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akelicious:
The Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has revealed that contrary to the sanctimonious posturing of his predecessor, former governor Peter Obi,

the state was saddled with a huge domestic debt of N127bn when Obi left office in March 2014.

Speaking in the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia on Tuesday, Governor Obiano explained that his silence over the monstrous debt his predecessor sought to tie his hands with had been mainly because he did not want to allow his regime to be distracted at inception so that he would concentrate on the delivering his promise of good governance to Ndi Anambra.
According to him, the N127bn debt came mostly from the 101 road contracts that the former governor hurriedly awarded at the dying minutes of his regime without making any provision whatsoever for them in order to wrong-foot his administration from the very first day.
Governor Obiano further listed other disingenuous designs by his successor to make sure that his regime never really took off as the last minute employment of 6000 workers without provision for their welfare as well as the various hotels and independent power projects which he had no plans to complete.
He however revealed that he has quietly completed 51 out of the 101 roads that Obi saddled him with and assured Ndi Anambra that the remaining 50 would soon be completed too.
Governor Obiano’s revelation came on the heels of the growing inconsistencies in the figures being thrown up by former governor Obi which have left many discerning observers wondering just how much the former governor actually left behind.
They point at Obi’s sudden volte-face from his earlier declaration that he handed N75bn cash to his successor to declare at the flag off of the PDP campaign in Onitsha yesterday that the actual amount he left when he handed over was N48,626bn.
While delivering an address that has been mostly castigated by political analysts as suicidal, former governor Obi was caught on camera saying “when I was leaving this place, we left in savings N26bn. We set aside for important projects, N23,629bn. If you put the two together, it will come to N48, 626bn.”
The former governor’s contradictory accounts of the exact amount he bequeathed his successor leaves huge gaps in the emerging narrative of dubious accountability and an even more doubtful integrity.
This becomes more so in the light of the revelation that in former governor Obi’s so called N75bn handover are embedded all manner of moribund and toxic assets which the former governor cleverly reported as profitable investments in the handover note.
For instance, Obi’s reportage of the 16.5% equity stake in Emenite, a fibre cement roof and ceiling manufacturing company set up by the Premier of the old Eastern Region, Dr M.I. Okpara which was shared between the five states that made up the old Eastern Region as part of the trumpeted investments he had handed over to Obiano is nothing but pure fraud.
Observers also complained that it speaks volumes about Obi’s vaunted integrity to realize that the former governor also reported that he had invested the sum of N3.5bn in Interfact Beverages Limited when in reality what he invested was N1.4bn only. This followed Governor Obiano’s announcement that his administration would soon revise the discrepancy to reflect the actual equity stake of the state in the company.
Other dead bodies buried in Obi’s handover note include the N9bn involuntary investment in the Nigerian Independent Power Project, conceived in 2004 by the Obasanjo regime which the Federation Account was charged to fund on behalf of the 36 states of the federation. One wonders how this investment could have found its way into Obi’s phantom savings that he handed over to Obiano in cash.
Other components of Obi’s “famous” N75bn cash handover include the N4bn estimated value of the land resources of Anambra State on which the oil installations of Orient Petroleum Resources stands which Mr Obi “cleverly” converted into the state’s

http://www.akelicious.com/2017/10/breakingpeter-obi-left-me-with-n127bn.html?m=1

gidgiddy:
Gowon keeps making all these statements about how the civil war was a difficult time for him, how he was fighting for the unity of Nigeria, and that the war was not about hatred for anyone

Who does this man think he is deceiving in this social media age? The man is in his 90's but still thinks we are back in the stone age when information was from propaganda? Lying through his teeth.

Gowon should tell Nigerians the truth, not continue with the same lie on which he justified killing millions of people for a non-existent unity

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he did nothing as thousands of Easterners were being killed in pogrom, all over Nigeria, particularly in the North.

Was it because Northerners were the ones doing the killing?

Gowon should tell Nigerians why he broke the agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Aburi, Ghana. An agreement that was supposed to restructure Nigeria, keep the country one and prevent war. Thereby causing war.

Is it because the agreement prevented Gowon and his fellow Northerners from getting political control of Nigeria?

Gowon should tell Nigerians that he was the one who declared war after Ojukwu declared Biafra, and that he waged this war not primarily because of the unity of Nigeria.

But because of oil. Had the oil been in the North, it would have been Gowon who would have declared Arewa Republic long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. The only difference is there would have been no war as many would have been happy to see them go with their oil.


Gowon should stop these lies he keeps spewing about the war he caused. The war was not about Nigeria's unity, it was about the political and economic control of Nigeria by the North

mrvitalis:
Show where I said he failed as a governor and get 200k

mrvitalis:
I have only one watch for the past 17 years

Now u judge

Men like this should never be allowed to hold power

mrvitalis:
Obi has always said he built houses when he was in school

The present sultan was his tenant

He has always maintain he has one just one personal house in Nigeria and that's his official house in Onitsha

mrvitalis:
Poor man he said personal house... Obi has over 300 shops in trade fair alone

Smh

mrvitalis:
Which lie obi has multiple houses in the UK not even one... But in Nigeria he has house only I Onitsha and his village

And so what if obi has multiple houses

Melezenawii:
Obidents Area Fada with APC Governor



https://x.com/seyilaw1/status/1930898239554761054?t=EVJk4NUIQiThyYb57cDgrQ&s=19[/quote]Just imagine the excitement written all over the face of this old thug to be associated with an APC governor.
Hope Uzodinma is just looking at him with contempt and scorn.
Shameful!!!

DomPerignon:
There have been many prominent and vocal obidient members of the IBO stock who have since dumped the party and moved else where. All of them decried Obi's ineffectual and lack of leadership skills as to why they dumped the LP and its rabid online obidient movement.

At no time has the mob gone after these ibo defectors but when a Yoruba or non ibo member of the obidient camp decides on his own to dump the party and movement like AkinTollgate did citing the toxicity and alienating provocative and unguided utterances of a prominent section of the obidient camp all hell was let loose on him.

Note that Akin neve condemned Obi's ineffectual and dearth of leadership skills that was used by ibo defectors. Akin never insulted their messiah but rather called the movement out for its constant attacks on other ethnicities but he is being dragged, quatered and burnt on the stake by ibo obidients

The only thing I can get from all this is that as a non IBO , you are only tolerated as long as you continue foolishly supporting their tribal candidate and opposing every other political figure in the land most especially those from within your own ethnicity.

The Obidient movement as I always maintained was formed by the exorcised demons of IPOB who latched onto the Obi presidential campaign following demoralization over their Biafra agitation due to their leader being incarcerated.

They never liked you and once you dump their toxic movement you will be treated as an apostate and all hell let loose.

This is what communists refer to as "useful idiots" and it simply translates to those so easily swayed by communist propaganda that they will do every dirty works to ensure the communist revolution succeeds. But after the succesful revolution, the useful idiots are the first to be rounded up and shot because the communists know that when their true agenda begins to unravel which is always to enthrone a racial or ethnic hegemony, the useful idiots will be the ones to rebel against it.

Its from there that we get to see how every communist revolution must have a purge and that purge isn't limited to those the communists had already penciled down for elimination but those within the revolution who were so easily swayed by some nonesene equality bullshit .

gidgiddy:
Yeah, I know that unity begging, commenting Biafran threads, fighting for a useless one Nigeria that has never worked must frustrating

gidgiddy:
You unity beggars can try all you want but the ultimate destination of the Igbo nation is independence from Nigeria

gidgiddy:
This is the thread a group of unity beggars have set up just to find every reason why Igbos should remain with them in their useless 'one Nigeria' that has never worked since 1960

The funny thing is that they dig up these disjointed history that should tell even a blind man that Nigeria should have been dissolved a long time ago, and everyone go their way. But they still want 'one Nigeria' that has only brought death, destruction and suffering to this day, because they are profiting from the mess in Nigeria

Too many jobless people out there

DomPerignon:
Yeteraday , they were marking Biafra day but when you bring out events that led to that rogue nation being declared they will call you a bigot and one looking to bring back old wounds despite them living in the past of those dark years.

Their hypocrisy stinks.

Justiceleague1:
You need God's mercy, seriously.

That which you all seek,you all shall find,you and your family only.

DomPerignon:
According to Nigeria’s former President Alhaji Shehu Shagari in his famous book Beckoned to serve, said when the Head of Government Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was abducted and later killed,the Nigerian constitution provides that the Deputy Prime Minister,who was then Alhaji Zanna Bukar Diprachima was supposed to takeover as the New leader of Nigeria.

But when Shagari and Co learnt that the First indigenous General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Armed Forces ,Major General Aguiyi Ironsi has escaped and was able to hijack the coup,Shagari in company of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s aides went to him to discuss the transfer of power to the Deputy Prime Minister Alhaji Zanna Bukar Diprachima.

As they enter where Ironsi is hiding , probably Nigeria’s Police Headquarters ,they met Nigeria’s Senate President Dr Nwafor Orizu with General JTU Aguiyi Ironsi.

According to the rules, Dr Nwafor Orizu was empowered by Nigerian laws to invite the Deputy Prime Minister to form and Head the new Government.

Murtala Coup: 45 years after(Nigeria’s first bloodless)

But surprisingly ,the senate President Dr Nwafor Orizu told Alhaji Shehu Shagari and some survivors of the coup that they should go back home and when any issue came up with regards to the formation of New Government they will ask them to come back.

Former President Shehu Shagari and the rest went out,after a while they heard Dr Nwafor Orizu over Radio Nigeria making some remarks about the mutiny where he finally invited the General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Armed Forces ,Major General Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi Ironsi to make some remarks ,in which he later announced himself as the New Head of State of Nigeria.

Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Attorney General and Justic Minister confirned Shagari's narratives of events in his own book as well. Akinjide narrated that The G.O.C , General Aguiyi Ironsi, said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers.

According to Akinjide: “And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military. We did not hand- over. Ironsi told us that ‘you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force’. These were his words. Is that voluntary handover?

So we did not handover. We wanted the Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers.


The Acting President, Nwafor Orizu, “who did not co-operate with us cooperated with the GOC. Dr Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast, handing over the government of the country to the army. I hereby state categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not handover voluntarily. It was a coup.”

Below is from the speech delivered Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, at the public presentation of the first edition of the book “Fellow Countrymen – the story of Coup D’etats in Nigeria,” by Richard Akinnola on June 12, 2000):

[i]Talking of the first coup, when Balewa got missing, we knew Okotie-Eboh had been killed, we knew Samuel Akintola had been killed. We the members of the Balewa cabinet started meeting. But how can we have a cabinet meeting without the Prime Minister acting or the Prime Minister presiding. So, unanimously, we nominated acting Prime Minister amongst us and we continued holding our meetings.


Then we got a message that we should all assemble at the Cabinet office. All the Ministers were requested by the G.O.C. of the Nigerian Army, General Aguiyi Ironsi to assemble. What was amazing at that time was that Ironsi was going all over Lagos unarmed.

We assembled there, having nominated Zana Diphcharima as our acting prime minister in the absence of the Prime Minister, whose where about we didn’t know. We approached the acting President, Nwafor Orizu to swear him in because he could not legitimately act as the Prime Minister except he was sworn in. Nwafor Orizu refused. He said he needed to contact Zik who was then in West Indies.


Under the Law, that is, the interpretation Act, as acting President, Nwafor Orizu had all the powers of the President.

The G.O.C said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers. And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military. We did not hand- over. Ironsi told us that “you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force”. These were his words. Is that voluntary handover? So we did not handover. We wanted the Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers.


The acting President, Nwafor Orizu, who did not co-operate with us cooperated with the GOC. Dr Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast, handing over the government of the country to the army. I hereby state categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not handover voluntarily. It was a coup.[/I]


From both Shehu Shagari and Chief Akinjide's account we can easily conclude that no effort was made to locate the then missing PM and that both Ironsi and Orizu had first hand knowledge that the PM was dead.

Orizu who was acting as President of Parliament in Zik's absence and who was of the NCNC - a junior party in the coalition government led by the NPC bluntly refused to accede to the demands by NPC MPs to swear in the deputy PM but instead without any consultation and consensus with their senior partners in the NPC went on air to introduce Ironsi as the new defacto HoS.

Orizu not only gave full tacit support to Ironsi seizing power but went as far as bringing an abrupt end to our democracy.

As I have said here severally, the Jan 15 coup was an Ibo coup orchestrated by Ibo politicians led by Zik for the sole purpose to halt the inevitable secccesion of the ethnic minorities in the old Eastern region.


As for Zik, when he was interviewed in far away Haiti by the BBC on what his reaction to a military take over , Zik was in full support.

Zik , in that interview , stated with full confidence that in the absence of the PM the military should take over. Zik spoke like somome who knew already that the PM was dead . At that time of Zik granting that interview and Ironsi declaring himself HoS after Orizu "handed over " to him, the PM was presumed missing.

Eagleways:
if my memory serves me right, Tinubu and others flee the country during NADECO days and they were not cowards, abi?

People like you will never see good things in life because of wickedness, bigotry and hypocrisy

Bigcowhorn:
Fufu brain

Newsgeek24:
https://news360ng.com/alleged-terrorism-simon-ekpa-appears-in-finnish-court-as-prosecutors-seek-six-year-sentence-video/

gidgiddy:
Of course, unity beggars want everything that will protect their useless 'one Nigeria'

gidgiddy:
Your only future is to be a unity begger, forever crying on every Biafran related thread so as to protect your useless 'one Nigeria'

chiagozien:
IPOB Switzerland 🇨🇭 today 30.05.2025 gathered at the United Nations, Geneva @UNGeneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭 to commemorate the declaration of the sovereign state of Biafra by our eternal leader Dim Chikwuemeka Ojukwu - we remember him.

Our fallen heroes and heroines are also remembers, respected, for protecting, with their blood 🩸, what survived the genocide against Biafra and continued the struggle.

We also demand the unjust detention and trial our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu!

All hail Biafra.
#biafraheroesday2025
#biafraheroandheroineday
#Biafra