₦airaland Forum

MartinCorridon:
The keys to victory

1. Naturally intelligent, master strategist and tactician, political savvy.

2. Mentorship under MKO Abiola.

3. Political philanthropy, ability to work with even his perceived enemies for a common cause e.g. Saraki and Buhari.

4. Played a prominent role in uprooting an incumbent President (GEJ) and installing a President and Vice President.

5. Very adept in fishing out traitors e.g. Saraki, Obaseki.

6. Very smart to ALWAYS see the bigger picture. He ignores the trivial matters. Dino Melaye and Bukola Saraki insulted him many times, he ignored them and hit them where it hurt the most - at home. Made them politically irrelevant.

7. Fearless unlike Atiku who retracted the tweet condemning Deborah's lynching or Peter Obi who ran from PDP Primaries even before the battle started.

8. Certified warrior. He confronted OBJ as President and survived (very few ever did). He confronted the so-called Cabal twice with EMILOKAN and predicting chaos & anarchy with the fuel crisis & cash shortage even before the effects manifested.

9. Uncanny ability to form alliances and incredible negotiation skills. El Rufai, Akeredolu and Fayemi have ALL insulted him publicly. He NEVER responded once. When the time came, they all bowed and showed their unflinching loyalty. How did he do it?

10. Who beats the President + Vice President + Senate President + Party Chairman COMBINED? Some claim he bought the votes. Do you have an idea what Governors get as security votes monthly?


Ladies & Gentlemen.... allow me to introduce the next President of Nigeria - Asiwaju Jagaban, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Martin Corridon, a seasoned political analyst writes from Princeton, USA

MaobiCarl:
Three generations wiped off.. Nobody left to mourn or remember them

Ladoja19:
Maybe he voted for this calamity

TRUTHaDDICTED:
For me, the statement from Fubara is a political statement. It's a matter of time before Wike wakes up from his power-drunk slumber and realize that Tinubu has been politically using Fubara to deflect his political balance on a low key . Nobody should claim to be too sure on the prediction of the impending Cabinet reshuffle, after all it can be argued politically that Tinubu has compensated Wike for his role during the presidential election, his efforts alone didn't make him president after all.

EreluRoz:
Nigeria's problem is very big, these marketers are actually the ones killing the country.
If Obi hadn't read it's ugly head by causing big distraction in the last presidential election we won't be where we are today.

If you all want to remove asiwaju let a strong northerner come out and Obi should deputize him, that's the only out else asiwaju remains your president for eight years.

IAMTHEHERO:
“For this local government, we will protect and die,” he added. “They have burnt Ikwerre, and Emouhua (council secretariats). We are ready for them,” he said, daring the hoodlums.
- Chijioke Ihunwo.
This is coming from Chairman with steel balls. The Chairman l voted for last Saturday. You have made me not to regret coming out to vote last Saturday.

But for Sim;
I regret supporting this Sim. I will surely vote against him.

The day Wike will chase Sim out of government house, l will join Wike. A governor that doesn’t know the power he has. Even when the people, Ateke Tom, Asari, Kachi , George and Ibiyeomie are with him, he is still behaving like a weakling, his origin should be queried if he is from Riverline area of the state.

EnglandAmaka:
Obi Nwali you mean

frlday2:
If wike have succeeded in winning the local government election...by now he would be granting press conference up and down

Ezemarcel:
When u betray your friend to an enemy... Never expect that enemy to trust you

ddippset:
This Chijoke Ihunwo seems like a very tough guy.

He's from the same LGA as Wike and he's not even scared.

For the past one year he's been firing Wike from all angles, insulting and violating him.


Who is this Chijoke Ihunwo?

Chairperson in Rivers orders Wike’s name removed from council building named after minister
Wike hails from the council area and is a former chairperson of the council.

Chijioke Ihunwo, the newly inaugurated chairperson of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State has ordered that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s name be blotted out of a building in the council secretariat.

Mr Ihunwo, who visited the council secretariat on Monday, ordered that the administrative block hitherto named after Mr Wike be renamed “Obi Wali House.”


The chairperson was at the secretariat about an hour after the Ikwerre and Emohua local government secretariats were set ablaze by hoodlums.

Mr Ihunwo was elected chairperson in the local election conducted on Saturday. The police barred officers from providing security for the election, citing a court order.



After the elections, the police unsealed all the council secretariats in Rivers.


The hoodlums, who attacked the two council secretariats, had a field day after the police operatives left.

“I want to advise Rivers State Police Command, let them be neutral,” Mr Ihunwo said in a video posted on his X handle on Monday.

“For this local government, we will protect and die,” he added. “They have burnt Ikwerre, and Emouhua (council secretariats). We are ready for them,” he said, daring the hoodlums.

“This name here,” he said, pointing to the top of a duplex in the council secretariat with the inscription “Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike ADMIN BLOCK.”



“He (Wike) does not allow the people to rest. On that note, as the chairperson of the council I have renamed it Obi Wali House,” he said amidst cheers.

He said the changes would be made tomorrow morning and dared anyone to challenge his decision.

Mr Wike first served as chairperson of Obio/Akpor local government council for two terms ending in 2007.

He was thereafter appointed as chief of staff to then-Governor Rotimi Amaechi, a position he served before he was appointed as minister of state for Education under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Mr Jonathan’s wife, Patience, who hails from Rivers State, helped Mr Wike to become the governor of the oil-rich state in 2015. He was reelected in 2019 serving through 2023 after which he was appointed the minister of FCT by President Bola Tinubu.

Mr Wike and his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara have been fighting each other over the control of the political structure in Rivers.

Obi Wali at a glance

Late Mr Wali hailed from Obio/Akpor. He was elected senator to represent Port Harcourt District.

Eric Teniola, a columnist in Vanguard newspaper said Mr Wali was in the league of intellectuals like Gani Fawehinmi, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.




Mr Teniola described Mr Wali’s intellectual contributions in the Senate as “exceptional.”

The late senator was murdered at home in his bedroom by suspected assassins on 26 April 1993.

In his memorial, the Rivers State Government in 2014 commissioned the Obi Wali Conference Centre in Port Harcourt to honour his political and literary contributions.

The people of his ethnic group – Ikwerre in Rivers State – instituted an annual memorial lecture in his honour.

Mr Ihunwo in the video said Mr Wali was an Ikwerre who had been of tremendous help to the people of Ikwerre.

“So, I have renamed it as Obi Wali House,” he announced.

This is the second time in four months that Mr Wike has been humiliated in his local government area, since the beginning of his political rift with Governor Fubara.

PREMIUM TIMES in June reported how the youths of the area violently pulled down Mr Wike’s statue in Obio/Akpor council secretariat.


The youths accused the minister of sending police to attack them for demanding council officials to vacate office after the expiration of their three-year tenure.

The former officials, who are allies of Mr Wike, had refused to vacate office, triggering violent clashes with Mr Fubara’s supporters which resulted in the death of two persons, including a police operative.