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Kicktaker:
I tell you, worst shall even befall those campaigning and plotting to bring this old terrorist to power to continue their master's work...
#vote Obi and let's get it right for once

Eddygourdo:
Tell that to the tinubu urchins and atiku apologists who fight and bully others daily because we want Nigeria to be better. Ask them why they have refused to promote their candidates but spend time fighting Peter obi and others like him. I used to think like you , till I realised that this is a battle for the strong willed. The people online and offline are paid jobbers with a destiny to continue the suffering and decline of Nigeria. I am Nigerian. I am Nigeria. I am fighting for her good and part of doing so is calling people stupid when they are stupid.

Nigeria needs to change its electoral law. Only people that can pass a mental competence exam should be given a voter card. That way people with good reasoning will move this nation forward though their choices. The current paradigm of everyone allows politicians weaponize poverty against the illiterates. They hand them phones and Internet subscriptions to come online and attack Peter obi

muykem:
I will like you to learn something from this post. You will see that nobody will insult Lamido for this statement but assuming he directed that statement to Peter Obi, you know the rest.

Yamiriflathead:
We cannot handover our country to foreign savages in 2023
Peter obi ipob candidate
His VP Arab candidate

I have written severally here about the fanatical and tyrannical trait among the average Igbo and how they always have this very narrow minded linear perspective on issues and how this arrogating outlook by same igbos comes across as condescending to other people outside their latest crase movement .

The average Igbo man grew up with a village mob mentality specialized in shaming and exiling any one who goes contrary to their superstitious beliefs.

This mob mentality is very well and up across Igbo land as there is no community , village or hamlet without a history of public shaming and exiling of their own kinfolk.

What we are seeing with this Reno petition is part of the Igbo intolerant DNA to contrary opinions and values outside their Alaigbo village mentality.

Ipobs are a very crude backward heartless and wicked people who are the opposite of everything they proclaim to be.

ImDStar:
I hope Atiku would write his name in gold and stepdown for Peter Obi for a better country.

This is not the time to gamble with our future again.

iiifedimma:
In as much as am never one of his church member, what is bad is bad, they shouldn't have beat him. There's no any joy in losing a properties this country is getting worse


What was the need for beating him up? Was that part of the mission? This country can never learn. Was he resisting them from doing their job? Was there any prior order for evaluation? What is all this pls


What soludo did was totally wrong am not against him demolishing his church but ordered his men to humiliates, harassed and beat odumeje up is totally wrong..

FreeStuffsNG:
Hmmm. This article below is a reminder again. Do not outsource your role as a father.


EKWEREMADU: Between Fatherhood and Ambition


I recall having this conversation with my wife during the week when the case of Sen. Ike Ekweremadu came up and I was completely in an incandescent shock that this man actually has a sick daughter yet has been all over the place attending political meetings for his political ambition instead of taking time out from the highly demanding world of politics to sort out his daughter's pressing health needs.


He was all over the place during the PDP  primaries, he lost the PDP gubernatorial primaries for Enugu state then started planning to decamp to APGA, then APC , reportedly taken to APC national Chairman by HE Uzodinma, Imo state Governor, when APC stalwarts in Enugu APC, led by their state APC Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah, outrightly rejected him. 

He eventually lost and , unlike previous election cycles, Senator Ekweremadu is not returning to the Nigerian Senate.He lost on all the political fronts.


Sen. Ike Ekweremadu was all over the place so much that it appeared like he did not follow through on the health and lifestyle choices of his children.


He did not follow through on what I believe is more important than his political ambition; the life of his daughter and a family at the low ebb of the apprehension of losing a child  to kidney failure.


Ike Ekeremadu was so consumed by his political ambition that he had no time and seriousness to do due diligence and background check on the character they got him as a donor for his daughter , I doubt if with his PhD, he even had the time to follow through and read up to ask the right questions from the professionals,  understand the risks and benefits of why it could be better for one member of his family of six to donate to the daughter instead of a stranger and seek help to find out if there are some of the tests which can be done on the stranger here in Nigeria before bundling a total stranger overseas. 


He was so consumed by politics that when the 22-year old donor went rogue and was allegedly scheming behind him to deny his age and report Ike and family to UK police, it probably escaped his detection and intervention soon enough so he can be the first to report to UK police and then return the donor to Nigeria for him to immediately restart the process of getting alternative donor(s) for his ailing daughter whose life was more important to him.


He forgot that he was first a father and husband before becoming a Senator,Deputy Senate President and SSG. 

He forgot that he will finish as a father and husband.


I compared Senator Ekweremadu to Joe Biden and I believe that he could have followed the Biden example. Then in 2015 , US Vice President Biden had a dying son and had the opportunity to contest in his party's primaries to emerge against Trump for the US Presidency but Biden stepped down from that race in order to support his dying son.


At a point, Biden was to sell his family house before Barack Obama intervened and offered to pay for the treatment. Biden's boy made his Dad promise him that no matter what happens, Biden must not give up his life long ambition to be US President, Biden's boy, Beau Biden later died. Biden grieved without the guilt of abandoning his son for his political ambition.


 In 2021, years after his son had passed on , Biden contested and won. There are many Nigerian politicians (and professionals) who will do like Biden but not like Ike.   


Family is so important that we even need the approval of a sick dying one before we place anything above their life


That is the lesson Ike missed and was almost about to lose from both ends as his wife who takes care of the daughter remains in prison until July 7 and now August 4.      


Last two Sundays ago was Father's Day , I really truly hope that fathers used that day to reflect and understand the real responsibility of fatherhood. It is the hardest job for a man but it gives the greatest reward if you do your best at it.


As a father , I have realized that it is not possible to outsource that role of a father and not pay heavy fines.  


May God heal that Ike Ekweremadu's daughter and may God help the Ike Ekweremadu family in this their difficult time. I know it is a difficult place for them. 

May God help all fathers to realise that "your child is your responsibility". 


That you pay all the bills and have a devoted and responsible wife/mother of your child won't still make up for your negligence. 


Your child is your responsibility and not even your ambition can replace what you will miss if you neglect your role in the life of your child. 


This a lesson to all fathers: Do not behave like Senator Ike Ekweremadu who was literally chasing rats around the house when his house was on fire.


May God help us all to succeed and may our children not develop kidney failure. May our labour of love and sacrifice be rewarded in our life time and when we are long gone, Amen.
Sunkanmi Vaughan is a Lagos-based Pharmacist and Author.

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Pagenaija1:
Reserve space

Fahdiga:
Obi will get another popular person to be his running mate. Kwankwaso is not the only politician available. Obi's presidency is what Nigeria needs at the moment.

PresidObi:
Stop spreading fake news. It won't benefit you at all.

PresidObi:
We choose Peter Obi

Full stop

Thank you

NaughtyBrainiac:
This Igbokwe na one sharp guy. He doesn't fight a lost battle unlike many Igbos do.

He uses his head, he's more realistic than sentimental.

Anyone that hopes or believes Peter Obi can be president in this current Nigeria of today is either clueless or very unintelligent.

Mention one strong Northern Politician that has been enthusiastically supporting Peter Obi. On the other hand, check out the several Norther big politicians following Tinubu.


Kwankwaso has told you the truth that Northerners cannot vote Obi and everyone sensible Nigerian knows that.

Igbos need to learn wisdom and strategy. Everything is not Chestbeating! Tinubu had an ambition but the wise man supported Buhari a Northerner first so has to pave way for him when it's his turn.

If you Igbos don't drop your useless Ego, form strategic alliances, you guys might NEVER have an Igbo become president!

Power is expected to return to the South, instead of you and your useless Leaders to strike a deal with Tinubu/APC. Support them now and you guys will produce a president when power returns to the South.

The Alternative you guys have, which I feel will most likely be the case due to your political cluelessness and Chestbeating is that you will continue to hate and abuse Tinubu. Without your 5% support, Tinubu will still become president.

A Northerner becomes president after 8 years

A SouthSoutherner becomes president for another 8 years.

A Northerner again

A Yoruba Man again and it continues like that till you guys decide to have sense!

donaldking10:
MAY YOUR CHILDREN'S BRAIN BE LIKE THE BRAIN OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE YOU ARE SUPPORTING.

MetaPhysical:
Obi that repatriated Ibos from Anambra civil service back to their states, could not unite Ibos....making noise about uniting Nigeria.

How does he hope to unite Nigeria?

Stanislause94:
Fayose’s support if for Peter Obi, take or leave it

thesolutions:
Ok. You are right here too. They are investing in someones production process because they are way incapable of producing anything of value to Nigerians even after becoming a holding company. They have the wealth and human resource whose job is to collect huge amount as salaries without producing anything. This has been the Nigeria you lovers of laziness and thrives in. Why work when someone else can do it while you sit and eat up the proceeds.

And, I never mentioned Obi but since you are right about me supporting him, Let me say it to your knowing. Obi is here. He has lied his way into verifiable proofs and we are so loving it. #GoAndVerify

PrinceOfLagos:
Where was it stated I left PDP for labour party?

I've always been a PDP man and forever will be

thesolutions:
Wow! you know alot about me. NNPC That should have refineries are investing in private refineries. What is their aim if not to consume what the private refineries produced. NNPC is also a holding company and yet all they think about is tax and dividends instead of profits and development.

thesolutions:
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Still thinking consumption instead of Production.

Xfemt:
shot up
I’m Yoruba and I’ll never support your tribal sentiment

The igbos don’t like tinubu and they don’t like buhari
Same Igbos supported obj what did you say
Hypocrites

Bring osinbanjo and see if the igbos wont be divided between Peter obi and osinbanjo


If Peter wasn’t contesting
I rather vote atiku than vote tinubu

And know this
Tinubu will never be president of Nigeria
Know this and know peace

fyneguy:
Oya just post a picture of the school built by Gov Peter Obi

Built2last:
After Rivers Money

Wike might be a tout but Politicians know his money is needed

in 2014 Amaechi Buhari campaign DG Bank rolled Buhari, Donated Rivers state government governors jet and helicopter to convey Buhari across Nigeria for campaign but the drug Lord of Lagos claims he single-handedly made Buhari president.

Fahdiga:
Pls I'm not a tribalist like you. Nigerians are demanding for Peter Obi as our president

AnonPoet:
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https://cddwestafrica.org/fact-check-did-inec-officials-prevent-igbos-from-registering-for-pvc-in-lagos/

agabaI23:
I did not do that. Check my attachment

Did read the article? Did you see anything about the recession? etc

By a billion who had been investing before possibly your mother was born?

Where is the money? It was liquidated through an unknown broker into a private wallet.

Give your company for Tinubu to run not Nigeria