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President Buhari stated this on Thursday, when he held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Great Britain on the margins of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda. The President at the meeting reiterated his resolve to respect the maximum term limit in the Nigerian Constitution.

The PM, obviously not quite familiar with the maximum two terms limit, had asked if President Buhari would run for office again. To which the latter responded: “Another term for me? No! The first person who tried it didn’t end very well.” (General laughter).

....On the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, not being allowed to see his lawyers privately, the President dispelled such insinuation, saying the detained separatist was being given every opportunity under the law “to justify all the uncomplimentary things he had been saying against Nigeria in Britain.” Said President Buhari: “He felt very safe in Britain, and said awful things against Nigeria. We eventually got him when he stepped out of the United Kingdom, and we sent him to court. Let him defend all that he has said there. His lawyers have access to him. Remember he jumped bail before, how are we sure he won’t do it again, if he’s admitted to bail?”



......On the keenness expressed by the PM to help Nigeria in the area of security, the President said helping to stabilize Libya could be an initial good step, as the fall of Muammar Gadaffi after 42 years in power unleashed his armed guards on countries in the Sahel, “and they are causing havoc everywhere, as the only thing they know how to do is to shoot guns.” On Boko Haram insurgency, President Buhari said there was serious effort to educate the people on the fact that only an unserious person could kill innocent people, “and say Allah Akbar (God is Great). God is justice. “You can’t take innocent souls, and ascribe it to God. And the education process is working, the people now understand Boko Haram as anti-God, and not about religion.” PM Johnson said he was delighted about the good news on trade between the two countries, adding that the UK was further reducing tariffs on some goods going to Nigeria. He described the relationship between the countries as “very strong attachment,” adding: “I just want to be sure that we are doing enough. It’s a massive partnership for us, and we need to capitalize on it.”

•I don’t know Peter Obi
.At least, four major presidential candidates have emerged. Who do you think can fix this country?
.We still have not got the man who we think will fix Nigeria. What we have on the ground is not good enough. Even Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP?

How can you look at Tinubu and Atiku, and say they are the ones who will fix this country? They have been on the ground for the last 25, 30 years and so on. What have they done? What are we looking for? I was the one who encouraged a technocrat to join the consensus. You probably saw Dr Mohammed Hayatu Deen on the group of people going around looking for a consensus arrangement in the PDP. I was one of those who encouraged him. We haven’t got the materials on the ground, unfortunately. Given what we have who would you ask Nigerians to vote for?

Peter Obi, unfortunately, I don’t know him that much. He is a young man. He was a governor of Anambra State and he is a businessman now but this is not the way to approach it. If we were really serious about the problem facing this country, the approach should not have been an issue of where are we going to put a president or who gets what, which section of the country gets what and so on. The elders are at fault too because I have been talking to my peers, my colleagues. They know my feelings on some of these things that we haven’t done, what we are supposed to do. No matter how painful, the truth must always come out from elders. But the elders have relaxed themselves in the crowd of irresponsible political classes and they are just shouting like all the politicians are shouting during campaigns and so on. So, there is a difference between the elders now and the politicians on ground as far as I am concerned. But what I thought the elders should do is to agree that this country needs real fixing and therefore, we should sit down and seriously look at all the issues and objectively, honestly, and truthfully agree that these are the issues facing Nigeria; not the issues facing North-East, North- West, North-Central, South-East, South- West or South-South. What are the issues facing Nigeria? These are the responsibilities that elders should sit down and and agree that these are the problems and what are we going to do to solve them from the various fronts, political and so on. So, by the time we agree to approach it this way, we won’t be talking of where the presidency should go or who will be the president. We will be talking about who is qualified to take it. There are so many people who will qualify but we have to take a decision as to why this one should do it at this particular point in time. But unfortunately, we got lost in emotions, tribalism, religious sentiments and so on and that is why we are where we are now and I can’t see how we are going to get out of this. Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is in the race too… He is a good young man. He started his politics with us and he is quite smart. No doubt about it. Of course, he had some of these debts that he acquired or he must have picked in other political formations and so on but clearly he is one of the bright ones around. No doubt about that. Would you advocate Obi-Kwankwaso ticket? No. I am not going to advocate anything from a distance. Each time, before I make a pronouncement as to whether it is A, B, C or D I get all my information right. So far, I don’t have that kind of information that will make it possible for me to say this is a good pair to deal with the Nigerian crises because Nigeria is in crises. This is something that we have to accept first: The Nigeria we have and want to keep because I assume that we want to keep Nigeria. We must sit down and say what’s wrong and this is the way to go about it. But the way we have gone about it with the kind of riff-raff politics is wrong. How you can say 750 people, one per local government will decide who will be the president of Nigeria? How? How can you say this is a democracy that is participatory? That is the delegate system? This is something that we have tried to avoid. The delegate system produces nothing but godfatherism, irresponsible mentorship and so on and so forth. We did not have participatory democracy. We have tried to say the INEC or National Assembly should introduce option A4 like we had in my days when I contested in the SDP and won in Kaduna. No matter how rich you are, you can’t go out and get N100 million, N20 million or N30 million. You can see the corruption. How can you pick a form for N100 million? For what, is it not outrageous selling nomination forms for N100 million? I mean this is clear sign of irresponsible corruption because somebody whose total legitimate salary in four years, assuming he is president, will be, I think, N34 million. Why should you pick a form for N100 million and you are not even sure you are going to win the election? So, these are signs that the entire political system is corrupt and unless we go back to the drawing board and do the correct things that will make Nigerians participate in the process, we cannot ensure emergence of good candidates from the grassroots. How can you say it is only one person from my local government who can represent me to elect the president? How? What do you think made seven aspirants to step down for Tinubu on the day of APC presidential primaries? It is all corruption. The system is corrupt. That exercise is a reflection of the enormous corruption that is in our system. Corruption is not necessarily exchange of naira and kobo or dollar. Corruption means you are not telling the truth in your mind. You are not really judging things fairly and objectively and so on. If you are looking for a good man, how could you compare X and Y and you know that there is a difference between X and Y but you went to the wrong place? So, it is all part of corruption in the system and until we go back to the drawing board, I cannot see how we are going to get out of this mess. Who do you think the North will queue behind- Atiku, Tinubu, Kwankwaso or Peter Obi? Will there be block votes from the North? No, I wouldn’t know because I am not in the process. Block votes for what, and for who? If I had a position in terms of the quality of the party or candidate, I would have thrown my opinion in terms of yes we should vote this way or vote another way, then the issue of block voting or whatever voting perhaps will come to my mind. But as I told you I won’t throw my weight anywhere. So you are not supporting anybody? I am not supporting anybody out of what is on ground. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been on strike for several months now. You were a VC of ABU at a time. How would you respond to this? I was at one time the secretary of Nigeria Teachers Union. It wasn’t ASUU at the time but I was in the union activities years ago and I was also involved with ASUU when I was VC of ABU and when I was the chairman of the university council. It is very sad that the universities are shutdown for a long time. And the fault is that of the government. Nobody says it is this government. This agreement was not signed by this government. It was signed by the previous government and the mistake was done by those who signed those agreements. As a former VC, and former teacher, I couldn’t have appended my signature on the agreement the way it was. It is very sad that the universities are closed but the fault should be shared between the government and university lecturers. Let’s look at the economy. One dollar is exchanging for about N600 at the moment. How do we get out of this? Let me tell you. It is a true story in which I was involved. In 1985/86, there was a debate in Nigeria about IMF loan and our colleagues in the universities; I remember in particular my friend, Bala Usman and others, argued against Nigeria taking IMF loan with the conditionalities that were attached. The first demand from those conditions was that Nigeria should devalue its currency. And that particular time, One naira was equivalent to one dollar 40 cents, one naira, 20 kobo was equivalent to one pound sterling. Now when this devaluation started, it started at N5 to $1. I called a dinner in the VC’s lodge and the main people I called were from the social sciences – economists, sociologists, etc. After the dinner, I jokingly said to them: ‘This food is not free, I wanted to ask you a question and that is why I set up this dinner. What is the meaning of this devaluation and what is the meaning of this structural adjustment programme? As a VC, I am expecting some answers from you. I am an agronomist. I am a farmer and that is why I called you economists to come and explain to me what is all this One professor of economics, a friend of mine, he is still alive, said, ‘professor, this process that has started, I will not tell you where it will end. I will only be able to tell you the beginning of almost total destruction of the Nigerian economic system starting with its currency.’ You remember I said one naira equalled to one dollar and 40 cents, at that particular time. Today, as we speak, I understand now that one dollar is about N600. Just try and imagine this in your mind. And you don’t produce anything in Nigeria to sell, except your crude oil, much of it which is stolen. You are not selling anything. You are not creating things for which you receive payment from outside but you buy virtually everything. Everything you see shining on the road today, it is imported. So you have to have all the naira that will translate into the dollar and then you go and buy whatever it is that you are buying. So, with this in your mind, if you are going to do the calculation correctly, you can almost reach the conclusion that your economy is down and only God knows when it will ever rise again. Who will you vote, who are you voting for?

Iamgrey5:
Bro, as a former ipob apologist that hates anything that is not igbo dominated until I stubbled on Obi presidency after Tinubu won Apc primary election, I can categorically tell you all those I love to call Afonja, skull miners, Fulaniherdsmen are also secretly voting for my hype job saint Peter Obi the god amongst we former ipob apologist.

He is our next president after Kanu hmm I mean Buhari.

bro are you okay

frejatoye117:
You guys are joking with the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Asiwaju Bola Ahmed TINUBU

Are you okay

trailer no cost nah

Arysexy:
What do you want him to change?the community was relocated but they keep returning to their ancestral land during dry season.

This happens in most riverine communities like Epe, Badagry, lokoja etc during rainy season.

Be an OBIDIENT CITIZEN

THE presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, returned to Lagos last Sunday
after emerging his party’s flagbearer in
the presidential primaries that took place
nearly a fortnight ago at the Eagles
Square, Abuja.
The euphoria of his supporters was
truncated at the Adeniji-Adele area of
Isale Eko as Tinubu, a former governor of
the state, departed the palace of the Oba
of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu. Hoodlums and
“area boys”, armed with stones, machetes
and other dangerous weapons, attacked
his convoy, shattering the windows of the
press corps bus and injuring a number of
journalists covering the event.


----This unfortunate act brought back the
memories of the attack on the Oba’s
palace during the mayhem that followed
the #EndSARS riots in October 2020.
Hoodlums had also invaded the royal
palace, desecrated it and carted away
some of the royal trappings and
paraphernalia of the paramount ruler.
Just over a week ago, violent gangs were
also mobilised to disrupt and scare away
intending voters who gathered to register
for their Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs,
in the Alaba International Market area.
Non-indigenes were asked to go to their
states and register. This is contrary to the
Constitution and the laws which empower
all Nigerian citizens with the freedom to
vote and be voted for in any part of the
country they reside.

---The threats of violence by armed gangs
have been the strategy used to prevent
Nigerians from exercising their franchise
on the basis of their non-indigeneship.
This was very rampant during the 2019
presidential election in Lagos.
As we start the journey into the
campaigns and other activities towards
electing new leaders at all levels in 2023,
we call on all stakeholders to embrace
peace and amity, respect the rights of
others and obey all laws guiding the
process. This is the only way we can
succeed in our search for the leadership
which can rescue Nigeria from its current
quagmire.


---Those who think they can gain some
political advantages by deploying violence
should know that no one has the
monopoly of it. It is easy to start an
attack, but no one can predict its
outcome.
Nigeria is already bedevilled by different
shades of terrorism as posed by Boko
Haram, Islamic State in West Africa
Province, ISWAP, Ansaru and armed
herdsmen attacking churches, killing
worshippers and carting away helpless
citizens into the wilderness for ransom.
Adding political violence to it could doom
the country and its 2023 agenda.


----Iamwilliamsfx

Golan007:
What did he change?

He changed the governmental structure

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Arysexy:
This was Peter Obi visit to Ogbaru several years ago. The community is by the bank of River Niger, known for yam farming. Unfortunately their community is always flooded at the peak of rainfall btwn June to July.

OBI FOREVER

3ple9iner:
When you tell people not to throw things in drainage systems you would be abused. I wonder what state of mine the shop owners would be in now.

Youre the only reasonable person to.comment on this Topic

newdawnlive:
what's this mumu saying

Got no time for insults

Arysexy:
Shut up
Ogbaru is a riverine community prone to flooding every rainy season

THANK YOU

Islandlady:
You mean Obi Pandora Anambra or another one

Why won't flood wash away the whole state wen refuse and dirt have blocked the whole canal

Flood is a disaster, no one knows when its about to happen

newdawnlive:
upon $10,000 investment that now worth $100,000,000, is this what flat heads want to turn Nigeria to

take your speech easy

[quote author=izuch post=114154786][/quote]Okay

mascot87:
Peter Obi should be ashamed of himself. See person wey wan become president. Water wan wash him state enter Atlantic ocean

How could you say such a thing, A man God sent to save dieing nigeria, youre accusing him

Golan007:
Na film trick.

lol

izuch:
Suggestion? Nada bro

What do you mean

Totilopussylick:
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Another propaganda just to discredit obi.

Even Lagos flood despite all the praises on Tinubu, flood still send people packing out of their homes .

Dont mind them
be Obidient forever

Smithkafors:
Ok

Sad day indeed

NoQualmz:
Ogbaru is a flood prone area. So unfortunate the market is situated in and around there

So sad day indeed

izuch:
Lemme book in case.....

Whats your suggestion

Totilopussylick:
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Whatsup Whats your suggestion

Some traders at the Relief Market in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra are counting their losses as flood occasioned by heavy rainfall, washed away shops, electric poles and cables in the market. The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the market, Mr David Obidike, disclosed this during a tour of the affected areas, while taking members of his executive and newsmen round the portions on Saturday.
-“On one of the nights few days ago, the Chief Security Officer of the market called me and told me that devastating flood from Awada Area, has carried the market as the flood entered under the Sakamori (drainage) system in the market and uprooted it, thereby wrecking havoc in the market. “The damage was much, about 10 shops were washed away with the wares in them, the electric armoured cables, big water borne pipe and telephone cables buried underground were all exhumed and damaged by the flood.
-“As I talk now we have not gotten power supply for a month now since the rainy season started, and you can’t make a call, the market is in blackout and traders are using electricity generators. “Our market is now in danger because it is situated in the notorious Upper Iweka axis, these hoodlums can easily come into the market through the damaged portions caused by the erosion menace,” he said.
-He said the only saving grace of the traders from theft has been that it had a team of dedicated security men. He pleaded with Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra, and other relevant authorities for assistance as the extent of damage done was beyond their financial capability.

-Iamwilliamsfx

GardenOfGod:
Now you are talking

Oga be.obidient

Totilopussylick:
We the obidient members says no to PDP.

And APC.

They are the reason for insecurities going on in the whole country .

THANK YOU

OBI FOREVER

Quest7777:

BE An ObIdient citizen

Frigga13:
Guess Na obi dey make dem register

just be an obidient citizen