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yaki84:
As U R apolitical, may U remain so till Ur last days.

Anytime political party may want to favour U, may they not remember Ur name or may Ur name be missing from their records.

Keep remaining apolitical but be analysing politics from a standpoint of a core politician

Unfortunately, this post is not for people who cannot control their emotions.

I have stated my opinion and want people who are intelligent to drop their reasoning either for or against. So you are not in the category of my target.

As for the bold, your problem! I don't know the ward or the nearest office of any party in my area. I never voted before and won't do so soon. I don't have a voter's card and I have never applied for one.

You just wasted your energy on irrelevancy

searchlight:
But do you know that he's doing better than you even in detention?

That's why he must remain in detention so that he can continue to do better there

What will happen if he's jailed? You people can chest-beat

wanimo:
You can only detain him, you can't jail him

The same people who made so much noise with enough chest-beating claiming Nigeria will turn upside down if Kanu is arrested. They have warned us they manufacture bombs and missiles. They manufacture rockets.

These are the same people now appealing, persuading and begging.

What happened to their missiles and rockets?

Igbos can make mouth sha

My name is Ola. A patriotic citizen. I neither have affiliation with any political party nor have a candidate

History is often written by those who shout the loudest, not those who labored the longest. As many scramble to paint Nyesom Wike as the villain of the PDP’s 2023 failure, they conveniently forget one uncomfortable truth: without Wike, there might not even be a PDP to talk about today.

Let’s go back to 2015.
That year, the People’s Democratic Party suffered a catastrophic loss. After 16 years in power, the party was defeated by the APC at the national level. For many political players, that was the end. There was no ideology strong enough to keep them. No loyalty to a struggling party. They ran. They defected. They distanced themselves. The PDP was declared dead by many commentators.

But not by Wike.

The Man Who Refused to Flee
While others retreated, Nyesom Wike stood his ground. As a first-time governor in Rivers State, he could have stayed quiet, focused on local governance, and avoided the turbulence of opposition politics. But he didn’t.

He put his personal and political capital on the line. He financed, organized, protected, and mobilized the PDP when it became unpopular to even say the party's name in public. From convention crises to court cases, Wike was the engine room that kept the party functional when its national structures were in disarray.

Anyone who witnessed the court battles over national chairmanship, the attempted takeovers, and the series of factional warfares knows the truth. Without Wike’s resources, resilience, and courage, the PDP might not have survived those storms. The party's National Secretariat could’ve been a ghost house.

The Role of Ayo Fayose and the Gradual Transfer of Burden
Let’s also acknowledge that Wike wasn’t entirely alone in the early years after 2015. Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, another fearless southern PDP stalwart, stood by him. Together, they formed the backbone of the resistance against APC dominance. They were the two voices that roared when the rest of the PDP was whispering in fear.

But by the end of Fayose’s term in 2018, his political strength waned. He no longer had the state apparatus or federal relevance. The torch passed, fully, to Wike. And he carried it alone—for years.

From 2019 to 2022, Wike became not just the soul of the party, but its primary financier, mobilizer, and defender. He hosted meetings, held the ground in Rivers, and made the PDP a household name when other states were lost to APC dominance. Throughout Buhari's 8 years, the only audible voice from the opposition was from Wike

The Irony: Those Who Benefited Turned Against Him
And yet, when it came time for the PDP to choose its flag bearer for 2023, the same party that Wike had rescued—singlehandedly in many ways—refused him the ticket. Worse still, it refused to accommodate his interests or recommendations even after the primaries.

What followed was not betrayal from Wike. What followed was a deep disillusionment, the kind that comes when a man who nurtured a dying structure is told he’s no longer needed. When those who once knelt at your table now slam the door in your face.

Let’s Reframe the Conversation
Wike may be controversial. He may be confrontational. But one thing he is not, is a coward. In the darkest years of the PDP, he was its shield. He turned Port Harcourt into the party’s lifeline. While others sold out, he stood firm. While many were mocking the PDP’s collapse, he rebuilt it, brick by brick.

And now, those who couldn’t bear the weight of opposition are rewriting history—casting Wike as the problem, when for many years, he was the solution.

Give Credit Where It’s Due
You don’t have to agree with everything Wike has done. But if you are telling the story of the PDP between 2015 and 2022, and you leave out his name, you’re not writing history—you’re editing it.

The PDP may have failed in 2023. But it did not die in 2015—because Wike refused to let it.

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shereef19:
Thats not enough

For the current population of the country.

You mean they should not do the exercise?

Sodiq3:
The Igbo Elders Consultative Forum has declared that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration has failed to deliver any tangible development to the Southeast.

The elders warned that, given the current state of affairs, the All Progressives Congress (APC) may struggle to secure even 25 per cent of the votes in the Southeast come 2027.

Secretary General of the forum, Prof. Charles Nwekeaku, made the declaration in an exclusive interview with The Guardian on Monday.

He said the current APC administration has neglected the region's infrastructural and economic needs.

The don was responding to the argument by some Southeast politicians that President Tinubu has done enough for the region to deserve re-election.

For instance, during the 2025 Sallah celebration with the Ebonyi Muslim community in Abakaliki, capital of the state, Minister of Works David Umahi hailed the impact of President Tinubu in the Southeast and the entire country in general

Umahi credited Tinubu with reversing years of federal neglect in the Southeast.

"Before now, many Southeast states had no federal projects. But today, the federal presence is visible across the region. That is true national integration,” Umahi said.

But Nwekeaku dismissed such claims as dishonest and unrepresentative of the people’s sentiment.

The don insisted that in 2027, the Southeast will vote for merit, accountability, and good governance and not party loyalty.

He said: These politicians saying all that represent themselves. They are selfish. They don't represent the people. Now, I ask you, go to southeast. I just came back yesterday. I missed my flight.

"I came back by road. Every 100 meters, police checkpoint or military checkpoint.
Not one kilometer now. I'm saying 100 meters in the southeast. And the road is terrible.

"The road that would take one hour would take you four hours in the southeast. So, tell me the one that the government has reconstructed. Tell me any major project they have done.

"Is it the gas project they are doing? They marginalised the southeast. Nothing in the southeast. Is it the railway? Tell me, what are they doing that warrants these governors to say that the president is doing well? Instead of telling Mr. President the truth

"The igbos will vote for merit, accountability and good governance. If things continue like this I don't think the APC will get 25 per cent in South east come 2027. We are going to retire most of these politicians.

Nwekeaku also criticised politicians defecting to the ruling APC, saying their actions was self-serving and devoid of any genuine interest in the people they claim to represent.

He further criticised the worsening economic conditions under the APC-led government.

The don added: "Why are politicians defecting? Already two or three governors from PDP have defected to APC. Why are they defecting? Were they elected under APC? What are their reasons? Because they failed to put their house in order. And because a number of them have soiled their hands.

"That's why they are trying to escape any form of investigation and that's why they are defecting. It's not that they have any major plans for the people.

"Why are they defecting to APC? I want to ask you. What has the federal government done? What is the exchange rate of the Naira now? About 1,500 and something. If you go to the parallel market, N1,600, N1,000, almost N1,700. That is the exchange rate.

"This has made the Nigerian laborer the cheapest in the world. Whether you are a professor in Nigeria, a graduate assistant abroad, earns by far more than myself and any other professor. They tell you that the governors have more money now.

"The federal government said that they have increased the minimum wage to N70,000. Now, when the minimum wage was N30,000, N8,000 or N7,500 could buy you a bag of rice. Is that not true? Today, what they say they have increased, it cannot buy a bag of rice for you."

https://guardian.ng/news/tinubu-did-nothing-for-southeast-cant-secure-25-vote-igbo-group/

Everything is targeted at the Igbos. Exchange rate is high all over the country. Igbo man say it targeted at them. Minimum wage cannot buy a bag of rice all over the country. Igbo man say it their own marginalization.


Yet they gave 1% vote to the man

helinues:
Put Atiku aside, blame Obaseki in precise more for Wike's over reacting after Pdp primary loss

Honestly, I won't blame Wike much. E get y

seanfer:
I hope the OP will also come and give us his opinion about Atiku from 2017 to 2023 in PDP?
Then we can decide who truly scatter the PDP.

Surely, I will write about this. Can I mention you when I did?

Another one again.

Yet people who can not convincingly mobilize a single person are claiming it is Nigeria versus APC. Ayo Fayose will secure the votes of more than 2000 of his followers to Tinubu in 2027. But you, who your father is not known, claim "it is Nigeria vs. APC." Are you more Nigerian than those people in APC? àbí those members of APC you refer to are from Togo ni?


I just dey laf when I see Haipob families dey chest-beat claiming their cooking something.

Please be patient enough and cook your stone

EponObi:
Who told you Tinubu is banking on your 5% votes next election? I'm sure he already projected 0 votes from your side. You carry 98% of una votes give that fraud and him still end up in 3rd position 🤣 Abeg what more trick can you people pull again?

That aside, Remi is too beautiful, simple and elegant. Without hate, she's the most elegant first lady in Nigeria history. Tinubu carry eye go market 😀

Point of correcrion: Their vote is not up to 5%. It used to be 5% as when Buhari was coming. But presently, unknown gunmen had cut the size to 3%

MichaelSokoto:
APC vs Nigerians in 2027

Those APCs are Ghanaians now. Shallow reasoning

This is just another side of the coin

Mabuggi88:
For more money from him... Everything about Tinubu is Money, you can't reject his offers

No one can reject the offer? That means you should forget about Obi because he will be bought and he won't be able to reject the offer

If na me talk am now, Amakas go begin call me names. Whatever it is bound on earth, it is bound in heaven and vice versa. Tinubu's presidency is bound in heaven.

Green line For Samsung? I no dey do

hisexcellency34:
G5 governors reunite Where is Seyi Makinde?

Lazy yoot didn't read

ericmor:
And they will ask you for bail terms and you will need to settle if you want to leave their custody

No. The court will decide if you must be in custody and not the police. Understand how it works

Macphenson:
Ok At least let him take the Engineer guy from OBJECTV that took him to cleaners.

There is no kind of abracadabra APC cannot perform and nobody takes Reno serious again.

He had given the offer for everyone to join him. If you can't join him, remain silent

Peakdesign23:
No be everybody go marry. The society and family members will come with their own pressure but the bottom line is that it's not by force. Marriage comes with so much responsibilities and if money no dey things might become worse.

Who says marriage is by force? Is there anything that suggests that from what the OP write? If you are not ready to marry, the thread no concern you. It is for those who are interested in marriage. Stick to the point and don't distract us

Benbisco:
My brother, na to look for way resell and run away.

In a sane society, na to call the attention of the police but if you try it in our nation, there is a 90% chance you are a goner because they will say you and your entire generation na criminals.

No! However, you are going to be a prime suspect which is normal. Investigation will begin and you are going to be held many times not because you are guilty but because they will need you in the process of doing the investigation

Betanaija42moro:
It doesn't take anything from you to do a little research, before coming here to type what you don't know

So what hold you from refuting the news on the first thread? Àbí you never do your research that time?

Ikaeniyan0:
The Presidency, on Monday, reacted to the criticism of former Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, describing him as a ‘shallow’ personality who is not well grounded in the issues of economics and governance.

Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, disclosed this in a statement posted via his official X account.

While stating that he was surprised Obi could agree with the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu, especially on fuel subsidy removal and the unification of foreign exchange, Bwala emphasised that it was obvious the former Anambra governor and other opposition figures were simply after taking over power, all the while.

He wrote, “Is anybody watching Peter Obi on Arise TV?

” He agreed with our policy of removal of subsidy and unification of the foreign exchange; he claimed he would have done it better than us in an ‘organised manner’

“He was asked what the ‘organised manner ‘ is.’ He played with words, yet to arrive at agreeing with us.

“Anybody with a rational mind knows these guys are just looking to grab power, but they don’t have any alternative agenda.

“He seems to have very shallow knowledge of economics and governance.

“Remember, this is even an interview anchored by a member of his Obidient movement.

“That’s why you don’t hear ‘I put it to you’ and no barking like a rottweiler; Yet ‘if it didn’t Dey it didn’t Dey.”


On Monday, Obi challenged Tinubu to account for how his administration expended the billions of revenue reportedly saved from the removal of fuel subsidy.

He made the demand when he was featured as a guest on Arise Television.

While admitting that there was nothing wrong with the removal of the controversial petroleum subsidy and floating of the naira, Obi conceded that he would have done the same if he were to be elected president.

The former Anambra governor, however, argued that he would have implemented the policies gradually and in a more ‘organised’ way than the ‘haphazard’ way the Federal Government went about it.

Obi said, “I have consistently maintained that I would have removed the fuel subsidy.

“If you go to my manifesto, it is there and the steps I would have taken in an organised manner.

“There is nothing wrong with the removal of the fuel subsidy.

“What is wrong is the haphazard way in which it was announced and implemented.
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“Since we were told that we removed it because we don’t want to borrow and that the funds will allow for investments in critical infrastructure.

“Billions saved. Where is it? Where is it invested in critical areas of development?”


https://punchng.com/obi-desperate-for-power-ignorant-about-governance-presidency/

Without mincing a word, Obi is shallow, naive, immature and lack experience. It is all over him. He can't even engage well. Reason why his only "go to" TV is Arise where they won't scrutinize him

ogascomax:
There was no home goal. Go to YouTube and watch the interview.

😂😂😂 You see your life? You were trying to let us believe the story on that thread.

Why didn't you refute the claim then? You were busy arguing in favor of the story.

Another own goal

Hello, your write up shows that you have little experience of the reality of life.

Your mum is young and her body must demand for love and touch. It is not her but the body system. Haven't you heard that "we cannot cheat nature"? Unless you prefer her to be having secret affairs.

The best I will advice you is to let her remarry, however, you can suggest or find a suitable man for her outside your village so that all those concerns of yours can be eliminated

😂😂😂😂When you begin to discuss wetin u no know to score a point. E dey always result in own goal.

It is obvious that you are a liar. You lied in the first thread, you lied also in this thread. Thank God I didn't put my mouth in any of your threads.

We are still waiting for episode 3

If this had been Tinubu! Wetin Emekas for don yàn en?

WhizdomXX:
To him, yes.

This is not to him. It is my thinking. I am just seeing a possibility here.

By Ola Ola

My name is Ola. A patriotic Nigerian. I am without any political affiliation. No party, No candidate. Here is my opinion regarding Wike and PDP pre/pro 2023 election.

In politics, ambition wears many faces—some smile in the name of party loyalty, others cloak themselves in the language of reform. But in the case of Nyesom Wike, former Governor of Rivers State and current Minister in President Tinubu’s cabinet, ambition is now a thread that stitches together every major political move he’s made since 2021. To understand Wike’s role in the fall of Uche Secondus as PDP National Chairman is to understand a high-stakes political chess game—one that began with precision and ended in betrayal.
Let’s be honest: Wike didn’t remove Uche Secondus to “save the party.” That explanation, which he has peddled repeatedly, is political lipstick on a bruised narrative. The deeper truth is far more compelling—and far more damning. Wike orchestrated Secondus’s fall to position himself as a southern ally for the 2023 presidential ticket. And when that strategy failed, he turned on the very party he claimed to protect.

Zoning, Ambition, and the Secondus Obstacle
For context, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) operates an informal zoning agreement—a delicate North-South rotation meant to maintain political equilibrium. In 2021, Uche Secondus, a southerner like Wike, held the position of National Chairman. With the 2023 elections on the horizon, the logic of PDP zoning was simple: if the South held the chairmanship, the North would likely claim the presidential ticket.
Wike, however, had other plans. If he wanted to contest for president—or even install a southern candidate—Secondus had to go. Keeping a Southern chairman would automatically zone the ticket to the North, eliminating any Southern aspirant before the race even began.
So, Wike made his move. He engineered the removal of Secondus, replacing him with Iyorchia Ayu, a northerner. This wasn’t about party reform. It was a structural rebalancing to serve a personal goal: make room for a southern candidate, ideally himself.

When the Game Turned
Wike went on to contest the PDP presidential primary in 2022. He lost to Atiku Abubakar—a northerner. From that point on, the mask slipped.
Rather than rally behind Atiku and work for party unity, Wike pivoted to sabotage. He led the infamous G5 Governors, boycotting Atiku’s campaign events. He denied Atiku access to state venues in Rivers. He publicly mocked the PDP leadership and ultimately withheld Rivers State’s electoral support from the PDP—in effect, handing it to Bola Tinubu of the APC.
It’s no coincidence that Tinubu, a southerner, became president—and that Wike, who nominally belonged to an opposition party, ended up in Tinubu’s cabinet.

The Pattern Is the Proof
Wike’s trajectory tells a coherent story:


Stage 2021
Action: Removed Secondus
Underlying Motive: Remove zoning barrier for southern candidacy

Stage: 2022
Action: Contested primaries
Underlying Motive: Personal ambition to be the flag bearer

Stage: Post-2022
Action: Rejected Atiku, crippled PDP
Underlying Motive: Retaliation for losing the ticket

Stage: 2023
Action: Supported Tinubu tacitly
Underlying Motive: Retaliation of losing, Prove his anger, Keep the presidency in the South

Stage: 2024
Action: Accepted APC ministerial role

The political reward for sabotage
This is not the behavior of a typical party person. It’s the profile of a man who is angry —and whose every move makes sense when viewed through the lens of power, not principle.

The Verdict
Wike’s campaign against Uche Secondus was not about saving the PDP from internal crisis. It was about clearing the field. The moment his ambition was blocked, he became the party’s greatest internal threat. The fallout of this betrayal cost the PDP the presidency in 2023.
In truth, Wike did not just remove Secondus. He removed the South’s claim to the PDP flag and then attempted to reinstall it by force. When denied, he helped deliver the presidency to the ruling party to show his anger—and crossed over to enjoy the spoils.

Mabuggi88:
Because you always side the oppressors, Haipob always side the people. The oppressors will always attract selfish people who always look up to people in power whether being oppressed or not. Haipob According to you wants good governance for the people not self-centered like you lots
You understand di pointi now

You say wetin? 🤔