duro4chang: I am okay. I thinj you should check youself. Inec and co rejected lies and anything that can robe them. Will you allow your opponent to robe you in court?
Apus: Seems this would be the highest monthly revenue ever in the history of Nigeria. Part of the gains of removing subsidy. Only if all tiers of government will be accountable and prudent enough in using this money to uplift the masses from their sufferings. Alas, the bigger the revenue, the higher the level of misappropriation.
deji17: That is why the Obid.ense is cancerous. The people who voted for the party that came first, totalling over 8 million, are they not Nigerians? The party that came third, instead of showing how they came first, went to the tribunal to claim none drug case, some dual citizenship stuff and all kind of frivolous cases. This does not make sense to rational human beings. Yet, you claim you won. Is this not madness?
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, will turn 62 on Wednesday.
The former Anambra State Governor has said he does not intend to celebrate his birthday, but this has not quietened the buzz around him.
Some social media users have dug up a newspaper publication from 2013 claiming Obi was 50 at the time, thus creating the impression that he earlier falsified his age or is doing so now.
The news report was shared on Tuesday by Uche Rochas, a Twitter user, and placed side by side with a screenshot of Obi’s tweet stating he had no intention of celebrating his birthday. Rochas’ tweet ends with “Which one should we believe?”
VERIFICATION: According to Obi’s Wikipedia page, he was born on July 19, 1961, and became governor in 2003 at the age of 42. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi#:~:text=On%2017%20March%202014%20Peter,Peoples%20Democratic%20Party%20in%202014.
This would mean that in 2013 he should have been 52, not 50 as the newspaper article claimed, and 62 in 2023 as Obi now says.
FIJ made further checks and found a 2011 article published by All Africa.
The article published on July 20 with the headline ‘Why I’ll Not Celebrate My 50th Birthday — Obi’ credited Obi with speaking with newsmen a day earlier, and saying his birthday did not come up during a meeting with his commissioners.
This story came two years before The Nation’s, and there are no records to show Obi falsified his age or recorded two different birth dates.
FIJ also found a news article by CKN News in 2013 correctly reporting Obi’s age as 52 at the time.
CONCLUSION: The article by The Nation newspaper in 2013 erroneously reported Obi’s birthday as his 50th.
VERDICT: The claim that Obi was 50 in 2013 is false.
IconicR: Please I need someone to clear me on what Obi would have done differently concerning the situation of the country within this short period. A country that has long sunked since the time of Jonathan's administration, the last good/fair government we had was Yaradua and Obasanjo's administration. Jonathan is the architect of the present country we have, Buhari couldn't do any better and Tinubu is just trying to pull us out by the drastic decisions he's taking which has it's negative impact which would only be for a very short time before we start seeing the positive effects of his decisions. Nigerians please be patient, times are really hard but we have to endure so we can achieve permanent and meaningful results. May God ease our affairs and bless each and every one of you. Thank you all, iconicR cares.
Obi said he would put measures in place before removing subsidy,the drug baron rushed to remove it first
LegendHero: I trust Podiumreporters, but I’m waiting on NTA to confirm this news too and it’s gonna be great.
Good that they listen to voice of reasoning. Spending that money on actual commodities to cushion the effect will be a better alternative.
Minimum wage increase still on track. Just hope they speed it up.
To people talking about the increase in petrol price, it hurts truly but that is the meaning of “Subsidy is Gone”. The market force control the price now.
We all condemned previous government for not removing subsidy and now that it is removed, we must face the harsh reality of the decision. FG should now spend that saved money on the Nigerian people so they can at least lift the burden small.
IconicR: They should be ignored. They did more than this and he still won the presidential election. The whole world may condemn someone but the important thing is does God condemn such person? May God ease our affairs and help Mr president to solve the problems of the country
garfield1: Assuming the court orders that 25% in fct is mandatory and that there should be a runoff,it will be between tinubu and the person who came second which is atiku.obi will lose out,he will not partake.so why are obidients painstakingly, mischievously and persistently insisting that 25% is fct is a must? Or is it that they prefer atiku to be president than Tinubu?