₦airaland Forum

Fynx:
I just asked Deepseek to save us the debate time:

Compare Umahi's tenure as Ebonyi governor and Obi's as Anambra governor based on the H e following indices: wealth creation, education, infrastructure, health, democratic credentials, fiscal policy. If you were to make any of them president of Nigeria, who will you choose?

Comparing the tenures of Dave Umahi (Ebonyi, 2015–2023) and Peter Obi (Anambra, 2006–2014) reveals two distinct governance philosophies. Umahi is a developmentalist focused on rapid, visible physical transformation, while Obi is a fiscal conservative who prioritized financial prudence and human capital development.

Here is a breakdown of their records:

Wealth Creation & Economy

· Umahi (Ebonyi): Focused on creating an enabling environment through infrastructure but faced challenges with fiscal health. IGR dropped 78.8% (N11bn to N2.34bn) early on and only recovered by 2020.
· Obi (Anambra): Leveraged Anambra's entrepreneurial base. Invested in a brewery employing ~500 directly. Left office with over $150 million and N36 billion in state savings.

Education

· Umahi (Ebonyi): Invested in new institutions like King David Gifted Academy and the David Nweze Umahi University of Medical Sciences. However, critics claim he inherited a strong system he later mismanaged.
· Obi (Anambra): Reversed decline by returning mission schools to their owners and funding them. Moved the state from 24th to 1st place nationally in WAEC/NECO exams.

Infrastructure

· Umahi (Ebonyi): His flagship achievement. Built/reconstructed over 1,500km of roads using concrete technology. Built flyovers and the Ebonyi Shopping Mall.
· Obi (Anambra): More conservative but substantial. Built over 800km of rural/urban roads and was recognized for constructing extensive road networks.

Health

· Umahi (Ebonyi): Established the David Umahi Federal University Teaching Hospital (DUFUTH) and an ultra-modern Cancer Centre. It has provided free care to over 8,000 vulnerable people.
· Obi (Anambra): Revamped and revitalized the health sector, taking it to "number 1 in the country". Focused on systemic upgrades across the state.

Democratic Credentials

· Umahi (Ebonyi): Criticized for authoritarian tendencies, including banning journalists and detaining a citizen over a Facebook post. Also defected from the PDP to APC mid-tenure.
· Obi (Anambra): Maintained a clean record with no corruption allegations. His governance is widely seen as accountable and transparent.

Fiscal Policy

· Umahi (Ebonyi): Expressed a dislike for borrowing. However, the state’s IGR struggled significantly during his early tenure, suggesting heavy reliance on federal allocations.
· Obi (Anambra): A fiscal hawk who established Nigeria's first sub-national Sovereign Wealth Fund. Famously left office with billions in savings rather than debt.

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My Choice for President: Peter Obi

If forced to choose, I would select Peter Obi. Here is why:

· Proven Fiscal Discipline: At the national level, where debt is a massive issue, Obi's record of saving and investing is invaluable. His "fiscal hawk" mentality is exactly what Nigeria needs.
· Human Capital Development: His tangible success in moving Anambra's education from 24th to 1st is a model for national transformation.
· Democratic Integrity: His administration was scandal-free and accountable, a non-negotiable quality for rebuilding public trust.
· A Balanced Approach: While Umahi's infrastructure is impressive, it is partly a "top-down" achievement. Obi's more holistic focus on human capital, financial prudence, and systemic reform offers a sustainable blueprint for a diverse and complex nation like Nigeria.

The pressing debate now is about Mary Habila, Hon. Minister.

Umahi is just only good in his field of civil engineering and nothing else he knows absolutely about good governance.

Is this inferiority complex or what exactly is umahi's problem? On what basis does he want a debate with obi is it to contest for the office of the minister of works? Hope is not the spirits of innocent people that's disturbing this man?

ewa20buredi100:
This is does not sound good at all.
Especially coming from the USA.

How did they allow the Islamic State to infiltrate them? All in the name of being woke and liberal.

You will never find a Christian or other non-muslims hold political positions in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or any other Islamic state, let alone dictates who who comes in and out of the country.



Nigerian Iranians over to you.

That's what US free society can throw up but the US system still has enough checks and balances to contain his excessives in case he decides to go rogue.

Haydens:
And them no cover themselves like how Muslims do, see how dem they flex their back weapons.

Rules are only meant for the poor l, rich and influential people can break it.

They even look like twins.

This boy looks 15 or 16yrs.

SmartPolician:
This is really commendable, but I am just wondering where the first lady got all this money she's throwing around from. How much is budgeted for office and how come they don't defend their budget in parliament?

Obviously looted from nigeria's common wealth the 2025 budget has only 30% implementation the rest of the money is obviously going into the pockets of remi and her husband.

Let's see if karma reengineering will help her husband win next year.

This one nah complete clown and efulefu.

Kingrshd3:
Local production that will be more costly than imported once ..

Local rice is around 75k and imported once are around 50k + 😂 😆

So what's the significance of local production 🤔

It's always easier said than done bro ..

It's all because of the unstable power once it's fixed cost of production will definitely come down.

madridguy:
Scared of opposition as how? So you want Tinubu to be buying form for opposition or what?

You know exactly what am talking about this is the very first time in nigeria's political history where all the opposition parties are having internal issues at the same time even the once mighty pdp couldn't even field a presidential candidate first time in their history all curtsey of apc style of destructive politics and u are there pretending it's all normal.

How did this tiny woman able to give birth to a whole four kids?

madridguy:
Leave long story bro. Emefiele effect " hiding money " and " fuel scarcity" are the major reasons many people voted against Tinubu in 2023. In 2027, no one will change the ink of our naira and cause money scarcity or hide fuel that will make NUPENG go on strike.
Tinubu don't even need to campaign too much.

So why is he scared of opposition?Everyone can clearly see how he is doing everything possible in trying to be a sole candidate.

Eba50:
even our south and eastern governor dey deceive am. come delta state for 3xample nobody wan hear tinubooo if u mention his name anywhere. u need see how people talk about getting, collecting and keeping PVC till election to vote out apc and u need see ndc crowd mobilization ward by ward

Omo the hate against tinibu is very real here in delta if this is exactly how most nigerians feels then tinibu stands absolutely no chance to be reelected in a free and fair contest accept through rigging.

Richtaiwo:
This is funnier than funny. Yet he is not desperate. How else can one be desperate?

So u want Obi to go against the north and south power sharing agreement to prove he is not desperate?

The girl in the picture above are commonly found in orgernised developed countries nigerian poverty rate has made most nigerians to be looking ugly and malnourished so for some poor nigerians that lives in obscure environment seeing beautiful people like these occasionally might be to them like seeing someone from another planet.

jogojogo:
Sahara rubbish!!!
You are just reiterating what Umahi had said.
Stop painting an impression to make Umahi look like he knows about the death of Habilah

God and karma knows everything.

Sheuns:
Someone assigned to prosecute corrupt officials is himself a corrupt person.

That's the nigerian contradictions for you.

This is definitely delta state.

TopBanter:
Amaechi is an emotional man always doing too much. How do you reject your ethnicity because you say some are persecuting you politically?

You say you are Igbo and then wish to stop being Igbo the minute some Igbos come for you over politics?

I am a proud Yoruba man. Nothing and no one can change that. Amaechi should learn to think before he rushes to talk.

He is just a fair weather politician that doesn't like any political stress that will affect his political career that's why he easily denies being igbo when an anti igbo govt takes over power but he still doesn't know those he is trying to impress will only use and dumb him, they still see him as an igbo man in their inner circle and won't support him to be nigeria's president when it matters most.

Abeg go and sit down somewhere igbos will gain absolutely nothing by accepting u or fighting for you politically you are even the one that first rejected being igbo on national tv that video is still very available online. When you were minister of transport the south east was completely abandoned while you focused on building modern railway in the south west, the north and even down to niger republic so why will any reasonable igbo person be concerned wether you agree to be igbo or not?

Mrfeel:
You can't make the decision of whether the girls prefer death than to live with the terrorist, if you asked them none of the girls will choose death, and in my opinion I think been captives in the terrorist camp is better than death, cause some of those girls that were kidnapped during the incident of the chikbok girls some of them ran back to the bush to live with the terrorist after they were rescued, some of them claimed they got married while they were there and love their terrorists husbands

So are u now advocating for secondary school girls to be married of to terrorists to be bringing in more terrorists to this world and forget about furthering their education?
If you are really educated enough you ought to have known that those kidnapped girls that were rescued and later returned back to the forest to reunite with their former captors are only suffering from Stockholm Syndrome a mental condition that requires therapy it's not something to be encouraged.
There's a reason why some countries don't negotiate with terrorists but prefers using maximum force instead cause they know if they start pampering and negotiating with terrorists like nigeria is currently doing their country will definitely be overrunned by terrorists and bandits like nigeria is currently witnessing.

He might definitely score up to 40 world cup goals before finally retiring from football.

Mrfeel:
Will you wish to be amongst the dead if such kidnapping happens? So human life means nothing in Nigeria anymore?

Which is better leave them to go with the terrorists who will definitely be using them as baby factories and sex slaves or engaging them in a battle to make sure they don't go with anyone? Chibok girls and leah shiabu are all still with these same terrorists till date producing little more terrorist kids in the forest is that what you want for these rescued girls?

Mrfeel:
The soldiers were careless to engage the terrorists in a gun battle knowing fully well the terrorist will use the students as human shield to escape, what type of training are Nigerian soldiers receiving?

Better to loose some few students than leave go with the whole students and continue paying huge ransom to them which they later use to buy more arms and spread their operations around nigeria.

BATified2023:
God bless this man, in the last election we saw how inec officials in a particular place that like to make noise d most are thumbprinting for people.

We also saw how one Cynthia okeke signed all EC3A form for virtually all states in that place still na Dem dey make noise pass.

They are d ones shouting they want free n fair election d most, I guess their own definition of free n fair is when they are allowed to cheat as they want n others are seriously guarded.

This is nothing compared to the rigging that happened behind inec's closed doors which everyone clearly saw when inec portal suffered glitches.

They weren't in any way spectacular all through the tournament it's really a mystery how they reached the finals England and Spain final would have been far more interesting and entertaining.

OSHIOJANLE:
So to go and rape is the best...?

Or go for one stupid girl to set you up with rape accusations..and go for 29 years in prison?

Because you did not pay agreed pice...

The world is stupid...

What saves you as a man from threat to comfort do it my advise...

How can porn save u when it amplify ur sexual urges the more? What happens when u are so sexually charged after watching porn and u don't have any sexual partners around u isn't that trouble u are already inviting to ur physical self and mind?

Nice one if the presidency is been constitutionally rotated like this am definitely sure the political tension in nigeria will drastically reduce.

How come var missed that?

dominique:
He won't care since he's not betting with his personal money.

Whose money is he using to bet?