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But Igbos are still likely to become President in 2023.

God bless all good Igbos.

Peter Obi

This one's brain is setting.

Thank God o.


SE for President.

A Southerner will become President. The last two days has settled it, and indeed a South-Easterner.

Thanks to those who were resilient.




God bless all active fighters for right things in this country. All.

Midastorch:
Yes I'm Yoruba, but if I have to pick anyone between Obii and Ayim, I will pick Obi...Obi tried his best for Anambra, atleast he fixed the upper Iweka road a very strategic road in one of the commercial cities in the East....And he did it till some part of Enigu- Onitsha expressway....Now What did Anyom Pius Anyom did in Ebonyi and the SE in general when he was Senate president As at the time he was SGF 70% of communities in Ebonyi state doesn't have light......

You know what, you are right. You have a perfect point.

We will keep praying daily. May God grant us the best at the Primaries.

One thing I learned with time, anything can happen. Whosoever (Southern, preferrably SE) clinches PDP ticket will be assumed the best. Let's not pray for someone to clinch the ticket, but for God to mercifully grant us the best.

"Pray the Lord of the vineyard that he may send labourers into his harvest."

Might be good but time is ticking. With Pius' recent Arise TV Interview, I just saw him as a three-quarter bread better than none.


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

Good thing is that he is truly a three-quarter bread better than none. His worse case scenario can be imagined. Briefly I think he can Preside.

nzeobi:
I think we should interview both of them to know their plans before making a choice and op mind you the money used to build that airport and the flyovers that Willie is celebrating today was part of the savings Left by Peter Obi

1. Only Pius Anyim has so far declared. Technically, only one Igbo has shown interest in the Presidential election as yet, Pius Anyim of Ebonyi State. Peter Obi has never declared interest. He just uploaded a CV.

2. Pius' antecedents speak better. It is hard to bring out an impressionable list of Peter Obi's achievements as Governor. Under him poverty rate rose from 20% to 68%, NBS (see link below). Pius on the other hand has been said to have stabilize the Senate, kept an under N35bn annual NASS budget, and called on Yar'adua very early on (January 2010) to hand over power to Jonathan due to incapacitation when many others were mute silent (possibly fooling themselves about cabal!!)

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Peter Obi has "said" a lot on development but his antecedents do not equally show as much. It is not by Channels TV The Platform speeches. What did his tenure do?

His Tenure
i. Peter Obi left Anambra IGR at a paltry N500m/mo, a figure which William Obiano rapidly rose to N1.3bn monthly in a year and N2.4bn/mo as of 2020.


ii. During Peter Obi's tenure Anambra's poverty rapidly rose from 20% in 2004 (Nigeria's lowest) to a whopping 68% in 2010,

something Soludo himself took note of:

https://www.nairaland.com/4907693/soludo-takes-swipe-peter-obi

iii. Peter Obi's lack of capital projects and the rejection of the Local Government system are equally worrisome.
He spoke of Anambra Cargo airport project for 8 years but never started anything. It was Obiano that started and competed it in 15 months.

He created a Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, thereby effeminating the autonomous Local Government system and preventing them from self-operating according to mandate. The Govt through the State Assembly also went to allocate itself Market management functions something that is Constitutionally designated to the Local Government system by the 1999 Constitution.


3. Pius has shown more confidence in his believed capacity to govern Nigeria than Peter Obi.


"A man that cannot declare 12 months to the election is obviously not serious and it perhaps shows a doubt in his own ability to rule Nigeria."

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If you really want Nigeria to change, you will seek the PDP ticket for obvious reasons and not sit and say you will campaign only after some mysterious stakeholders "zone it to your South or leave it open for all." When you know that one seeking to reform the country should be able to fight for justice and equity at all levels including the justice of having SE rule.

Anyim has said he is in, zoning or no zoning!

Part of the attributes of Presidential ability is to spearhead the efforts to zone the Party Presidential office to the South, and indeed to the South East, in a spirit equity.

[b]A person desiring to change the country should be capable of reforming and handling the party, and preventing the country from being toppled over into one bad religious direction or national orientation by the long occupation of its top office by persons of one religion or dissimilar tribe. A eventuality that is a No-No and must be actively prevented.

ZONING IS A THING THAT IS ENSHRINED IN THE NIGERIA's and PDP'S OWN CONSTITUTION, with PDP stating that: "THERE SHALL BE ROTATION OF LEADERSHIP POSITIONS BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH GEOPOLITICAL ZONES EVERY TERM." Something Pius himself has publicly re-ecoed.

At this rate Nigeria needs to concentrate on how it can move at least a step daily ahead. And it needs to decide fast on how sure to do this, with national inclusiveness and all round stability and happiness, and avoid being deluded by unprecise and deluded campaigns as of the social media influencers in the run up to 2019.


Don't tell people to avoid APC. Tell them who exactly they should vote for rather: Pius Anyim of Ivo LG, Ebonyi State; former Senate President (2000-2003) and SGF (2011-2015):

who in [b]January 2010, led a deligation of 41 other Nigerians to ask Yar'adua to transfer to the National Assembly, a letter of transfer of power to GEJ his then deputy on the ground of Presidential incapacitation[/b] (an active and not passive citizenry move; getting desires achieved).

rather than sit at home and be shouting "the fulani caballll" ; "you know the problem of Nigeria is that" (a stupid beer parlour talk).[/b]


4. Pius can be judged more by what he has done than by speeches. He believes in offering himself to do what he thinks he can.

5. Pius has demonstrated knowledge of Nigeria's and PDP's Constitution, something that should be more valuable to the Nigerian electorate and it's interests giving Buhari's many blunders and sanctimonious evils.


Pius might not be the best, but has clearly shown himself self-reviewed and sufficiently prepared.

Pius Anyim.

Wike's recent statement against Raymond Dokpesi saying "Why will he say PDP is not zoning to SE? When we zone to South we will tell Nigerians soon where we are microzoning it to" shows he has settled in his mind for an Igbo Presidency.

Only one Igbo has been serious and capable, Anyim Pius Anyim.

Eastlink:
Sure. The unseen stakeholders of Nigeria have already made that decision. An Igbo man is the President in waiting come 2023. Those who have studied Nigeria since the return of democracy already know this. Who that person is nobody knows.

Yes.

And the south should rezone it to the South-East.

alhassanyusuf29:
What happens if Notherners vote only a northerner?

They can if they care. Let us see whether it will match against Southern might.

Don't forget Benue, Southern Kogi, 60% Nawarawa, Plateau, Taraba... are all South and will perpetually vote South. (except you bring out an idiot)

(GEJ got 8M votes in the "North" in 2011).

Let us see who determines his neighbour's future. The grace of God on every Southerner. St. Michael on every Southerner.

Our Lady of Southerners, pray for us.

Penguin2:
Stop calling mynd44

What happened to southerners voting for a southerner in 2015?

Or you were to tied to Tinubu apron to see that Jonathan is a southerner?

In 2023, we are voting whoever we choose; be him southerner or northerner, it’s nobody’s business.

Buhari won bc Southerners (South West) voted him for the first time in 2015!!!!


Prior to that he had no hope.


Southern GEJ beat him with Southern might in 2011.


So Southerners didn't vote a Southerner in 2015.

No Southerner Should Vote A Northerner in 2023

Or ever mention him during electioneering on Social Media.




Let of see how these people will win on their own and if they and not us own Nigeria. Let everything be proven.


Since some think the "North owns", allow that North to prove its ownership kobo against kobo.

Let South vote for only South with the same obstinacy North votes only North and let us see once who wins and has the numbers.

(Don't forget 8M persons voted GEJ in 2011).


You are born to be the head and not the tail: that is the Will of God. God has not desired you to be handicapped or indigent in your own nation.


Better to lose backing and voting your Southern blood on election day, that to cajole now under a political lie that North owns you and lose before proof. If North owns you, why not prove it? If they own you how did a Southerner become President in 1999? Why not repeat the same formula since it will lead to another Southerner?

St. Michael be with everyone in this country. You are born to be the head, not the tail.


Prov 12:24: "The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful shall be under tribute."

You should not be under tribute. Obey the will of God and be valiant. And you shall be the head and not the tail. Allow the liars to their lies till election day.

South 2023, And this is the will of God.

OP to tell you the truth, you didn't lie. Under careful scrutiny Peter Obi may land in prison. Obiano is twice him that I know. Airport and IGR for example.

[quote author=wwwihy post=109821537]TO realize his ambition of being the presidential candidate of a political party in the 2019 general elections, the immediate past Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has been sounding sanctimonious. The sanctimoniousness is most pronounced in the area of management of public resources. The magic of it all is that some Nigerians take him seriously except those of us in Anambra State. He was our governor for eight years, so we know what to believe.

Take his management of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). Despite being in office when the national economy was booming because crude oil was selling for as much as 147 per barrel and Nigeria was exporting some 2.4 million barrels per day, the Peter Obi administration never announced that it received more than N400 million monthly. Note that this was when states like Cross River which had no important markets or businesses were generating N600 million a month (the manufacturing firms in the Calabar Free Trade Zone don’t pay taxes to the state government).

Immediately Willie Obiano became governor, the Anambra State Government announced that IGR had jumped from a miserable N400 million to an unbelievable N1.3bn per month. Governor Obiano was then emboldened to announce a 15% increase in the salaries of all government employees, including the 7,000 people that Obi employed just as he was departing. Obiano even went a step further to announce that he would increase the salaries across board again if the IGR moved to N2 billion monthly. The IGR was moving above N1.4bn when Nigeria officially entered economic recession. Yet, Anambra’s IGR has not been less than N1.2 billion per month since Governor Obiano took over leadership.

It is no surprise that states like Kogi have been sending high-powered delegations to Anambra State to understudy how Governor Obiano raised internal revenue by over 300% on assumption of office and has been managing the state’s resources most prudently. In terms of rate of development, Lagos is probably the only state which rivals Anambra State, but not in security, agriculture and education, as one analyst observed recently. While the recession has made most states unable to pay salaries, gratuities and pensions, meeting such financial obligations is taken for granted in Anambra State. Economic activity is here at an all-time high, despite the national recession.

It is usual for analysts to ascribe the good economic times in Anambra State to Governor Obiano’s solid academic and professional training in accounting, banking, auditing and general management. After all, he is not only a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) but also Patron of the Institute. He is also a chartered auditor. True, Obiano’s strong economic and accounting background has been beneficial to Anambra State. But the background alone does not explain why the state’s IGR skyrocketed from a paltry N400m to N1.4 billion monthly no sooner than he took over.

Obiano merely decided to block numerous leakages deliberately put in place in Anambra State’s economic system. He started with IGR. Take management of markets. As everyone knows, Anambra people are born entrepreneurs. Commerce is at the centre of their individual and collective existence. Markets of various sizes are ubiquitous in every city, town, village and hamlet in the state. Like the Jews, the people ingeniously turn every little available space into a market, and before you know it they have become tycoons. Find out how Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis and Chidi Anyaegbu of Chisco Motors began.

I am sorry to report that during the Obi administration, markets, the most important internal source of revenue for the government and people of Anambra State, were toyed with, to put it euphemistically. Peter Obi handed over the markets to his uncle to superintend. The result was that under Governor Obi’s leadership for a whole eight years, the state could not declare more than N400 million as IGR for even a month at a time of economic boom.


It was not just all the markets in Anambra State that Peter Obi handed over to his uncle to superintend. He also handed over to him all the motor parks in the state. As you must have known, NdiAnambra excel in motor transport business. It has been so right from the time of Sir Phillip Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the father of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, General of the People’s Army and Patron Saint of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Proprietors of Ekene Dili Chukwu, Chisco Motors, The Young Shall Grow Motors, GUO Transport, Eddyson Motors, Izuchukwu Motors, Eekeson Motors, etc, are all from Anambra State. And they all have big parks in the state. There are other numerous parks by those who run smaller transport businesses. Was Peter Obi naïve to make his uncle the person to collect IGR from all markets but also all the motor parks in the state?

Let us cite another example. Ex-governor Obi made a show of how he developed an integrated development scheme called ANIDS, for short. One of the ANIDS success symbols is the Anambra State Transport Company (TRACAS), whose numerous commercial buses and minivans traverse the country daily. The government invested N300 million in TRACAS. But as Obi was leaving office three and a half years ago, TRACAS was declared a private venture and handed over to a private company! ANIDS did not pay even one kobo to the state government for the eight years Obi was our governor! Does anybody still wonder why Anambra’s IGR was never above a mere N400 million during Obi’s leadership?

We have carefully avoided mentioning how the police in Lagos under Marvel Akpoyibo arrested on Sunday, June 1, 2009, an Anambra State Government vehicle with N250 million raw cash at 7 Aerodrome Street in Apapa, the corporate headquarters of Obi’s companies. We have also carefully overlooked the demand for a refund of N7 billion as expenses purportedly incurred on Anambra’s governorship election four years ago, which is the genesis of the current fight between godfather and godson. Godson wonders if there will still be money for workers’ salaries and for building infrastructure, etc, if one person alone receives N7 billion. We have also carefully avoided talking about Obi’s claim last May at a public lecture in Lagos of wearing only one watch for 13 years, only for the media to publish photographs of him wearing several watches in just one year.

It is befuddling how our former governor Obi insists, without any sense of embarrassment, that he is the only living saint in Nigeria and needs only formal canonization in his lifetime. NdiAnambra are no longer amused by such theatricals. Jesus Christ used strong language to refer to the Pharisees because of their hypocrisy, calling them “you brood of vipers” (Matthew 12: 34). Saint Peter Gregory Obi is enjoined to meditate on this biblical line.

Okolie, a sociologist and indigene of Anambra State, is a businessman in Lagos.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/anambra-igr-between-obi-and-obiano/[/quote]

You people should listen to OP no matter how it may blindly pain you.

Obiano has been twice the Governor Peter Obi ever attempted .

Even the IGR is currently at N2.4bn monthly as of 2020.


Pius Anyim for President. Peter Obi should first go and settle with justice. And to think he did nothing with Awkuzu stories.

But I think he is a better man currently, and especially this year; years after leaving office and praying the Rosary in quietness. I think.

May God grant us the best Igbo in 2023. But may nobody with capital ineligibilities get anywhere near that office or even the campaign.

KingOfBoyz1:
My uncle actually settled my kid bro with 300k after 11yrs of motor parts apprenticeship.. I nearly booked a flight back to fight that fool. But I remember what my dad once told me. He should Use the money and start something.. Thank God for today, we all supported him and now this same uncle can't even talk when my kid bro money is talking..
So when I see people angry that they were not settled well,I jus tell them to move on. God is always watching. Use that 100k and start something. Don't spoil anything.. Don't waste time. It will surely be fine

I have a similar story on this. You are absolutely right.

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State IGR for the year 2020 were as follows:

1. Lagos: N418.99bn
2. Rivers: N117.19bn
3. FCT: N92.05bn
4. Delta: N59.732bn
5. Kaduna: N50.768bn
6. Ogun: N50.749bn

7. Oyo: N38.04bn
8. Kano: N31.89bn
9. Akwa Ibom: N30.689bn
10. Anambra: N28.009bn
11. Edo: N27.184bn
12. Ondo: N24.848bn
13. Enugu: N23.650bn
14. Osun: 19.668bn
15. Kwara: 19.604bn
16. Plateau: N19.122bn

17. Zamfara: N18.499bn
18. Kogi: N17.357bn
19. Imo: N17.081bn
20. Cross River: N16.183bn
21. Abia: N14.376bn
22. Kebbi: N13.778bn
23. Ebonyi: N13.591bn
24. Bauchi: N12.502bn
25. Narasawa: N12.476bn
26. Bayelsa: N12.180bn
27. Sokoto: N11.796bn
28. Borno: N11.578bn
29. Katsina: N11.399bn

30. Niger: N10.524bn
31. Benue: N10.463bn
32. Ekiti: N8.716bn
33. Jigawa: N8.667bn
34. Gombe: N8.537bn
35. Adamawa: N8.329bn
36. Taraba: N8.114bn
37. Yobe: N7.779bn

Total: N1.31tr (2020) ; 1.5% drop.
(2019: N1.33tr)

Source: National Bureau of Statistics


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/455550-states-fct-generate-n1-31-trillion-as-igr-in-2020-nbs.html

He cares he runs or not the next Presidency is for Igbos.

Pius Anyim for President
Peter Obi for President



God punish all others.

Waiting on outcome of PDP primaries and Ohaneze framework. Better for Igbos to try and lose (God forbid it) than to sit down and shout "North." Which North?

Anambra had the 10th largest IGR in 2020 with N28.009bn ahead of Edo State (N27.184bn) and just behind oil rich Akwa Ibom (N30.698bn)
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/455550-states-fct-generate-n1-31-trillion-as-igr-in-2020-nbs.html

JosephXavier:
In as much as Willie Obiano has done so much in building that Anambra airport and this ICC, I believe he under performed in Anambra using what Umahi is doing at Ebonyi a yardstick

Anambra has more IGR and their federal allocation is higher and still boasts of attracting more investments both from its indigenes who are being urged to invest at home and other foreign investors

It was a big disgrace to find out that the state's IGR is not even in the top 10 in Nigeria

Hence, the incoming governor Soludo has a lot up his sleeve already to take Anambra where it rightly belongs in terms of boosting the state's economy and IGR

I have seen your line of thoughts. You have spoken truly.

mrvitalis:
Peter obi if he said that just lost a supporter ...no to socialist again in Nigeria

Every one should pay tax ...even if it's #100..even if it's #5 let them pay ....#5 times 200 million is 1 billion

If I am president first things first is open a free portal ...every business must be registered and owners data taken ...from grandnut seller to hawker to dangote ...every single business must be registered for free

If u do business without registration u would be charged to work on government farm for 6 months or pay a fine of 10 million

Every business must be taxed ...hotels , eateries , restaurants will taxed a sales tax of 20% ... clubs a sales tax of 35% ( state it was generated keeps 60% gives federal 40% ,)

Every primary and secondary school with school fees over 50k a term would be taxed 20% education tax , above 150k they would be taxed 40%
Universities with school fees above 500k would be taxed 20% ...above 2 million 30%
Those who schooled abroad would be required to pay a tax of $10,000 dollars before NYSC

Every keke owner would pay 50k road tax , Salon cars 150k road tax , commercial buses and vans 150k road tax, trucks 250k road tax and trailers 400k road tax ( state of registration keeps 60%,)

Imported clothes 30% tax

For every expatriate u employ ...u would pay 100% of his take home pay as tax

Etc

There is no how u can't generate $50 billion a year if u tax effectively

OnyeObodo:
But this man has a lot of explaining to do. Under him, so many things went critically bad in Anambra including roads, schools and infrastructures.

Anambra generates a whole lot from Recenues and collections.

But a whole lot of it was unaccounted for.

He did great though giving Anambra an international airport. That is his Landmark legacy. Including this ICC.

Obiano built a lot of roads especially those internal ones off the mainstream such as in my village (and in every Community) and in Awka the capital (he built a lot of networks in Awka).

He practically built a road per community under the "Choose Your Project Scheme" for the 180 Communities using 30bn in about 2-3 years.

Obiano rose Anambra IGR from 6bn under Obi to close to 30bn/annum today.

Obiano has really done well especially in some key necessary things especially in this his second tenure.


God grant him the fame he deserves. Some just don't like him bc of dna mismatch or bc he hasn't sufficiently advertised his works to them.


A man that can build an airport in 15 months should be commended. May God help him fill up the areas he might have yet left unnoticed. I don't want him to leave with some works undone.

God grace Igbos.

CXLVII:
Please specify!

President of which country?

Nigeria or Biafra?

Nigeria. Biafra people should go and sit down. Buhari is helping us by incarcerating Kanu. He has been causing havoc and distress all over.

People should start preparing themselves for that eventuality under work. A good thing.

We are preparing and strategising for that.

"The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful shall be under tribute." (Prov 12:24) Igbos must rule.



God grace all Igbos.
God grace all good Christians in Nigeria.

God grace Pius Anyim.
God grace Peter Obi.



Don't forget how an Igbo man built an Airport under 15 months or how another changed the Banking sector when handed over the chance. There are many of such type Igbos in the South East. You will never know till they clinch rule. Igbos are the best to rule Nigeria. Igbos must rule, and we are preparing all schemes for that.

Op, you are one of those Nigerians that is fooled with the "North" propaganda.

Igbos will rule from 2023,
and we are planning that and reaching across.


God grace Pius Anyim
God grace Peter Gregory Obi

God grace all Igbos.

Southerners should unite and make sure an Igbo wins the next election.

Many Northerners are angry Buhari failed to islamise Nigeria and want to retain power to keep a rule and establish themselves as a status quo.

North must be kicked out of power immediately. They are very bad if given a pinch of free hand.


Pius Anyim or Peter Obi for President.

Three Hail Marys for Soludo.

Many Hail Marys daily for Pius Anyim.


Pius Anyim for President 2023.

toprealman:
How can you be fronting thos joker for president. We are really backwards in this regards. Let's forget sentiment and go for the best!
So far.....
Tinubu x
Anyim x

Then who?

We are not fronting them because we want to, but those that claim to be more intellectual have not so much as come out.

A wise Nigerian has to secure the best possible in the meantime (like Pius) to avoid another Buhari or spring of unfought killings while paving way for the best.

Some of the 'intellectuals' are slothful. Only Soludo ever came out and fought for office.

An Igbo man will be next President.


Don't you find it bad to even give an old retired corrupt man internet time?


Pius Anyim for President.

Yoruba should go and sit down. One Nigeria means Igbo rules next.

Or you didn't know that is part of One Nigeria? Igbo rules next.

Peter Obi or Pius Anyim.

It's not by shouting Igbos are prepared. Who is the Igbo you are bringing up?

I have already voted Pius Anyim.


"The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful shall be under tribute." (Prov 12:24)

God bless Igbos.