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If actually Mbape's made this claim the way it is, then he is either more corrupt or fully supports the corruption.

If not, what stops him from calling the name or names of the officials involved as a step towards exposing and curbing the shameful and evil act?

I sincerely believe that if anyone involved in corruption of any kind (especially in sports) is publicly dragged on social media, the rate of corruption will drastically reduce.

My submission.

Send her to the family of the victims lets see how it goes. After that, the police can take what remains of her.

Nonsense and APC

May God see him through.
But then, PO is the real plug now.

I pity the lady in her new home, unless she carry juju.
I understand the frustration of the young man who was so trusting.
If I were the man to be WELDED to the lady, I swear that's the end of the marriage. I won't allow any form of WELDING in the name of wedding.

Shut up there.
It simply means that you are corrupt; a scamin yourcountry; a thief without shame.

Twitter is simply warning your country to be careful with you.

Madam Ugwuanyi is visionless, if not totally useless to Enugu as a governor.

How I wish he loses his senate bid.

ChukwuObe:
But its easy for the fools to believe Kanu the terrorist that Buhari is dead and that the man in Aso rock now is not Buhari but one cloned Jibrin from Sudan. Hahahahahaha. How foolish could you be!

Eeyaaaa!
But the story no add up nah.

Zonefree:
Would have been one urchin less to worry about.

Lower the volume please

Obi is a goal!
Soludo can wail more!
Chimaroke Nnamani can increase the volume of his cry!
Free and fair election is all INEC can ensure and Nigeria will be happy forever.

P+PO

Morocco for finals.
Put your joy on this and celebrate afterwards.

Feel free to quote me any day and time on this.

On that day, before kickoff, remind me to tell you who will win the cup

A. 3+3+3=9 (addition of 3 wine bottles)
B. 3+5=8 (3= one of the A wine bottles; 5= a new wine bottle)
C. 3+2+2=7 (3=A; 2=a glass of wine)
D. 3+{(2×0.5)(2×0.5)}×5=?
=3+{(1)(1)}×5=?
=3+1×5=?
=3+(1×5)=?
=3+5=8.

Note: the 2 half glasses are not to be added, but multiplied). If they were meant to be added, they would have been separated with a + sign.
If one goes by adding the two halves, then it will be :
3+(1+1)×5=?
3+(2×5)=?
3+10=13

I rest my case.

mickyus4uyahoo:
I wonder when Peter Obi will go to mosque to worship with the Muslim

His running-mate does that for him. So his team is balanced.

adamusuleiman1:
Obi is popular within the Christian community.

Unfortunately, only Atiku seems to be popular within the Muslim community.

Any between them that is popular among the non-Christians and non-Muslims will win the election. In this case, I think equity and justice will play a significant role. PO×2

oluseyiforjesus:
Dis man health is not fit for all ds he's doing
It's difficult for kingmaker to be king

Why?
Why alway so?
I sincerely need to know why?
I have experienced this and that's why I ask?

IdiotOjukwu:
If not for some naive. Yoruba youth, Obi name should have been banned in South West. Everywhere online, you will never find a single Igbo who is not for Obi. That's how to understand conspiracy. There criticism of Tinubu is a reflection of their habitual discrimination of every top Yoruba men. .

I remember how we all celebrated Chimamanda Adichie breakthrough with her novel. That same lady later used her platform to lampoon Adeleke, a Yoruba writer. Don't think I recalled the name correctly. We all celebrated the brilliance of Okonjo Iweala, Charles Soludo and every member of Obasanjo economic team. We aren't even mindful of the fact that Frank Nweke Junior was playing the role of Lai Mohammed. But they castigated Kami Adeosun and mock her exit from Buhari government . Every brilliant Yoruba personality in Buhari government, they painted as incompetent.

We still respect Chinua Achieve till date but they spare no word of commendation for Whole Soyinka. To them, he is a puppet of the nobel Laurette organization in Stockolm. They even forget the sacrifice he made for them during the Biafra war.

Generation Z, you are on the bed with the worng people. You join the self adulation bandwagon but always quick to criticize your your. Your obsession with trend has made your lost your self awareness. Your are caught in do not let behind syndrome .

Are you sick or what?
What's this rubbish for, politics or just deliberate intent to promote tribal sentiment against the Igbos of the SE?

Please, grow pass this or die shamelessly.

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Obisbetter:
A Nigerian Man by name Jpac has taken Peter Obi campaign to world cup in Qatar.

Omoh. Peter Obi is clear . His organic support is top notch .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2sT3QpUu5I

1. Obidattis started road-walk-rally, APC and PDP mocked them and dismissed their move as worthless and politically unproductive. However, the two parties now engage in the road-walk-rally more than the initiators.

2. Obidattis started gofund app as political strategy, they were mocked and accused of being unable to fund their political campaign. Few days later, a political party celebrated how much they were able to raise through the same gofund app. Funny!

3. Less I forgot, Obidattis were said to be only on social media. However, today, the reverse is the case. The two major political parties spend more to promote and maintain their online presence while Obidattis are mor on ground doing great work in silence.

4. Now that Obidattis have decided to go to world with the best in the world, who knows what is next for APC and PDP.

Watching obediently!

Read his full responds to Soludo's claims below.

femisplash:
Let that fraud reply Soludo and refute his claims if dem born am well.
We have a duty to Educate Ipobs whose souls are steeped in hate and bitterness.
https://edurank.org/uni/chicago-state-university/alumni/

Peter Obi’s Response to Soludo

On the comments by my very respectable elder brother, Soludo: I and Soludo have come a long way; he’s my brother, he’s my friend, he’s the governor of my state. And as governor of my state, I pray for him to do well. And I support him – it’s very important and critical. He has his own opinions. His opinion might not be the opinion of the people of Anambra state. It might not be the opinion of the Southeast or Nigerians. But I respect his opinion because it is his opinion. And he’s a respected person as far as I am concerned. And he is my governor. But to clarify so that people can understand, the investment I did in Anambra state – before I talk about investment – the only measure of development while I was governor was Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is MDGs that India, China and Vietnam mainstreamed into their development agenda. For China, they used it to pull 439 million people out of poverty between year 2000 and 2015. India within this period pulled 276 million out of poverty. And Vietnam did almost 40 to 50 million out of poverty. I became governor in 2006, was impeached ending of 2006. Came back. When they said I should pay money for me not to be impeached, I said no, I can’t pay people for doing the wrong thing. I will rather go. But I came back (as governor). They started MDG in 2000. After my impeachment, I came back in 2007, and started implementing MDG. By the time Nigeria ended MDG in 2015, Anambra state was number 1. The person in charge of pulling people out of poverty, Dr Magnus Kpakol, go and ask him about certificate for being number one. He’s still alive. Go to department of statistics, I was the first governor to do a statistical record of poverty. I won a prize from Federal Ministry of Works for having the best road network. When I started, we were number 26 and 27 in WAEC and NECO (exams); by the time I left we were number one. I won Bill Gate prize for health. I can go on and on and say this is what we achieved. But the overall measure is MDG. I was number 1. I was even invited to United Nations to share my experience. The day I left office, I was not owing any contractor who had executed his job. I didn’t say I was not owing for any contract awarded. You can only pay when the job is executed. I was not owing any supplier who supplied anything. Examples are (companies) like Innoson, Zinox Computers. I paid Zinox, and we bought the highest amount of computers ever bought by a government in Africa – they are here. HP will tell you the same thing. I paid them 6 months upfront before they supplied it to our schools. I paid Innoson one year before he delivered any car. You can go and verify all these. Above these, I decided from day one that we must have savings as a state. We must save at least 10% of my total receipt by the time I leave government. Total money received by Anambra state while I was governor – whether state, local government, IGR – everything was about 500 and something billion Naira, out of which the day I left office, we had savings of 75 billion naira, and this is how the money was shared: We saved in dollars in three banks in Nigeria: Access, Diamond and Fidelity banks. In each of these banks, I had savings of 50 million dollars. And they were invested at at least interest of six and a half per cent. If you calculate it today, as at that time it was the equivalent of 25 billion. If you calculate it today with interest, it is at least 250 million dollars. In each of these banks, I Invested at least 10 billion Naira, making it N30 billion at an average interest of about 10%. If you calculate it today, that money would be about 60 billion. Remember what I left is 75.
The third one is investment I did in various companies – like NIPP, we have 59 million dollars in it. The one they are saying is worthless is that we invested 3.5 billion in international breweries, a global company, part of a company which is the biggest brewer in the whole world. We had a policy while I was governor that any foreign investor who wants to invest in Anambra state we will buy 10% of the company, and under the condition that it will give Anambra people employment of not less than 40% of the workers. They built the facility in Anambra state. That facility is there today, employing directly and indirectly over 10,000 Anambrarians. They’ve been one of the highest revenue source for the state, even some of their waste, the biggest piggery we have in Anambra state collects waste from them, there are so many things that company has done in terms of helping the state, transporters, etc. The shares were at a time being sold at 50 naira. Today the shares are about 5 naira or so. Maybe that was what was referred to (by Soludo), but in the overall of what I left, its less than 5% - that particular investment (that Soludo mentioned) is less than 5%. So if you calculate what I left, I left 75 billion. If you go and sell the dollars today even at N600, it’s 150 billion, plus 60 billion of the naira, it’s 210 billion. Even if that one is wasted, three times what I invested is still there. When you spread your investment, some will go up, some will come down, but overall, the company is still there, still doing well, and it’s still part of a global chain.
I needed to explain it not because I’m defending (myself regarding) the comments by my brother; my brother is my brother and remains my brother; we’re very close, and I remain prayerful for him. For other things I didn’t succeed, God has given him opportunity to do it and succeed (smiles). If there’s anything pending, in governance you don’t finish (everything), you stop where you stop, other people will continue from there. I don’t look back, he’s the governor of my state, he’s my senior brother, he’s even more intelligent than me because he’s a professor, I’m a trader, he knows more, so he will be able to do things better than I did it. You know I’ve done my little as a trader. Now the professor is there. He will do his own as a professor, The schools I didn’t roof, he will roof them. That’s how government goes. Another person comes, does his own. Finally, please, get involved. All of us (presidential candidates) are going to tell you a good story, say the same thing, but who can we trust? Even in this one they are talking about, some say he kept money and he did nothing, and I say ah ah even in the bible the man said since you couldn’t do this, why didn’t you save my money? If everybody who has led who did nothing kept money, would we have problem now? We would have had money to do something. At least I kept the money. But in this one, I did something and I kept money….
Nobody is a saint. I am not I have never claimed to be, and I don’t know everything. The little I know, I’ve tried. If you say you will fight corruption, let’s know where you passed through. How much did you leave there, how much was missing. At least today I’ve said where I left 150 million dollars, and 30 billion naira. Let others come and show where they left their own. Go to Anambra state, if you see a piece of land allocated to Peter obi, or his wife or anybody, directly or indirectly, come I will stop campaigning. So I say I will fight corruption head-on because I’ve experimented it somewhere…
- Peter Obi @ LBS 15/11/2022

[quote author=wwwihy post=118451654]Only one unserious candidate with no manifesto has not updated his Bio.

That tells you all you need to know.


https://twitter.com/TheoAbuAgada/status/1592952200745349121[/quote]I thought PO was gunning for twitter president. I never knew that he was not among the candidates for the president of twitter until now.
So he is the only one for the real life Nigeria's president.

Besides, why is PO the only headache of all the political parties?

I thought we have 18 of them.

Why can't PO from a no structure party be ignored?

I suspect BAT and Atiku's media and spokesmen are working for PO's publicity department.

Let's be wise.

Penguin2:
Lol!

When Andy Uba was buying every politician in Anambra, you people rejoiced that he has bought all the “structures” he needs to win.

We laughed at you guys and told you he won’t come second; that Soludo is the next governor of Anambra and it happened.

Now, same us who made Soludo governor are telling you that his political career is dead and over and you are arguing.

Your doubt will be cleared as usual.

If we can bear grudges against Buhari since the 1980s till now, how long is 4 years?

You don’t know the Igbos.

Soludo will win his second term bid for one reason and that is to not allow his zone govern for 8year8 years. Another reason is to avoid his zone crying for being short changed.

However, unless he apologizes and withdraws his utterances against PO, his political career, after being the state governor, is dead already.

He will leave politics like Willy Obiano.

I think you write better than Profs. Are you one?
Are you a debate coach?
Are you a SAN?
Seriously, I would like to know you more personally if you don't mind.

What a smooth flowing seemingly unbiased analysis.
Respects!

StrongD:
Been posted elsewhere but still worth reading. Quite long: about 8-10min reading

I read the actual text of Soludo's recent piece. There were many problems with his piece but people are bashing him for the wrong reasons. They are misreading the main thrust of his write-up, one in which I—and, incidentally, Peter Obi— wholly agree with. Nevertheless, I'll first address issues with the piece, while showing where it is correct.

Despite claiming that he acknowledged the achievements of all his predecessors he did not try, in his write up, to present any sort of balance on Obi. Rather, he appeared to unearth all possible disagreements with his legacy that he could claim while failing to state any positives.

Particularly worrying would be his claim to certain statistics that directly run counter to what is known Obi achieved. For example, it is well documented that Obi improved the economic and educational metrics of the state such that, as even judged at the time by the economic teams of rival governors, he was voted the best. Thus, if things were really X bad with Obi, they were sort of X² bad with others.

He even presented his efforts (looking out also for corrections and advice to improve) in their then organised forum for accountability and better governance: the first to do so. No other governor agreed to present afterwards, thus, such laudable ongoing series was forced to die.

The metrics of education, power supply (eg, provided transformers widely among other efforts), health ( eg, water supply to primary health centres) and, overall, what was palpably experienced on the ground was clearly better at the end of his tenure than at Obiano's end. Even Obiano's signature projects —eg, the Awka flyovers he engraved with his name and the airport— were started by Obi and funded by Obi's savings: as expected, since Obi's tenure was during a more buoyant oil revenue period.

The insistence of saddling Obi with the moniker of someone who was only interested in hoarding funds is very untrue and beginning to seem a deliberate effort (particularly by an economist). Obi actually spent more on state needs from his revenue than his predecessors and successor. Had he stayed a 3rd term, the airport he had just relocated to northern Anambra would have been constructed by him and those flyovers in Awka (he had already redone Onitsha's roads and the notorious Upper Iweka: all much more than anything Obiano did road-wise). His uniqueness was in trying to conserve where expenditure (especially in cost of governance) was deemed not necessary, with an eye for investment in the future of the children of the state.

In doing so he made some mistakes. I agree with Soludo that a number of the roads Obi built for rural towns and villages were not as durable as those made by Ngige. He seems to have chosen road options that would bear light vehicles transporting farm produce from such places to towns for sale. The breakdown of the major federal roads made most heavy traffic divert to such new and good roads so they degraded faster than planned. Despite this, they lasted 7-10 years.

Someone once told me that the most important issue in building a structure is committing oneself to the maintenance one's initial choice for the structure would demand. Just as he first built those roads out of virtually no roads, he would have been very well capable of maintaining them as due. Unfortunately, the time for their maintenance started occuring largely in the middle of Obiano's time, who simply neglected them to completely fall apart. Despite it being possible that a better option could have been reached, the most important thing here is that Obi had a plan and executed it fairly, a plan that did not deprive his people of their resources in any way. Moreover, his humility helps him learn from substandard situations.

Similarly, I am befuddled by what metric is Soludo claiming the jump in poverty under Obi and a significant shrinking by Obiano's end? I am not an economist but it is only the opposite I experienced in my wide interactions within my state. This could be one of those situations where one users an unnatural metric to extrapolate: "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics). A present-day one is that from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which says Nigeria's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at basic prices grew by 3.11 per cent in quarter one of 2022 on a year-on-year basis. Does this seems to indicate that we are 3.11% better than last year? Is this what is actually being felt on the ground? Why people are running out of the country faster now than ever before? Bear in mind that even the "almighty" NNPC has not been remitting anything to the states.

The problems with Soludo's piece are why many consider this saga to simply be yet another step the political elite are taking to crush the groundswell threatening to disturb their "business as usual". This is also the main reason Obi keeps travelling around to speak with them: to ensure they, at best, be neutral instead of working assiduously against him. He will need all hands on deck (one way or another) to help reverse the sinking ship that is Nigeria.

Let us not forget that the only reason Obi became governor is the personal conviction of Ojukwu in his person. Ojukwu, after interacting with him, declared him as the man to lead our people forward. I remember him begging Ndi Anambra that he was an old man soon to pass on but that they should do this for him, that one time, because they were really doing it for themselves and their children. Despite all that, it was Ngige's falling out with the PDP godfather, and refusing Abuja's directive to make up with him that enabled Obi to prevail at court. Obi was then impeached by the elite (but saved, again, by the courts) when they could not resurrect their business as usual.

Good arguments, some already given by Soludo, can be given for it being better for Obi to have stayed put in that one party: APGA. However, other good arguments can be made for the opposite, especially for someone hoping to do good at Aso Rock. Why should someone —a real businessman— persist in a venture that had no hope of success, simply because it is an Igbo party, a success that is not supposed to be for the Igbo people alone? In fact, for simply being APGA, most in other parts of the country would not have voted it. Labour is clearly tribe agnostic (for now). It also lacks the bad history of PDP. So, if APGA can only win in Anambra —a state that Soludo even agrees Obi in Labour is likely to win it's presidential votes— contesting on the APGA's platform will be a minus nationwide where it lacks Labour's clean slate. The only place APGA has formidable structure is Anambra. Moreover, Labour connects an aspirant with all public workers and Labour activists nationwide who, with the aggrieved youth, give one a much more credible 3rd way than APGA ever could. Obi then buttressed it all by explicitly telling people not to vote for him if it is simply because he is Igbo.

I also agree, in a large part, with Soludo's assessment of the quest for Igbo presidency and the lack of long-term strategy by Ndi Igbo. This is borne out of the understandable desire to have some from the SE rule in turn with others: very difficult due to not being enshrined by law and low overall voting clout. Unfortunately, we all now have a culture of turn-by-turn chopping or turn-by-turn development through one's town's man at the top. For example, this is how Enugu State now runs. However, as said earlier, saddling Obi with merely a realisation of Igbo rule —however laudable one's as may be— is myopic, stunting and not what he presently stands for. So all that assessment is irrelevant.

I agree with Soludo's knock on Obi's investment of state funds in a business of which he was a member of its board. It raises ethical questions. However, remember who we are talking about and you see its consistency with his erstwhile actions. He is a trader who deals with what he knows, even when trying to act selflessly. He returned to Missionary systems for previously missionary schools because he knew them to run well when they had them. He, seeing some surpluses in state funds, wanted to invest them in structures he had personally experienced and believed were on an upward trajectory, so much so that if the state ended up losing money, he too will lose money because his money was there too. In fact, their value only started to dip following the overall distress businesses were experiencing (more businesses failing) during Obiano's latter years. It first proves that there was more poverty during Obiano and, secondly that Obiano's economic team should have been monitoring the investments to know when to sell them and buy other upwardly mobile shares. Nothing stays permanent.

All the above not withstanding, many Obi supporters are acting like the present day Western "progressives" who do not allow others to have a point of view different from theirs without trying to bury them. That is wrong. Live and let live. Engage their points and, if you both remain with your initial convictions, simply agree to disagree. Even inconceivably worse are those who try to harm Soludo (or anyone else) who simply disagrees that Obi is the right option.

Now to be clear, this is not in any way the fault of Obi. It is a groundswell of frustrations of people seeing their future evaporate and, thus flailing and grasping out for a support. It is well known that one has to be very careful (and, better, trained!) before trying to rescue a drowning man. His desperation may sink you too. See the widespread protest in Iran. Their corruption is no where near ours but see the reactions. If there was even a modicum of opposition leader there, would it not have been false to saddle him with the responsibility of violent protests, simply because he is seen as an alternative to the rulers?

Obi himself has announced to his supporters the need for moderation and respect multiple times (as is well evident in his person). In fact, there is absolutely no evidence anyone can present that shows Obi egging anyone on. So, how can he, in good conscience, be saddled with the responsibility of the actions of drowning men, men being drowned by the effects of successive PDP and APC leaders?

In any case, please let us be civil. Thank you for the patience to read this very long piece.

Cuntface:
Soludo just killed his political career in anambra state

Next election will teach him a serious lesson.

He quickly forgot that he became a governor because the citizens were out to take bullet for him just as more are out to take bullet for PO.

He quickly forgot that most political heavyweights were against him, yet he wan because he was the people's choice just as PO is.

He quickly forgot that he was politically no match for the Ubas and their likes just as PO/LP might be considered no match for Tinubu/APC & Atiku/PDP, yet he won because the people were with him.

As he has decided to go against the people's wish, let's see how the next election will be if he continues this way.

He might eventually leave APGA.

I sincerely like listening to Prof Yemi Osibanjo talk. He's so fluent and naturally make sense when not defending his party.

I wished he had won the APC presidential ticket. He stood a better chance of winning the election on merit than APC & PDP candidates in the race.

For now, it's PO and the rest.

Askng:
Time Tell Time


Time,
tick, tick it moves,
unrestrained by mortal powers,
trampling on all, silently.
Leaving some behind,
taking many along its gentle or dreary path,
for one, a fulfilled destiny,
some in regrets,
others in grandiose adulation,
Yet subjected to the change of time,
to some with open gates and palaces of passing filth,
to others, the gates are closed as enemy to time.
moments alter our state speedily,
Joys too soon mutates in this clime.
Yet Time, unrelenting.
Time, Tell Time.
to some, it appears as Friend,
to others, it veils itself in darkness as a foe,
who can appease Time?
it rushes upon us from cradle
leaves memories or takes us both away.
Leading to the paths of innumerable choices
Time,
Tell Time.

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/time_tell_time_1501968

Beautiful piece!
More of this.

Meanwhile, permission to use it elsewhere.

2×2 above your current age ✌

Tobi remains the world record holder and world champion anyways

justicechichex:
Omoh they should allow this babe to rest na. Tobi if dem no give u rest, then u give yourself rest.


Body no be firewood.

Very simple!

Obasanjo must have told him to step down for Obi.

PandoraObi:
Lalong is just wasting his time, he is speaking with same Igbos that are celebrating unknown gunmen killing fellow igbos, the same igbos that went into ozubulu Catholic church to massacre them, trying to appease your sworn enemies is a waste of time, they are not after you, they are after Tinubu

I sensed stupidity in you.
What concerns Igbos in this issue.
Well, stupid hate is a birthday gift from your ancestors to you.
Enjoy.

Keyamo, please hide your face in shame

OritaIbadan:
Your mumu never do. I was in Camp for the convention, is obvious you don't know what is going on. We are solidly behind Peter Obi and will vote for him overwhelmingly. I doubt if you are a Christian or a member of RCCG'. Bro don't even mention Tinubu to the Church, that name irritates at the moment

Bros, you fall my hands ooo. How could go so low as to reply that stupid idiot. He doesn't worth getting your prizes attention.

I blame his parents. #20 CD would have solved this problem for Nigeria.

I think it is high time PO be banned from visiting churches during special programs to avoid disruption of the programs and or overtaking the popularity of the pastors in their own churches.


OBIdient forever!

Sleekfingers:
Who is pope? A bloody pedophile.

Who are you?
Probably, a bastard.