₦airaland Forum

Peter Obi @PeterObi

Elections are not deemed free and fair when a certain group employs the tool of intimidation to ensure that the opposition is silenced, both at the campaigns and at the polls.

Peaceful assembly and unfettered electioneering campaigns are constitutionally guaranteed. Both and other ordered liberties cannot be breached wilfully by security agents.

Recent reports of OBIdients being silently arrested by some security agents is extremely disturbing and condemnable. We must ensure that everyone is given a level playing field in the forthcoming elections, and that no eligible Nigerian, irrespective of ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation is disenfranchised, more so through violence and intimidation.

I call on the Federal and State agencies to remind their operatives on the need to respect civil liberties.

-PO

https://twitter.com/PeterObi/status/1577246803669712897?t=3T51G9JeeHGBnCckOxvOOA&s=19

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A day or 2 ago Chief Bola Tinubu released a video of himself on an exercise bike. I briefly saw the video and I remember thinking, "Deja vu". A lot of things that are happening in this Silly Season (that's what I call the election season) are basically repetitions of things that have happened in previous Silly Seasons and this is one of them. I knew that I had seen him on an exercise bike at another point in time when people said that he was dead.

However, I didn't think much of it.

Then yesterday or this morning, some people claimed that the current video was previously released in 2013. That's actually what made my mind recognise the difference between the 2 videos. You see, the memory that was triggered by the claim is that, in the previous video, Tinubu looked at the camera and smiled or something like that. I couldn't remember exactly what it was, but I remembered that he acknowledged the camera. Whereas, in the recent video, he appeared to be either stiff or tired.

Anyway, I had an event this morning and so I didn't have the time to watch the videos again.

I just watched them now and he is not even wearing the same thing or anything remotely like the same thing.

The 2013 video that they are talking about was posted on this thread (by the way, some people are claiming that Nairaland's admin deleted the thread, but as you can see, the thread is still up).

https://www.nairaland.com/1451042/bola-tinubu-shows-off-exercise

This is the video (you can see that he waved at the camera. It was actually a wave, not a smile)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-8clKxpnFM


And this is the latest video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnajgIVVDB0


It's obvious that they are not the same.

Meanwhile, as I wrote above, some people claim that Nairaland's admin deleted the thread. That's not true, but you can see screenshots of the exchanges below.


(More screenshots and explanations in the next 2 posts).