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No they are jealous of Nigeria turning into Venezuela or Syria.

Mikano boy I sight you.

Zionmdde:
Hope u know the kind of traffic in lagos, if u faint u will most probably die before u get to hospital

Bro you are very wicked

TinubuThief:

O boy, u expect me to read all this things?
Haba mana !!
OBIDATTI though
Thank you

O boy read oh. It is the food for the mind, make grass no grow cover the mind.


Obi/Datti 2023

Peter Obi: From Sam Omatseye to Segun Ayobolu, the dangerous beat goes on


Permit me to tell a little story. It’s about Nwakpuda, the passionate Umuahia village warrior. I’ll abridge it, because it’s a long story. The British colonial masters, in a bid to develop part of then East, had carved out a rail line that passed through his village to Port Harcourt.

But, Nwakpuda, was so passionate that he swore that no train would pass through his father’s land. So, on the day the train was to be test-run, he had heard from the town-criers of the event and the brave warrior he was, he decided to enforce his vow and got ready.

Apparently without further revelation of his plans, lest he be impeded, he sharpened his war cutlass and off he went to the rail track. The train driver saw him from afar as he stood with his cutlass at the ready and continued to blast his horn. But Nwakpuda laughed at the approaching “animal,” quipping derisively - I’ve not even touched you and you’re crying - stood firmly and ready to smash it with his weapon. Of course, the inevitable happened.
He was crushed on the rail track.

But you know what? The white man didn’t allow it to go. Such heroism they thought! So, in the place where Nwakpuda died, they built an epitaph in his recognition. So, Nwakpuda, didn’t die in vain. He was a hero and a legend. That’s the end of the story.

Why did I recall this? Some people in Nigeria today, are playing such a heroic replication of Nwakpuda, the Umuahia legend in trying to stop a moving train with bare hands. Else, how do you situate the huffing and puffing by some political tendencies in the land over the ambition of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) outside what the diminutive - yes, they said he was very short, but powerful - Nwakpuda, tried to do?

I wasn’t there in the first republic. So, I might not situate it correctly to say there has never been anything like it. But I could say so from the second republic that nobody, has ever conduced such a pan-Nigerian movement as the Peter Obi movement has been able to create. Else, if you knew any other Nigerian politician, who has created a similar momentum where followers, across the country, gladly contribute money to print posters, make T-shirts and hold street rallies, let the world know.

All the purveyors of this paradigm shift, he seems to beget, appear to have one message - ENOUGH! Nigeria will no longer be run by vested interests, whose only motive is to pocket the commonwealth, from whence they dish out privileges, like Robin Hood, who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, or closer, back home, the legendary Lawrence Anini, the great armed robber, who after killing and robbing his victims, threw parts of his loot to commoners in the market for them to scramble for and thereby, creating a hero image of himself.

Yes! The resonating message through Obi is quite apparent - Don’t steal on our behalf again. Let us take our destiny in our hands. Let us build a new order. That is their battle-cry. Yet, there are naysayers, swearing that this won’t happen. The train would not pass through their father’s land, they insist. Their weapons, like Nwakpuda’s sharpened cutlass, come in different forms.

You hear that about 5,000 youths were quartered at a luxurious hotel in Abuja for a special training on the use of social media to do battle - the target - Peter Obi.

They want to cut him down in the same way Nwakpuda, wanted to slice the train to pieces with his cutlass. Only this time, unlike the Umuahia hero, who used salt to sharpen his cutlass overnight, the weapons are said to have been sharpened with raw cash - some say N500,000 monthly pay. don’t even try to calculate what it amounts to. It’s chicken feed to the patrons who have procurred them. After all N2.5billion monthly revenue from a state Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), is not moi-moi. And that’s just one aspect.

So, you see all manner of ugly narratives and campaigns of calumny in the social media. It doesn’t matter how infantile or obtuse - they don’t need to be factual or make sense - just write anything and get paid. So, they go to work. Completely for the pay. It doesn’t matter what happens thereafter as long as the pay keeps coming.

Ironically, the same people even those that associate him with the damning imagery - Obituary, turn around to harass for the same offence, even when, like the biblical lamb going to the slaughterhouse, he replies not as much as whimper.

If Obi sneezes, it would be fact-checked to test the quality or decibel of the sound. He farts like any other human being, they’ll ask Google how pungent the smell is. Someone speaks for hours, reeling out tens and scores of figures ad-lib and just one - they go to town with the singsong - he lies! As if lies have assumed a different meaning. Yet, it doesn’t matter that their patrons never even appear in public, let alone attempt what Obi does, even with prepared paper without disgracing themselves.

We all saw how far they could go in asking Edo people to vote out Godwin Obaseki and how Nigerians were asked to tweet on WhatsAPP and how 50million Nigerians recruited into the army would be fed with agbado, corns and cassava in the morning and yams in the evening. That’s what they want to compare.

Even heroes of the pen -professionals whose works had hitherto excited their audience, now fair no better.
They have decided to lower their God-given talents and skills in their attempt to serve as Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) to the dis-ennobling project of keeping Nigerians permanently in Egypt.

For such people, it doesn’t matter whatever happens to their brothers and sisters across the land and even beyond. It doesn’t matter whether Nigeria lives or dies as long as they repay the loans of loyalty which they believe they owe or pave the way for new inroads.

I’ve just finished reading Segun Ayobolu. A fantastic writer any day. Apparently soberer. But here he has fallen into the same meanspirited penchant to serve his master. I had thought that after Sam Omatseye, there would be lessons learnt. But no! It’s a project. So, he travels the same route - throwing his poisoned spear, not only at Peter Obi, but the Igbo - because, to him and his possible sponsors, outside the 2023 election, there will be no Nigeria again.

Taking off from where Sam stopped, he begins to trumpet and wrap Obi’s ambition into the straightjacket of the Igbo quest to produce the President of Nigeria. Like it is such an anathema. Now, what if it were so? Why not not if not? Like any other part of Nigeria, Ndigbo have not hidden their desire to that ambition.

The argument has already been made that it needs no further stretching. Even Ayo Adebanjo, the President of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, who ought to represent all the Yoruba people, is sold to that argument that the Igbo should be allowed to take the job. If by virtue of rotation, the governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), decided to zone the position to the South, why not allow the South East to take the position? Simple argument!

But, my colleague, Segun doesn’t see the merit - clinging to the convenient argument of democracy as in numbers, an argument he handily ignored when the Southern governors first pitched for the nation’s number one job and thereafter, South West politicians. If democracy as in numbers didn’t count then, it had to count when the Igbo make the same pitch. Well, because it’s politics, double-speak and hypocrisy is allowed.

But then, Obi even disowns that route. He tells anyone that cares to listen that he doesn’t want anyone to vote for him because he’s Igbo. He wants to be seen as a Nigerian President and not an Igbo President. Of course that is conveniently ignored. He must be cloaked with the ethnic garb.

Not satisfied, Ayobolu moves from there to bespatter him with the paintbrush of IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra), which has become the most dangerous group in Nigeria more than Boko Haram, Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) and bandits put together.

But he conveniently forgets to mention that there are also ethnic Yoruba groups, agitating self-government, such as O’odua Nation. He forgets that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wears the same garb as Sunday Igboho. No, Obi’s ambition is fired by IPOB, while the ambition of his patron, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a Nigerian project.

He conveniently forgets that the alter ego of Biafra, the main symbol of that effort, the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, actually ran for the same position Obi is seeking today, without as much as passive interest by Ndigbo, not to talk about Nigerians.

But what do you say, when disinformation becomes the strategy? Keep shouting IPOB and sooner or later, the tag will stick. Unfortunately, very few seem to be listening.

Thus, the seeming exasperation and change of tactics. Go after Obi’s supporters - depict them as dangerous - hang anything negative on their necks and make Obi bear the consequences. How ingenious!

Yet, Obi’s supporters are not on the ballot. Obi had even come out publicly to admonish his supporters to keep it clean and not insult anyone. But no! That’s not enough! He must pay the ultimate price of having his neck in the guillotine.

Come to think of it, what do you say of angry youths, whose father’s today was eaten yesterday, beholding their future being eaten today by vested interests? Shouldn’t they be sufficiently angry on their own and go against the culprit(s)?

So, when members of the Pyrates Confraternity rendered their frustration in a song, what does the likes of Segun think fired their imagination? How could that be pinned on Obi?

Of course, it is convenient for Segun to travel the road of history and remind his audience about the ingredients of the first coup in the land, in his well-choreographed attempt to open old wounds, by informing his target - the North that it was an Igbo project.

Of course, outside the fact that the people driving Obi’s project are beset by a far more fundamental existential threats right now to continue to dwell in the past, especially when the Northern region is virtually bearing the brunt of bad leadership over the decades, he failed to remind the same audience that the coup plotters, actually wanted to make the late Obafemi Awolowo, a Yoruba man the Prime Minister - at least, that was part of the narrative, attested to by some of the participants who are not Igbo.

Segun also failed to remind his audience that a Yoruba man, Adekunle Fajuyi, sacrificed his own life for an Igbo, Aguiyi Ironsi. He perhaps, conveniently forgets the millions of Ndigbo that have died as a result of the reprisal attacks and the civil war that followed.

Obviously, that’s the path he wants to rekindle in the present generation, even when it appears that, that part of history, is fast receding from the memory of today’s Nigerians.

Just imagine Segun trying to pin the #EndSars protests on the Igbo. Haba! Something as fresh as yesterday!

Despite the comments of Nnamdi Kanu, whose statement went into no issue and made as less impact as the incitement of Adeyinka Grandson for the Yoruba to kill all Igbo in Lagos, could Segun tell the world the identities of those eventually arrested for the acts of destruction?

How many Igbo were found among those who invaded the palace of the Oba of Lagos, including those who stole his foreign currencies, swam in his pool and even wore his royal attires. How many?

Another point he laboured to make was to impute the oft-trumpeted line that Ndigbo got the meat during the government of Goodluck Jonathan, while the Yoruba were left with the skeleton.

Well, the jury is out on that, my brother. The only thing that happened was that for the first time, it appeared that Ndigbo were given a pride of place in the affairs of the country as major stakeholders. That’s what the naysayers couldn’t bear to see.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala did not come into government during Jonathan’s time. It was President Olusegun Obasajo that discovered her. Jonathan only continued where the former President stopped, even though with a bigger mandate, because the reward for good job is more work.

Under Obasanjo, an Igbo man was the Senate President - the third Nigerian citizen. But they lost that position under Jonathan. They never headed any arm of government till date.

So, which special favour did the Igbo enjoy that Yoruba didn’t get? Even the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) position, which an Igbo man held then, was taken away when the din became so deafening and it appeared that the heavens would fall.

Please Segun, tell us how Mulikat Akande lost the position of Speaker of House of Representatives.
Was it Jonathan or your patron that blocked it? I’m sure, now the entire South East, one of the legs of the Nigerian tripod has been stripped of everything, Segun would be happy. That’s the position he wants Ndigbo to maintain for there to be peace. That’s the only way they won’t be seen as troublemakers.

Yes, I’m one of those who lay claims to Lagos. I wish to be identified as a Lagos boy than Anambra, the same way a Yoruba from Ogbomoso or Iragbiji, ought to claim Coal City boy, if he were born in Enugu and grew up there. I couldn’t be happier watching Ademola Adeleke, the governor-elect of Osun State, speaking undiluted Igbo the other day.

I want to see the day a Yoruba man would pick up the ticket of a political party and contest for governorship of Anambra State, where I come from, just like I know it would happen in Lagos, one day, as was the case when an Hausa became the first Mayor of Enugu.

That may be years after my bones and those of Segun must have become dust. That’s the Nigerian I want to be. I say so, proudly. I don’t want to hear anyone telling me about Lagos giving me “privileges” or “accommodating” me. Sounds so archaic, primitive and unproductive.

In fact it is new in the Lagos I know.

Yes, as a student of Awori College Ojo, I got all the privileges like Lanre my classmate - free books (exercise and textbooks), pencils, erasers, maths sets, free lunch throughout my secondary school under the late Lateef Jakande, without anyone threatening my parents that they must vote for him or leave Lagos.

Between Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Shehu Shagari, people chose whom to vote freely.

Nobody ever told the Igbo that it was not “respecting the people that accommodated them” by not voting Awo or Jakande.

I saw Igbo people win Jakande houses in Lagos, where many of them live till date. What’s this strange politics of either you vote for a particular candidate or be pushed into the lagoon or respecting the culture of the people? In Nigeria? Haba!

Segun, did Kemi Badnoch contest for British Prime Minister, one of the powerful jobs in the world, because Yoruba people wanted to take over the United Kingdom? What then is giving you the impetus to restrict Ndigbo from aspiring or voting the candidate of their choice? What would you say if Yoruba in Kano or Akwa Ibom are asked not to vote or support a particular candidate, else they’d be run out of town?

We hear that outside the other measures being put in place, stopping Ndigbo, as has been tried in the past and as seen when some hoodlums tried to stop them from registering with INEC, is part of the game-plan of your patrons to win in 2023.

Well, let’s see how that pans out. But before then, just know that not a single person can tell Ndigbo what to do. Dem neva born the person. Not in Igboland, not anywhere! So, go ahead and incite those who would accede to this strange, but dangerous trend in Lagos. But, remember, whoever strikes a machete on a rock, should be wary of the specks piercing his eyes.

As for Peter Obi. There are thousands, if not millions of Yoruba supporting him, just as there are thousands, if not millions supporting Tinubu, including two well-known South East governors. I’m sure nobody has forgotten the yeoman's job of my brother and friend, Joe Igbokwe is doing in this regard.

So, much as you try to pigeonhole Obi into an ethnic closet, it will fail. Nigerians know better.

“Nowadays, when a man cannot get an erection, or impregnate his wife, he blames it on NADECO.” I think that was Abraham Adesanya, one of the heroes of the June 12 era, who birthed what you and I are enjoying today who made that statement.

I still remember how it came about. It was to the effect that NADECO was blamed for everything including the bombings in Lagos, in the same manner you and your gang are now blaming Ndigbo. You know the outcome, don’t you?!

As a reporter in Enugu then, I not only bore the imprimatur of the much-advertised Lagos-Ibadan axis of the press of that era, I bore and still bear the scars of military koboko and the memories of my police detention. One of them was that by the time I came back from the proscription of The Guardian, my fiance was pregnant and about to wed another man! Go figure!

So, continue. But don’t forget the story of Nwakpuda. If you know, you know!

SUNNY IGBOANUGO

Michelle70:
I also do not want Obi pictures

Do you want Atiku own?

A TALE OF TWO FORMER GOVERNORS



Two men were governors one in Lagos the other in Anambra . Towards the end of their second term, the one in Lagos sent his retirement bill and got his house of assembly to approve what you see below as his yearly pension.

1. 300% annual salary as severance package as approved by RMAFAC.
2. 100% of annual basic salary of incumbent gov as salary for LIFE even after leaving office.
3. 6 new cars every 3 years
4. A new house in Lagos, minimum 5 bedroom
5. A new house in Abuja or any other location, minimum 5 bedroom.
6. Free medical care for him and members of his family for life.
7. Entitled to cooks, stewards, Gardners, and domestic staffs, all pensionable.
8. 300% of his annual basic salary as governor every 2 years as furniture allowance
9. 100% of annual basic salary as governor as his house maintenance allowance
10. Two DSS officers, 1 female officer for his wife and eight policemen to guard him.
11. 25% of his annual basic salary for personal assistants.
12. 30% of his annual basic salary for car maintenance .
13. 20% of his annual basic salary as utilities maintenance.
14. Pensionable drivers, no limits to the number.

This is apart from what he gets as a percentage of collections from Alpha Beta for tax collections for Lagos State and the total control he has over the governor and the treasury.

*But See what the other collects from Anambra State since leaving office as governor*:

1. No gratuity
2. No pensions
3. No houses
4. No cars
5. No allowances of any kind
6. No maintenances of any kind.
7. No personal assistants paid by the state.
8. No domestic staffs paid by the state.
9. No aids sponsored by the state.
10. Not even pure water.
11. No shishi from the State.

Now the 2 men want to be president.

Nigeria shall rise again

I wish to drop these again here

I wish to drop these here also

Lies and propagandas. APC we know una way.

brightonos24:
Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSvuEIqP3EY

2023:MR CHIMA denounces Obidients movement for alleged importing of people from neighboring states to stage one million man march in Imo state.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/ChhkAI3DlVw/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Ahh Na this Hope Uzodinma Boy. Who doesn't know him in Owerri.

APC and propagandas. una no dey tire.

You for stop the rally na

Evil and Demonic Party APC. The most corrupt party on earth

OkutaNla:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMABxnEu8I

In the end, the truth will always prevail over lies. E be like say everything about Peter Obi movement na sakamaje.


Mynd44
Lalasticlala
Seun

Ahh Na this Hope Uzodinma Boy. Who doesn't know him in Owerri.

APC and propagandas

Nigeria shall rise again.

Obi/ Datti 2023

Herdsmen:
Oga Na obi did the surgery

Oga Na Obi built the hospital?

If going by the misinformation on the nation as of 15 years ago..

The. We believe for everything great thing that happened in Lagos state .. Na Tinubu cos am.. since 99 to date.. Yoruba are right when they say Tinubu build lAgos from scratch

Bro go learn propaganda .. you need an

Power to the people
North 2023

Bro grow up na. This election will come and go oh but posterity and karma will be waiting.

Highest Atiku will be paying for writing this bunkum up and down nairaland is N50K/ month until Feb 2023.

Think about you future and that of your children

God bless you.

Its as simple as ABC

Owopariola001:
Why are you posting Ojukwu University? Was Obi the one that established it?

Don't mix things up. List his achievements to the state.

Who built more than 50% of the infrastructure the school has today?.

Mark twain below summarized it all

Giidgiddy:
Why are you posting a Governor's day to day activities as achievement? Was he doing Anambra any favor for attending events?
Post his projects, give a name of something he did that's still visible in Anambra, or that the Anambra people still feel in their lives... I hate that its people like you that people will use to judge the rest of the Igbos because you chose to support mediocrity

Mark Twain summarized it well below.

In health.

Peter Obi everywhere chai !!!!!

A good market/product sells



Obi's achievement videos


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8Aw9QREGk


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



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8mlDohS0M




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



https://www.nairaland.com/7178079/peter-obis-achievements-awards-education

https://www.nairaland.com/7178079/peter-obis-achievements-awards-education

Tinubu corn roasters, Peter Obi this. Peter Obi that.


You guys have nothing to campaign with, therefore their campaign slogan is OBI!

APC tell us all what you guys would do differently in 2023 apart from your results below.
Let your candidate come on air himself and tell us what he will do and why we should vote him in. Just 30 minutes on live TV.

DEMONIC EVIL PARTY - APC What is your campaign point FOR 2023 elections?


Don't drink poison because it is being served with your tribal cup

Let's vote competency

#PeterObiForPresident2023

Okealaaye:
Watch how Afghaneasterns will twist the narrative to Tinubu, just because they're toddlers when PDP dragged Tinubu to the Code of Conduct Tribunal but lost big! Take a look at the piece below. No be Fulani write am. Na IPOBian write am:



Gov Obi: In the web of N250 million controversy

July 1, 2009

By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka

APART from the 2008 budget of Anambra State which polarized the state House of Assembly and led to its sharp So, the story of seeing guns and dollars in my cars was all part of the type of politics being played in Anambra State.

Bros easy with your lies and propagandas.

Someone that was a billionaire before he became a governor stealing only 250 million naira and leaving behind 75 Billion naira. Does it sound sane?

The funny thing about this whole story is:

1. In the story Peter Obi was not any where around the place or in the car when the when the so called money was found.

2. In the story, the money was found with one of his political appointee not peter Obi.

3.How does this connect Peter Obi = none.

4.For the past 13 years Nigeria police has been investigating this and up till today no single evidence, non single arrest and nobody has been charged to court.

EFCC,ICPC, POLICE and NFIU have searched and searched for 8 plus years now and found nothing on him. No evidence, no arrest, no appearance, no charge, no indictment and no conviction.unlike the grand Agbado Bishop/druggie.

Conclusion: APC has nothing on Peter Obi. Nothing at all

naijapips04:
In your zombidient mind, I support Tinubu? Whatever makes you sleep well at night.

Ok. collect your own.

What is APC's campaign focal point for 2023 elections


The EVIL DEMONIC PARTY APC has no substance to campaign on come 2023.

Op may God have mercy on you.

For those who cares to know the truth

https://www.nairaland.com/7290961/unrelated-pictures-used-falsely-depict

I can remember in 2011, Obi was featured in a Radio Nigeria program called Radio Link.

(... mind you, PO then, was the only governor that had courage to come on that program because it's open to the public to call-in)

There in the program, someone called to ask Obi if it's true that he chased Northerners away...

Obi replied him and said, do you have a Northern brother in my state?
The guy said NO.

Obi said okay...

Why I asked is, I wanted you to call your brother now and ask him if I drove him away.

Then Obi said, if you know any Northerner that has a brother in Anambra, or that's living in Anambra, please call and ask him if I drove them away.

He later told the guy, I gave the Northerners a very good place which their leaders came to thank me for it.

In conclusion he told the guy, I will appreciate if you can come down to Anambra and see for yourself.

The guy appreciated him and ended the call...


See, don't believe propaganda... If you're not sure of anything don't disseminate it.

On Obi mandate I and my family stands.

PS:
No matter who becomes the president of Nigeria, I will still make more money.

Before we tell you that OBI is better, it's for a purpose.