusan won gold some days ago, I mean, I was saying it was her effort.

Then when Chioma Ajunwa who won gold in Long Jump years ago, when they interviewed her, how do you feel over Tobi Amusan, she said that the girl had been suffering, and then she found her way, she is on scholarship in US, our top athletes are there in American Universities, they struggle, then after honour to the nation, you come out to say, our girl; which girl?

She is not your girl. Now, for you to go and fight and die you must be motivated, how can I go to fight against a superior weapon, when billions of Naira that was voted to buy weapons cannot be accounted for.

El- Rufai has been saying they know where these Boko Haram insurgents are, they know where they are; so a leader, a president, of a whole country, who enjoys being in power alone, feeling good about being in power, and using power to do good for the common man, no, so that is where the problem is.

When Obasanjo was there, the security forces were dealt a blow at Odi in Niger Delta and Zakibiam in Benue State, when Obasanjo descended on them, I am not saying he did it well, he overreacted, but let me tell you, they kept quiet. What are you telling me?

ASUU has been on strike for about six months now. What is your view on our education system?

Something happened that I couldn’t do what I planned to do over the ASUU strike issue. I was to make a placard and T-shirt for myself and my wife to go to the street in support of the ASUU strike. Primary school destroyed; you see, nobody who earns even N50, 000 a month will say my child goes to a public primary school: secondary school destroyed. In some schools about 500 pupils use one toilet.

The teachers, many cannot speak good English; so people are taking their children from public primary schools to private primary schools. Secondary school, and now university education is also destroyed and people cannot take their children to private universities.

So, ASUU is fighting for the whole educational system whereby our children can finish from the University of Lagos, University of Ife and they go out to the US or UK and pick a job, but right now they cannot, because many of them are not competent. I have had people who passed through us and then went abroad to study.

They could not meet up; so now they have to sit again to get things done. So, the entire education system has failed completely. Go to the universities, look at their toilets, compare them to the university of Ife in the 70s, O my God, the central cafeteria was like a three or four star hotel, everything in order.

With 10 kobo in the morning you have nine slices of bread, with an egg, with either coffee, that is as much as you can take, or tea or beverage, the Quaker Oats all those things, N10 kobo. Lunch, N20 Kobo, either eba or Semovita, or Amala with different kinds of soup, two heavy chunks of meat with ice-cream.

Then in the evening, night meal, fruit must accompany it, do you understand, but now the whole system has crumbled. So, every right-thinking Nigerian should support the overhauling of the educational system. Look – in the US, my grandchildren who are there; they attend public primary school because there is no need to go to private primary school because they are well taken care of.

Do you know my grandson who is in primary five or six was given a project to write on. The project was on agriculture. He came home and said Dad my project is on George Washington Carver, they said no it is George Washington, he said Carver; they went to Google and found out that there was one man called George Washington Carver who changed the agriculture system in America, we said chai! Primary School!

Things have to be done well. Now, every right-thinking Nigerian should support the ASUU strike. The president said enough is enough, and then after that nothing; now I am telling him president enough is enough. Now I don’t know whether it is true; the Sunday Telegraph reports on how we want to use N3.1billion to modernise Customs- loan to modernise customs? Now you see the extra crude account that Obasanjo saved, the minister announced it has depleted from billions upon billions.

In June it was thirty something million dollars, in July, it was hundred and something thousand Dollars, less than half a million dollars. I listened to Prof Pat Utomi when he was being interviewed and other people also. It was Adam Smith who is known to be the father of capitalism and people always see him as a capitalist but he has written a book before on morality, the moral behind it but we forget the morality behind the story.

He wrote that book, ‘The Wealth of Nations’, why are some nations richer than other nations? And then he brought these four things: Capital, entrepreneur, land and labour. The educational system produces the labour force, look at what MAN said, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria some years ago, it said when they employ Nigerian graduates; it takes them time to retrain them.

Talking about election in relation to level of electoral awareness. Getting the right education system, for instance, begins with electing right people into government. The level of apathy among Nigerians, particularly Christians, has always been high; what can be done to change this trend ahead 2023?

When Buhari won in the last election, one of the papers interviewed me, the way they placed it, it was two pages, so they said this is the worst election in Nigeria’s history, then one other general, whether Shagaya or so, said this is the best election in Nigeria’s history. What I meant was this: in terms of religious content, the election was free and fair; it reflected the will of the people, yes there was rigging here and there; this was the 2015 election that brought Buhari to power.

So, I like to be as honest as possible, though I didn’t vote for him, my brother Professor Osinbajo, my Christian brother was there but I didn’t vote for him because I saw what was going to happen, and leaders of the church in this country they know my stand on that and why I took that stand. And now I am being vindicated; yes, I saw it coming. So, the election was generally free and fair.

But my religious content was huge, the president then would go to churches, go to crusades and address people and then the Moslems would do their own quietly in the Mosques, and I said this is dangerous, and now it has become more dangerous: Christians brother versus Moslem brother, it has become more dangerous. We have never been as divided as we are right now along religious lines.

And Northern Moslems, people like Babachair, Dogara, I mean people like Saduana of Sokoto – the premier of the Northern Region, in those days, he tried on how he would bring out one north with the ethnic groups, the people in Southern Kaduna were not being killed, now all that is no more.

I really find it shameful to say Christians do this, Moslems do this; but I see that we are in a country where the forces of ‘centripetalism’ should be at work than those of ‘centrifugalism’, we should see how we unite our people; they should not use religion to destroy our people.

All our best books I have today are the books written by the Emir of Dubai on Development. Development knows no religion; the Emir of Dubai has developed Dubai, I like to read about development as a preacher. And when I read that book, my God, my vision!

You see, at a stage one begins to feel oppressed, and I have never been like this before. This President, this particular President, Muhammadu Buhari, he brought religion to a level, ethnicity to a level, sectionalism to a level, that it is almost destroying the nation, I hold him responsible; he is to be held responsible for everything, because you know, you have followers and these followers they are afraid to talk to you.

You know the story of a king who danced naked, yes sir, yes sir, you fart, you fart, the people say yes sir, this your fart can make good perfume, put it in a bottle, sycophants everywhere, but you have to stand as a leader.

He has failed woefully. I have no apology about it at all. You see people under him dancing to the bad music he has produced, because there must always be a party. In a party you prepare all the food, isn’t it? Then the music is not okay, people will still dance, he has produced bad music, and good people and bad people are dancing to the bad music.

Finally, one issue that will not disappear from our political space is the Moslem/Moslem ticket by the All Progressives Congress (APC); as a political scientist, what is your view on this?

I don’t think I have anything against Bola Ahmed Tinubu, personally. I have nothing against him. I know the time he was governor of Lagos State, that time I was still in Benin, Edo State before I moved to Lagos, when he took over from Colonel Buba Marwa, and Marwa was quite charismatic, he was popular.

When Tinubu now took over as governor of Lagos State, for the first year there was some criticism; he was not performing well, then he rejigged, and I said on my pulpit in Benin City; I said watch out for this man, he is a strategist. This man will go somewhere high, he is a planner, and so that was my impression of him.

So, I see him do all these – I am not surprised. I told my church then, he would go somewhere, not as a prophecy but by seeing how he was trying to see how to get Lagos on a developmental process, which I like.

So, it is not about Asiwaju Bola Tinubu but my concern is this, and this is what is disturbing me seriously. Now, if he wins as president and he serves for two terms of eight years, which means under a Moslem/Moslem ticket, when it now gets back to North, another eight years, they will give it to another northerner, another Moslem/Moslem will surely have it, and it is quite suffocating.

During MKO Abiola; myself and my wife were enthusiastic, we queued up and voted for him, so my concern is what I told you right now. It is suffocating. Is it that there is no competent Christian, but now Buhari eight years, if Tinubu wins, eight years, that’s 16 years, and then it goes North again, eight years; that means 24 years, haba! It is suffocating, so that is really my concern.

https://businessday.ng/amp/interview/article/buhari-brought-religion-ethnicity-and-sectionalism-to-a-level-that-is-almost-destroying-nigeria-bishop-ighele/

PoliticsRe: You Can’t Use Me To De-market Obi, Archbishop Chukwuma Tells Peter Obi's Enemies by floret23(op): 11:59pm On Aug 15, 2022
Karen2024:
What a stupid and dumb comment?
It seems Tinubu's rented urchins are running m*d already. Their comments do not in any way tally or connected to the subject of Discuss. Like Tinubu like his rented surpporters.
PoliticsRe: You Can’t Use Me To De-market Obi, Archbishop Chukwuma Tells Peter Obi's Enemies by floret23(op): 11:52pm On Aug 15, 2022
Arysexy:
Better explanation.

Like me I'm OBIdient at federal but APGA at state.

No politician should hide under OBIdient to claim position.
Same here in Osun State. We are Obedient at federal level but Imole at state level. APC is currently in comatose in Osun State - ipinle Omoluabi.
PoliticsConfession: 'Tinubu's Hired One Million Social Media Surpporters But...' (video) by floret23(op): 11:48pm On Aug 15, 2022
Confession Time: 'Tinubu's Hired One Million Social Media Surpporters But We Are Only Seeing Less Hundred Working' (Leaked Video)

These guys are obviously jittery. Dear Obidients keep the Faith and keep the Tempo, we are winning.

Please watch and listen to this: https://www.facebook.com/100054126652820/videos/1122586805006061/?app=fbl

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