DomPerignon: Peter Obi maintains a stance that the 1999 Constitution is not the primary cause of Nigeria’s problems, arguing instead that bad leadership is the root issue.
In August 2022, Obi stated that while the Constitution may have flaws, "it is bad leadership" that is keeping the country down.
During the 2023 presidential campaign, he pledged allegiance to the document, declaring he would "govern with the Constitution of Nigeria."
Following the 2023 election ruling, he reiterated that his movement would "give primacy to our Constitution," the rule of law, and ordered liberties. Critics, such as Ndidi Uwechue, argue that Obi’s attachment to the 1999 Constitution is problematic, labeling the document a "fraudulent" and "neocolonial tool" that hijacks sovereignty, and asserting that it is the foundational problem preventing true independence.
Peter Obi during a campaign visit to the Arewa House in Kaduna in October 2022, where he met with northern elders and stakeholders, explicitly assured the elders that he would uphold the 1999 Constitution and would not tamper with it.
He stated:
"I am not denying where I am coming from, I’m running as a Nigerian and I believe in and defend the Constitution of Nigeria and will govern with the Constitution of Nigeria."
He further emphasized that his administration would respect the rule of law and the existing constitutional framework, aiming to allay fears among northern leaders about potential agitations for restructuring or sovereignty that might affect the region's interests.
During his 2022 campaign visit ti Arewa House, Kaduna (the historic home of northern leaders) before an audience of Northern elders, including members of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other stakeholders, Obi promised to govern strictly by the 1999 Constitution without seeking to alter its fundamental structure to the detriment of any region, specifically addressing northern concerns about resource control and state sovereignty.
How some misguided southern youths see this man as a reformist when he has shown severally with his utterances that he is a Conformist, only God can explain.
What positive change can happen under such an individual who has shown great disdain for states controlling their own resources and how can there be any meaningful growth under such an arrangement that robs Peter to pay Paul?
When will you start telling the truth and make speaking the truth a priority?
frankson1: Na Tinubu make you no sabi read to know the content of the post
Supporting nonsense has made you not to remember that, your tinibu is the commander in chief of the armed forces. What this means is that as the commander in chief, he knows about the negotiations and the reintegration of the terrorists in the country.
DomPerignon: Mbanda what do you have to say about your Obi pledging to northern elders at Arewa House in August 2022 not to tamper with the 1999 constitution and to ensure that resource control for states never see the light of day
I need to verify first because I don't know you as a soothsayer.
Mattswaggz: Nigerian Soldiers Reject Fresh Move To Deploy ‘Repentant’ Terrorists In Military Operations, Fear Sabotage, Intelligence Leaks
Nigerian soldiers battling Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East have accused the Borno State government of issuing a fresh directive compelling them to work alongside ‘repentant’ terrorists who were recently reintegrated into society under the state’s controversial deradicalisation programme.
The development, according to serving military personnel who spoke to SaharaReporters, has triggered unease within frontline formations, with many soldiers expressing fears that the arrangement could expose military operations to renewed sabotage and intelligence leaks.
Sources told SaharaReporters that some of the former Boko Haram fighters who publicly pledged loyalty to the Nigerian state during recent reintegration exercises have now been mobilised and attached to local security groups that support military operations against insurgents across parts of Borno State.
The soldiers alleged that the move was part of efforts by the state government to justify its rehabilitation and reintegration programme, which has come under criticism from members of the public, including victims of insurgency and some security personnel.
According to the sources, military authorities and troops on the ground remain sceptical about the sincerity of several former insurgents despite undergoing rehabilitation programmes.
“The government wants to prove that the reintegration programme is working, so some of these ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members are being attached to security groups that work with troops in operations,” one soldier told SaharaReporters.
“But many of us are uncomfortable with the arrangement because there have been cases in the past where information leaked and operations were compromised. Trust is a major issue.”
Another source said soldiers have deliberately kept some of the former insurgents at separate locations within military facilities because of fears that they could still maintain links with active terrorist cells operating in the region.
“We don’t trust them completely. There have been too many incidents in the past. That is why they are often given separate accommodation. Yet now there is pressure for us to work closely with them during our missions,” the source said.
“You can see how these Boko Haram fighters have been killing our ogas (commanders). That should tell you there is a leak in information about their movements. Yet the government is asking us to trust these people and work with them. It won’t work,” the source said.
The soldiers argued that instead of compelling troops to collaborate with former Boko Haram fighters, the Nigerian government should focus on providing better equipment, intelligence support and welfare packages for personnel risking their lives in the fight against terrorism.
According to them, the latest directive has generated anxiety among troops who fear that operational details could once again find their way to insurgent groups still active in parts of Borno and neighbouring states.
The concerns come barely two weeks after the Borno State government reintegrated 720 ‘repentant’ insurgents, alongside 992 spouses and 2,050 children, into various communities under its “Borno Model” deradicalisation and rehabilitation programme.
The beneficiaries were among former insurgents who surrendered to security forces and subsequently underwent rehabilitation at the Hajj Camp in Maiduguri before being formally returned to society.
Speaking during the reintegration ceremony, the Special Adviser to Governor Babagana Zulum on Security and member of the state’s Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Committee, retired Brigadier General Abdullahi Ishaq, described the programme as a critical component of Borno’s non-kinetic strategy against insurgency.
He said the initiative, which began in July 2021, was founded on forgiveness, rehabilitation and community acceptance of former insurgents willing to renounce violence.
[According to Ishaq, more than 350,000 individuals have reportedly left insurgent camps and surrendered since the programme commenced, while a total of 9,680 persons have been reintegrated through nine batches.
The official maintained that those processed through the programme underwent vocational training, religious and behavioural reorientation, counselling and skills acquisition before being returned to their communities.
However, the programme has remained controversial, with critics questioning whether former insurgents can be fully trusted and whether adequate safeguards exist to prevent them from returning to extremist activities.
The latest concerns raised by soldiers suggest that those reservations persist even among security personnel directly engaged in counter-insurgency operations across the North-East.
Efforts by SaharaReporters to obtain a reaction from the Nigerian Army were unsuccessful as of the time of filing this report.
Several calls placed to the Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Appolonia Anele, went unanswered. A text message seeking the Army's response to the allegations was also sent to her and successfully delivered, but she had not responded at the time of filing.
IkeOnyia: Video has surfaced showing armed bandits passing through a police checkpoint freely.
In the video obtained by SaharaReporters, police officers were also seen directing and hailing a large number of gunmen as they passed through the checkpoint on their motorcycles.
Security sources told SaharaReporters that the incident happened recently between Zamfara and Sokoto states.
“Bandits with their weapons are moving freely,” a man who recorded the video could be heard saying in Hausa.
However, another man in the vehicle quickly asked him to keep quiet.
“Please keep quiet, why are you talking?” he said.
Zamfara, Niger, Katsina, Sokoto, and many other states in North-West and North-Central Nigeria are bedevilled by bandit attacks.
The bandits kill and kidnap at will despite the large deployment of police officers and soldiers to the affected states.
In 2019, the Zamfara State government under former governor and current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, entered into a peace agreement with the gunmen.
But despite the accord, communities in the state were frequently attacked, and residents were kidnapped and/or killed.
Counterigbolies: u still get mouth talk for here, u that created a thread to praise obi n u got bursted in the same thread that u created n u left never to look back
Reality will dawn on many of u before the election that obi don cast
The reality you are talking about is, rigging from tinibu that's what he is known for. But let's see how it goes this time.
Counterigbolies: so u talk full ground but when he reach to show evidence, make we go search our phones?
U people really think u are wise not knowing u are d opposite direction of wise
Your agulu packaged fraud is already casted n I will advice u now before it's too late that u should start looking for the best picture of the sokoto terrorist cos u will need it after the election
The bolded is the problem of every tinibu supporter too. How can you be supporting and defending failure and at the same time, parading yourself as a wise person. No be juju be dat?
DomPerignon: What is Giringori looking for in Ado Rock?
Obi simply wants to show you and your likes including tinibu that, he (Obi) can fix and correct the rots tinibu and buhari created in the Nigerian system.
ElSudani: Amateur politician. How did he get to become a governor? Rufai Oseni was asking him softball questions and he still couldn't answer them!
Goodvibes007: Resign and hand over to Shettima. Obi is indeed an idiot.
author=Goodvibes007 post=139797912]Resign and hand over to Shettima. Obi is indeed an idiot.[/quote]What exactly is that una god (tinibu) doing in that asorock?
Counterigbolies: one thing about u people is that u are not wise, at times u keep quiet so as to allow a mistake to die a natural death instead of bringing it back to live
Niger delta militants aren't fighting for seccesion but how their region can be compensated for oil spoilage and environmental pollution in their region can be addressed which isn't a crime.
Nnamdi kanu on the other hand is for secession which is treason, those two are absolutely different.
People who said obi will b a bad president have won on this one again, how can u release nnamdi kanu n u won't release Boko Haram terrorists too?
He's saying he will negotiate with agitators, so u want to tell me u don't know ISIS, al Qaeda, iswap and co are also agitating for something?
So after obi has released nnamdi kanu cos that what u people want, what if the isis and co made their demand and it's that all the south east people should change to muslim, will obi also grant that?
Like seriously it's becoming clearer that obi will b a disaster as a president
Lol.. person wey dey support tinibu is accusing people of not being wise, no be juju be dat?
Come to this of it, if you are in a place where you are not being treated well as a human being, it's natural to agitate in other to be free and stay on your own. So how is Kanu's agitation for a separate country for his people bad?
helinues: Was this same Peter Obi in Coma when [b[Nnamdi Kanu and his Ipob group were causing unnecessary insecurity in South East?[/b]
Lies is one of the reasons why, I don't agree with you and your likes. Kanu and his IPOB are innocent of all the crimes Nigerian government leveled against them through their yeye lagos Ibadan gutter press.
What happened in SE was a state sponsored attacks. And it was all in a bid of giving a dog a bad name in other to kpai it.
LegendHero: So Bianca first assignment is to get her kinsmen out of prison.
Now where is she going to dump them? Are they going to be free in Nigeria or will be in prison?
Make them sha no dump dem for Lasgidi
Can you tell us where tinibu dey dump his so-called "repentant boko haram and other terrorists"?
Why are you concerned about where the government are going to dump prisoners, but you don't care about where the same government are dumping their so-called repentant terrorists.
Judging from this, do you expect Igbos to take your tribe as what exactly?
WizardOfNG: Infantile idiocy. No Yoruba will ever say this garbage yet we know those who peddled "Buhari dead and replaced by Jubrin from Sudan" nonsense around the Universe.
Now you can see that there are, yourubas that can actually say that.
FSBoperator: Someone should remind Ken of this so he can invite Obiano to give testimony in court as evidence that Giringori has a long sordid history of demanding bribes from political aspirants in the sand party as his.
Mbanda what do you have to say here?
So, you believed that nonsense? You can as well believe that heaven is in Nigeria.
Macmoni: Bro, nobody wishes evil on you people, naturally you people are evil to yourselves atleast these are invaders from other places trying to invade Yoruba land but your people kpai themselves by themselves and blame others what a shame even if you’re left alone big you people will always orchestrate huge disaster on each other something the Yoruba never do nobody faces dose of their medicine reach that albino pork in sokoto
Point of correction, we Igbos love ourselves. Your lies and propaganda was as a result of what I call "state sponsored terrorism" and, Lagos Ibadan gutter press were the tool they used to propagate the lie you are telling us now.
We are not daft we know exactly what happened in our land. They made it like IPOB and Esn are terrorists.
FSBoperator: There was no such thing as Asaba massacre.
Murtala had hunted down Biafran rogue soldiers who were not able to escape across the Niger bridge before Ojukwu blew it up when his rogue invasive army retreated from the Midwest following their defeat at Ore.
Those so-called civilians were actually Biafran soldiers who had ditched their uniforms and tried to blend with the civilian population.
They were rounded up and summarily executed as spies as the United Nations war convention explicitly states that any belligerent party in a war must always maintain their uniforms and carry identification papers when surrendering. Those guys ditched their uniforms and wore mufti. Several were captured in Benin and Warri and summarily executed as spies as the Geneva convention does not apply to spies and since they ditched their uniforms, ranks and papers that would have identified them as would be POWs, the Geneva convention did not apply to them and as such were treated as spies and executed on the spot.
You should also be aware that Biafran soldiers retreating from the battle of Ore, pillaged every non Ibo community in the Midwest on their retreating path. These same banzas were part of the Biafran rogue army that could not make it across the Niger before Ojukwu blew the bridge up and decided to ditch their uniforms and blend in with the civilian population.
In Warri, word had gone out to the people to look out for any young able bodied man roaming around without a shirt or looking to steal clothing . The civilian population had seen several rogue Biafran soldiers going topless and searching people's cloth lines to steal their shirts.
Murtala did no wrong.
There is this iconic photo of a Vietnamese Colonel executing a North Vietnamese officer .
The NVA officer was in civilian clothes when he was captured and executed.
It so happen that the NVA had launched an offensive in the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon targeting US military bases in the famous Tet offensive.
When the story broke of the Vietnamese officer executing a '' civilian '' in broad daylight and the pictures splashed on newspapers back in the US, there were widespread condemnation
But when clarification was provided with a context that the '' civilian '' was a senior officer who partook in the Tet offensive and had ditched his uniform as he made a retreat, everywhere quieted down.
That's what happened in Asaba .
How is it possible to gather 800 civilians and they will all stand there and be shot before a crowd?
The execution and not massacre was carried on captured Biafra deserters who were lined up and executed before the Asaba crowd that were cooperating with the enemy as a stark example of what will befall any who continues to support Biafra.
Pic below is the iconic execution of a NVA officer who was captured during the Tet offensive being executed on the spot by a South Vietnamese officer.
Indeed, a typical timibu/APC supporter can never do without dishing out lies in great volume.
Are you telling us a history about what happened somewhere in Asia or, something all of us know that happened in my own backyard? Am telling you about a massacre that Asaba king and elders, came out and gave account of what really transpired. It doesn't matter how you twist the history what really matters is that Nigerian army commited genocide in Asaba.
WizardOfNG: Yet they will always insist they are victims and all others are villains.
Why is it that you lots (including rose bassey) don't like talking about the Asaba massacre? Those people that were murdered in Asaba by Nigerian army are they not humans?
Besides, how do we know that, it was actually Biafran army that did that?
Politics › Re: Obi Does Not Subscribe To Resource Control For States by Mbanda(m): 11:15am On Jun 26
