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That is what you think.

The ones send to igboland are in good hands. God will continue to bless them.

True talk.

Mr. Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria.

As this present administration is doing?

It can only be Igbos.

I know Tinubu will avoid it.

Kenyamo cannot dictate to a grown up boy on how to run his life.

Tinubu cannot be the president of Nigeria.

So APC is not yet tired of this blame game? GEJ will still be blamed for Tinubu's failure. God forbid BAT thing.

Okealaaye:
Farooq Kperoggi On Obi

Nigerian Tribune

22nd October, 2023

Excerpts

When Obi ran for governor of Anambra State, he pledged that he would so improve the education in the state that his children would return from the UK to attend Anambra schools. Well, his children not only still live abroad and never went to school in Nigeria, they’re citizens of a foreign country.

As I pointed out when Obi released his presidential campaign list that was riddled with avoidable duplications and omissions, a man who couldn’t be bothered to even look at the list of his campaign council members—or, if he did, didn’t know enough to know people who should be in it—won’t be any different from the people we have had in the past.

The attributes people venerate in him were also projected onto Buhari in 2014/2015. One of my Obi-supporting friends said Obi “Not being greedy or avaricious on issues of money, not being flamboyant by living like a king while millions wallow in poverty, being able to save, being accessible to the people, listening to the people, etc.” are the proofs we need to know that he will be different as a president.

people said exactly the same of Buhari. But see what he became. Being in power is different from seeking power. Attributes such as access, empathy, etc. often disappear as sure as tomorrow’s date when people get to power. I am friends with a man who used to be close to Buhari because he used to tell him uncomfortable but helpful truths. The man’s relationship with Buhari endured only a few months after Buhari became president.

Like Buhari, Obi is popular with a core demographic that is animated by religious and ethnic politics. On ethnic and religious tolerance, his record isn’t different from Buhari’s, according to media reports I’ve read. He called Ngige a Yoruba man in 2013, implying that it’s undesirable to be Yoruba. In 2013, when Idemili women protested after being disenfranchised, Obi said the women were from Osun State in order to delegitimize them.

Obi’s ethnic politics as a governor was so acute that Okey Ndibe called him out on it in several columns, saying in one column that “such appeals to base, ethnic sentiments would return to haunt him if he ever seeks to be a political player at the national level.”

On the issues that really matter, Obi is no different from any politician. It’s people on social media who created this image of Obi as some transformational person when he is just a business-as-usual politician like everybody else.

This is a man whose aide was caught with N250 million cash in 2009 in his lodge when he was a governor. A former banker and a governor holding that much cash is suspicious. His record in human rights isn’t any different from other governors. The Daily Champion of June 20, 2006 reported him as ordering the police to “shoot on sight hoodlums caught perpetrating violence in the city.” What happened to fair trial?

And he lies a lot—like other politicians. He claims he never borrowed as a governor and that he left a surplus when he left office as a governor. Records at the Debt Management Office don’t support this. Anambra’s External Debt was $15 million by December 2007. At the time Obi left office in June 2014, the state’s external debt climbed up to an astronomical $41 million. That’s a 173 percent jump!

And, like other politicians, he is corrupt, too. He invested Anambra state’s money in his family business.

Yet when you point out that he is just as human and as flawed as most politicians, his supporters threaten people with death and coarse invective, like Buharists did—and still do. Critical democratic citizenship isn’t allowed where he is involved.

So, “Obi-dients” are the new Buharists. Better get ready for their rank stupidity and pigheadedness should Peter Obi become president. They’re perpetually angry. They’re narrowminded, verbally primitive, ignorant, tunnel-visioned automatons who think their illiterate trolling can stop people from expressing views that are contrary to theirs.

They constitute a risible horde of unthinking troll brigade on the Internet and are incapable of the most basic level of cognitive complexity. If you’re not one of them, you are against them. If you don’t sacrifice your critical faculty on the altar of Peter Obi political idolatry, you’re against their idol.

If you write any favorable article about Obi, you’re an unflinching patriot, but if you do the same for Obi’s opponents, you’re a paid supporter of their idol’s opponents. They live in a world of Manichean binaries. Nuance is a strange concept to them.

If Satan were to magically emerge today and endorse Obi, they’ll sanctify Satan as Angel Gabriel and sing his praises. They’re that stupid.

They deserve their name. Obedience, after which “Obidience” is modeled, means a dutiful surrender of one’s critical senses to someone in authority, and that’s what Obidients do every waking moment of their miserable lives since they caught the bug of Obimania.

Why always Obi? Why not Tinubu? Why not Atiku?

This present administration is Tinubu's idea. Upon all their failure to fulfill their promises to Nigeria, has Tinubu apologized? If eventually Tinubu becomes the president of Nigeria and fails to fulfill his promises, can he apologize? How can Nigeria survive this kind of administration for 16 years?

Which means that Tinubu has already failed before the election proper.

Own goal scored.

Nonsense talk.

Man of the people.

Correct talk.

I hope the south will benefit from this?

This sowore does not have any manifesto. He is just following Peter Obi all over the place as if the incoming president is his manifesto. Yes Mr. Peter Obi built Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital when he was the Governor of Anambra state. His time as the Governor was like liking a honey. We enjoyed it. Nigeria will be great with people like Peter Obi as president.

The next president.

Nnamdi KANU must be free.

Tinubu must you talk?

Mr. Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria.

El-rufai does not have the balls to arrest Obi under this circumstances.

Mr. Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria.

Behold the next president. Mr. Peter Obi.

OnionBandit:
Good one

The hate-filled hypocrites from the other side will not be happy about this news. They were quick to make it trend when the fight started, tweeting all sort of rubbish all over Twitter. Anything that will bring the downfall of a successful northerner gives them orgasm...

Just imagine for a second that Dangote was their brother, you would have read a lot of unpleasant comments about Kogi people, while throwing their full weight behind him. You say the northerners are bigots, but as the days go by, it is becoming increasingly clear who the real bigots are. The northerners never supported their own, Dangote blindly throughout the misunderstanding with the good people of Kogi. They kept their calm!

I think I understand the cause of the envy.. Despite so much chest-beating about how "industrious" they are, none of their wrapper tying ancestors ever made the list of world richest, even though they deal in astonishing range of merchandise.

Dangote was wise never to have built that gigantic obajana in any of their state. By now, his company would have become history.

God bless every well meaning Nigerian

Monopoly business is not the best for Nigerian. Liberalise the economy and see that Dangote is learner.

GreatMerit:
Must Shehu Sani react to everything?

Was he wrong?

Quota system AGF. How can Nigeria move forward with people like this in the helm of affairs? MNK may be right after all.

Mr. Peter Obi had ruled Anambra state and moved on, but Tinubu has refused to let go of Lagos state, why?

festacman:
If Major General John Enenche (rtd) is victimized for doing his professional job based on information given to him, why didn't Anambra State youths reject Peter Obi's candidature because during his tenure as Governor, multitude of bodies were found floating on a river with fingers pointing in the direction of state government.

By the way, some persons may have needlessly and sadly lost their precious lives as a result of Lekki incident on that fateful night. However, there is no clear evidence that MASSACRE took place.

If massacre happened, the world would have come after Pres. Buhari big time.

Are you from Anambra state? Why would you talk what you do not know? Stop supporting evil. Mr. Peter Obi did very well as Anambra state governor. What actually was a particular achievement of Tinubu in Lagos as former governor of the state than cornering all the juicy positions to his family and friends? I am baffled when I see supposed responsible people deceiving other Nigerians on achievement of some presidential candidates based on sentiments. To measure achievements in office as former governors, Mr. Peter Obi performed better than Tinubu. Now they are out of office Tinubu still has a conduit pipe he connected from Lagos State treasury to his family and friends for syphoning Lagos state money. Otherwise justify the legitimate businesses Tinubu is doing that warrant him to bring two bullion vans to his house on the eve of an election. Sentiments apart Tinubu cannot win any election in Nigeria based on his anticidents. Even APC should be going about apologizing to Nigerians for wasting their 8 years. If not for God mercies many Nigerians will not be alive due to large scale of killings going on Nigeria now APC is ruling and many will still be killed before APC will hand over power to Mr. Peter Obi, who will stop the killings. Upon all these Tinubu has never come out openly to condemn these atrocities of APC. Yet people like you who are supposed to guide people to make right decision of moving Nigeria forward are sentimentally overwhelmed. Retrace your steps for the betterment of your children and Nigerian generations to come. Let us get it right this time. Let us vote in people we can hold responsible when they do wrong things. Now APC is doing the wrong things yet people like you are keeping quiet. How can you talk against them when this wrong doings continue beyond 2023? From every indication they have perfected the act of silencing the masses when they do wrong things, just like Tinubu is doing in Lagos state now and people like you are blind to it . Retrace your step for a better Nigeria. God bless you as you do this, my brother.

Obj God will continue to bless you. Mr. Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria.