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AdamuKD:

Useless and nonsense Tilinbu with worthless urchins
Una never collect yet. Wait make campaign starts first. Una go cry tire

What does this stale and irrelevant rubbish have to do with what is under discussion? Would it kill you Obi supporters to at least keep quiet other than offering the same old threats and insults?

All of you attacking Reno Omokri here, kindly address one simple question: where is the lie in what he said? He even provided video evidence for his claim. Are you trying to say the video was somehow falsified?

I don't and have never liked Reno Omokri as a person, but I have enough sense to be able to detach my dislike for a messenger from an assessment of the message he delivers. Whatever Omokri's sins at other times, they are not what is at issue here, namely that Peter Obi, a presidential candidate, knowingly chose to spread an inflammatory message to stir up Igbo tribalism, even though he was well aware that the creator of the message was of the same Igbo extraction as himself. Why else would Peter Obi have requested that Legbe's name not be read out, merely the outrageous claims Legbe was making?

Babysho:
There are ports just like there are refineries in Nigeria but we still import fuel lol.
You should know the truth by now brother. It's either those ports are condemned far beyond repair or working at 1% productivity.

Really? It's easy enough to find the truth about a topic which has been rehashed times without number right here on Nairaland.

NPA berths vessel at Onne Port, says complex becoming attractive for container traffic

Onne Sea-port: 20 Things To Know About Nigeria's Best Run Sea Port

Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS.

Vessel Traffic At Calabar Port Increases By 40%

So much, then, for the claims of neglect or low productivity. If importers choose to use the congested Apapa ports over the newer, better-run Onne port, perhaps it might have a little something to do with the fact that most economic activity in Nigeria is located in the SW, whose closest port is Apapa. Importers can do their own math, and it makes little sense for them to import goods through Onne which are destined for buyers in Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan, given how much cheaper sea transport is than by rail or road.

The insistence on seeing a supposed "Yoruba conspiracy" in these indisputable facts is the real issue; why should one expect importers (even Igbo importers) not to make rational economic calculations about what best serves their interests by opting for the ports closest to their primary markets? Even if Onne and Calabar were the world's cheapest and most efficient ports, the extra costs of sending the imported goods all the way to the SW market - which, again, has 68% of all non-oil economic activity - by road or train would more than eat up any port savings. There has to be a comparable consumer market in the SE for imports there to equal those through Apapa, and that isn't something under the control of any Yoruba politician.

Massiveglory:
Tinubu built lagos gang and tinubu blue print gang where at thou?
Show up now or thunder will locate u if you ever come out here again.

Was the Tinubu gang also responsible for the floods that hit Seoul just a month ago? Do you also consider that a city without a blueprint?

https://news.sky.com/story/seoul-floods-at-least-eight-killed-after-record-rainfall-in-south-korean-capital-12669125

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/south-korea-seoul-rain-flooding-b2142521.html

What about NYC's multiple floods last year? Did you see Tinubu's hand or a lack of a blueprint at work there?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XbHGcJqyrM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80nO52Tp5O8

Because as we all know, only cities without blueprints governed by Tinubu can ever fall victim to floods ... Keep deceiving yourselves with your hateful glee over an issue that even the best-planned and run cities in the world struggle to deal with.

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar
Lagos
One hell of a damnnn overrated place

If you should taste that flood water now you will see it is a little bit salty and the only way flood water can be a little bit salty means it is a subsoil from below..

Boom...which means the whole of lagos soon gonna be submerged and everything goes under. Lagos is gonna sink sooner than we thought

But we all know nobody gonna taste flood water in lagos because lagos is a gadamnnn overrated slum full of dirty and shit

So much hate concentrated in a single post, and yet I'm sure it won't take long for you to turn around and start ranting about how Yorubas allegedly have an irrational hatred of Igbos when the topic switches to something else.

PHARMNNAJI:
Its obvious the message was stagged by Tinubu group. They wrote the message then got Obi to expose it while secretly filming the conversation.
This was mean to score a cheap political point as they are trying to do now.

This is not the devastating rejoinder you think it is. Even if your conspiracy theory were true (which it clearly isn't), what does it say about Peter Obi's ability to discern truth from lies that he fell for such a trick? When your defense of your candidate comes down to "Peter Obi was so gullible he was taken in by an obvious lie, which he then chose to propagate without attempting any verification", then you might as well be working for his opposition.

Ddokie:
Election cycles in Nigeria exposes the level of stupidity in a lot of people in this country. Honestly.

If you are not an unfortunately stupid individual, you should be wondering why anyone should be discussing which port is working or which one is not. A man reads a message that has been in circulation for over 2 weeks and you call the man a liar. What exactly did Peter Obi say? And where is the lie?

Kindly prove that you are not unfortunate, stupid, and ultimately dense by answering my questions.

Your intelligence is so low it would be an insult to baboons to call you one. Peter Obi lied, plain and simple. He claimed there were no working ports in the SS, and Reno Omokri correctly exposed Obi's lie for all the world to see. All you've done here is resort to the usual Zombidiot strategy of mixing insults with irrelevant gibberish in a transparent attempt to save face.

plusfield:
Nigerians have already exposed the lying machinery called 'Pastor' Reno Omokiri. We all are seeing who the liars are. I have also been told that the pdp leadership are trying to caution him as his antics and lies have been counter productive to their campaign.

Its obvious that all the political forces of darkness that have been keeping Nigeria in bondage are being rattled by this Peter Obi's candidacy and they have all arisen to fight against this liberation

Enough with all this gibberish and answer a simple question: is Reno Omokri wrong? Is Onne not in the SS? What exactly do you think the "Port" in "Port Harcourt" stands for? Peter Obi just caught telling a lie so brazen even a primary school student should have seen through it, and all you have to offer in response is the garbage-pail full of conspiratorial non-sequiturs you dumped above? Pathetic!

I would love to see the day when you Zombidiots show yourselves able to admit error or at least counter criticisms with facts, instead of spewing insults and incoherent irrelevancies in a laughable effort at saving face. I'm sure you'd resort to the same tactics even if he told you to your face that 2 + 3 = 7.

Okealaaye:
Go and learn how to read between the lines. I'm a Yorubaman like you, and I stand gidigba for The Jagaban's corner. Learn to interpret sarcasm.

Given how often certain groups on here blame Yorubas and other outsiders for everything wrong in their lives, it's hard to tell where serious claims stop and sarcasm starts without a "/s" or other such indicator. The notion that Yorubas are to blame for litter in Abia wouldn't even be the most outrageous one I'd seen in the last month, let alone over the years - just look at all the buffoons lauding the lunatic Uju Anya for blaming Britain's figurehead monarch for alleged "genocide" in a civil war fought in a country which had already been a republic for 4 years when the fighting started, as if Queen Elizabeth II personally forced Ojukwu to go and start something anyone with sense would have realised from the start could only end in disaster.

Okealaaye:
If you give the son of a palm wine tapper a ride in a NASA Space Shuttle to the Moon, he'll still ask for the climbing ropes. If you dress a pig with gold and diamond necklace, it'll certainly do a tumble in the mud with it. These things are congenital, they're in the blood. It only becomes a thing of national concern if a whole Clan (please, forget about 5 percent and mere dot - a Clan is Clan) embraces the culture of wallowing in dirt. These Ijo and Yoruba are very dirty.

So it's "Ijo and Yoruba" busy dumping refuse next to a flyover in the pictures shared by the OP? Were you there to ask the trash dumpers where they came from? And how many "Ijo and Yoruba" are there in the entirety of Abia state anyway?

There is nothing in the world you lot can't blame outsiders for. I bet even if you woke up with hemorrhoids tomorrow, you'd find a way to blame "Aboki", "Ijo", "Yoruba" or even "Tinubu" for your sore backside.

Igbojew:
You don't know this Yorubas,their jealous and envy matter don tire me I swear..................I am that Igbojew

Yes, Yorubas are so "jealous" and "envy" you so much that you spend all your time on Nairaland boasting about how "great" you are and how everybody must "envy" you, even as hardly any of those "jealous" and "envious" Yorubas even care about your pathetic existence. You really need psychiatric help to deal with your schizophrenic paranoia.

castrokins:
A True Citizen Of The World.

Over To You, Jeff Bezos. How Many Languages Can You Speak?

Are you seriously comparing some deranged fringe academic managing to merely recite a few words in 7 languages with a man with the vision, skill, drive and ruthlessness to build the world's largest online retailer in the space of less than 30 years? If you really think the two things are in any way comparable, you are easily impressed indeed. I myself can speak that many languages - and by "speak" I mean more than just repeating a few memorized words in a video - and I don't consider it amongst my own greatest skills, let alone something to be challenging the likes of Jeff Bezos on.

Vympel:
She did nothing wrong...Colonisation might not affect you, but it greatly affect some people...she even mentioned her family in that tweet...so don't criticize her...

How exactly did "colonisation" fail to affect anyone of Nigerian descent? Isn't the entirety of "Nigeria" an artificial creation of the British government?

Let's call a spade a spade: the source of Uju Anya's misplaced rage is the loss of a Biafran war that Ojukwu foolishly chose to instigate, by engaging in the very act of secession he'd arrested Isaac Boro for just months earlier. Furthermore, Ojukwu's move was motivated by greed for Niger-Delta oil and fear that the creation of more states would leave said oil out of his reach, combined with the self-same arrogance being displayed on here by all those who attribute an imaginary generalised "hatred" of Igbos to "envy" at their equally imaginary "superiority". Ojukwu was convinced that he was smarter, braver and and an all-round better soldier than the "Abokis" and supposedly "cowardly" Yorubas, which was why he made his foolish choice despite the glaring disadvantages in manpower and resources he knew his breakaway state would face. The likes of Obasanjo and Adekunle soon taught him otherwise ...

Benitoh:
The woman's anger isn't about Independence or colonialists but the role Britain and her queen played in decimating and massacring defenceless civilians.

They should have stayed neutral and making peace instead of empowering and arming one side

You mean just like the Israelis, the French and the South Africans should have left Ojukwu without arms to fight the Nigerian Army with? Somehow I doubt you'd go along with that ...

War isn't a wrestling match, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the British government supplying the only internationally recognised government of Nigeria with arms to quash a secessionist movement whose leader had himself personally quashed yet another attempt at secession only a few months before. Ojukwu chose to secede rather than engage in further discussion once he saw the prospect of losing access to Niger-Delta oil, even though he was the very man responsible for violently squashing Ijaw secessionism, so by his own lights what he was doing was a criminal act deserving of being nipped in the bud through force.

In any case, all of the above really has no bearing on the reality that the Queen was a mere figurehead with zero involvement in policy-making, so even if Britain really had been in the wrong arming Nigeria, it would still be the height of hateful stupidity to blame Britain's titular monarch for doing so.

DOTian:
It is only agbadorian cockroaches that are mourning the death of their almighty queen amongst her former colonies. That says an awful lot about the mental health of willing slaves. Every other part of the former British empire are genuinely enraged by the genocidal history of that evil empire. But Tinupoos henchemen want us to cry that the queen is dead. The same monarchy that killed millions of Africans in their land and made great efforts to saddle the black color with all sorts of humiliating history ..

And I have always said it here that this kind of "Stockholm syndrome" is cultural. Chinua Achebe mentioned this in his book "There was a country". Certain segments of the Nigerian state are populated by folks who have been browbeaten overtime by their evil rulers, to accept servitude as a normal way of life! You will see them rolling on the floor to greet their overdressed Obas as they get upset with you for questioning such overtly dramatic display of inferiority complex . They wear grand servitude as a badge of honor. Big shame!

These days, they have become proud agents of darkness midwifing evil. They will support all types of dictators in the country because in their land, even before the coming of the white man, monarchical dictatorships reigned surpreme! They are surprised when you call for accountability because shuch words are alien in their default cultural settings.. Who asks the Ooni or the emirs how they run the finances of the traditional stools? Who questions the ordinary humans they have made tingods!?

Thank you for presenting such a perfect example of an Igbo supremacist brimming over with hatred for others while simultaneously wallowing in self-pity about the supposedly undeserved hatred others pay you back in return. It takes something really special to be so completely lacking in introspection.

LienwaltAbel:
I hope you know that I'm Igbo?

Nowhere have I said that every Igbo thinks that way - there are plenty of sensible Igbo people out in the world making their mark without wallowing in self-pitying delusions. It would be utterly ridiculous to assume everyone from a group numbering in the millions thinks the same way.

The harsh reality, however, is that there is a strong tendency amongst certain very loud and aggressive sections of the Igbo population to insist that any and every reversal and tragedy experienced by Igbos throughout Nigerian history has been entirely the fault of some group of hated outsiders or other, and many leading Igbo thinkers have made note of it, so this isn't just one outsider's opinion either. This lack of introspection and unwillingess to accept any responsibility is the motivating factor behind IPOB, and it's clearly what motivates so much of the runaway Igbo tribalism on this forum. What is more, the tendency is usually also accompanied by an unjustified belief in innate Igbo superiority, manifesting itself in the attitude that so many mock on here when they write "Yoruba Amaka" in threads. Needless to say, a loudly stated belief that one is somehow a "master race" - as offensive as it is to all the other "races" who are being told they are "lesser" - is hardly compatible with the conviction that one is and has always been the powerless victim of the evil intentions of others.

In short, I commend you on transcending this incoherent chauvinistic attitude, but it is an undeniable empirical fact that said attitude is commonplace amongst a substantial number of your kinsmen, as exemplified by Uju Anya and all those defending her on here by calling her critics "slaves" and worse, as if buying into the lie that Queen Elizabeth II personally had millions of Igbos killed were a precondition for being a proud and intellectually enlightened African.

LienwaltAbel:
Harold Wilson supported and sponsored the war not her. Can't you people read?

Don't expect logic from their ilk. They are determined to hold a purely titular figure responsible for the consequences of the terrible decisions made by their own conceited and selfish leaders. From the way they're carrying on, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was Queen Elizabeth II ordered Nzeogwu to carry out his coup, who coerced Nzeogwu to then hand the reins to Ironsi rather than to the next civilian in the line of succession, and who then forced Ironsi at gunpoint to issue Decree 34 while letting Nzeogwu and company escape scot free for their mutinous acts of mass murder. No doubt it was also Queen Elizabeth II personally on the ground in Northern Nigeria ordering the resident Igbos there to rub all of this in the face of their host communities, which then provoked an all too forseeable backlash soon thereafter. Igbos are always blameless in any affair, no Igbo leader has ever taken a step wrong, and any evil which befalls Igbos must be entirely the fault of "Awolowo", "Yaribanzas", "Afonjas", "Yoruba Muslims", "Tinubu", or apparently, the British Royal Family.

The greatest absurdity in all this is that without the coming of the British, there would have been no "Nigeria" in the first place, and no subsequent opportunity for Igbos to leave their overcrowded homeland with its exhausted soils to go serve as middlemen in other lands where no one would otherwise have invited their presence.

Tammynator909:
I thought the war was a CIVIL war, how did the Queen influence it? Someone please enlighten me about it cos I have little of the Biafra-Nigeria war

You haven't missed anything, it was a civil war, one fought after independence from the British, after Nigeria had already been a republic for 4 years, after a coup by predominantly Igbo officers targeting exclusively non-Igbo politicians, and after Ojukwu - who had no issues hunting down Isaac Adaka Boro for secessionism - unilaterally decided that the very secession he'd opposed coming from others was now something quite desirable for the entire "Eastern Region", itself an artificial British creation whose southernmost parts had just happened to hit oil ...

To ignore all of the preceding in favor of blaming a figurehead monarch is the height of absurdity. Some people just love to portray themselves as victims, even when the facts argue the very opposite.

IfnobeGod20:
You're the one assuming because I never insinuated such. Can anyone be an island of knowledge, how would I assume that only Obi supporters are knowledgeable? Such can only manifest from reprobate mind. I am an apostle of, all of us cannot sleep and face the same direction. Some must be for Paul, some to Apollo and others to Peter and everyone for God.

Random insults, mixed in with a solid helping of delusion about supposedly divine endorsement. Yup, you're definitely a typical Obi supporter.

The message of someone you've written off cannot make meaning to you. Such is life, if you have conditioned yourself to be against someone. Whatever the person says cannot make meaning to you. If you can be truthful, there is no candidate among the contestants that have interacted and engaged the people like Peter Obi. The records are there. Why some candidates are hiding from interview, he has seized different avenues to sell himself and letting people know the state of the nation, which is the first step because a wise man said, the problem known is half solved. The next step is engaging in proffering workable solutions to the mirage of problems confronting us as a people and nation.

What bearing does all of the gibberish above have on the question of what Google Trends search data says about the location of Peter Obi's support? I suggest you look up the term "non sequitor", as that is what you've just perpetuated.

If I may asked, are you taking our people to be zombies that cannot reason to make informed decisions that relate to their wellbeing and existence?

First off, it's "If I may ask", not "If I may asked". That you fail to understand such a basic rule of English grammar says a lot about your level of education and acquaintance with the roles of logical reasoning (or rather, in your case, a lack thereof). Second, on what basis do you conclude that only "zombies" would fail to support your perpetually lying, corrupt, intellectually third-rate candidate? I guess to the likes of you Peter Obi may come off as impressive, but we don't all share your intellectual limitations.

Finally, in your last paragraph, if you think everyone supporting Peter Obi is mainly from Igbo extraction, you're a joker and cannot be far from that. As you guys want to turn the race to tribal one, it won't work. Awa Omoluabi Pataki mo nkan to Dara, asima se ohun to dara. Efi ote sile, omo nijeria nani omo ibo.

Again English comprehension fails you. The point of this entire thread is that the Google Trends search data says that Obi's support is "mainly from Igbo extraction"! That you insist this data is somehow wrong without providing any evidence to support your position shows that you are the "joker" trying to "turn the race to tribal one" [sic], by denying objective facts and puffing up a third-rate tribal champion to appear like some sort of "One Nigeria" nationalist.

Finally, don't think for a second that you impress me with a few words of Yoruba, as all one has to do to learn the language is grow up amongst Yoruba speakers, a feat many Igbos have managed from the days of Azikiwe. I myself have learned French, German, Hausa and Spanish over the years, but that doesn't make me a Frenchman, a German, a Hausa or a Spaniard. El hecho de que un hombre pueda hablar el idioma de un grupo no lo convierte en miembro de ese grupo. Comprende, amigo?

IfnobeGod20:
But you guys always quick to forget that these market women, artisans, farmers, petty traders, gate men are also faced with the same reality of the economy and are crying daily for survival. Not only that they have children and relatives that are dependent on them, while many of them have been looking for ends meet for years but no results. You also quickly forgot that the hard reality of life in Nigeria is also hitting them hard than anyone. Many of this group will surely use their brain than heart.

And of course, you assume that anyone using his brain must surely be an Obi supporter, a prejudice you no doubt find flattering, but one which has no basis whatsoever in reality. Nothing Peter Obi has said to date has given me the slightest indication that he is anymore qualified to run Nigeria than either Atiku or Tinubu, not in terms of character, not in terms of track record, not in terms of ideology, and certainly not in terms of intellect. It is perfectly reasonable for one to want life in Nigeria to improve and to decide that Peter Obi is not the right person to achieve this goal.

For your information, people are wiser now and want good life for themselves and their children.

Again, besides being a statement of the obvious (who wants a bad life for themselves and their children?), this has no implication as to who these people will vote for, unless you already believe that Peter Obi is so "obviously" superior that no one could possibly back an alternative.

In any case, all of the above is irrelevant to this particular discussion. Stop confusing what you want with what the whole of the Nigerian electorate wants. The objective, indisputable evidence is that there is a considerable gap between reality and what you'd like it to be.

Again, like someone like me, I am always on net and I have called my people home that this is where we are going and no turning back. Can you change that?

What I "can" or "want to" do is irrelevant to the discussion here, which is that even amongst the most online Nigerians, Peter Obi mostly draws support from his fellow Igbos in the SE, despite all the hype. What you, I or anyone else is doing right now has no bearing whatsoever on this truth.

It's funny reading all the outraged denials about the reality revealed by these statistics, which come directly from Google, and are therefore immune from influence by any Nigerian operators. Online search queries actually represent a best-case scenario for Peter Obi's campaign, as that is where most of the noise about him has been, while the vast majority of Nigerian voters are hardly the types to be bothering themselves with such searches. If Peter Obi is still only managing to dominate in the SE and SS amongst this select demographic, then his odds of managing anything better than third place are looking infinitesimal.

The harsh reality the Zombidiots refuse to acknowledge is that while subsistence farmers, market women, gate men and roadside peddlers are rarely to be found on Twitter, Facebook and Nairaland, they are the kinds of people who will decide the election in 2023, not the relatively privileged few with time to spare spamming online forums with insults, unflattering photos and brazen lies. Even the grim picture revealed by Google search trends are likely to wildly overstate the true extent of Peter Obi's real world support.

One more thing I find interesting: up until now, many Obi supporters have been insisting that all publicity is good publicity, and that all of us who have been criticising the man have only been boosting his profile. Why are the same people now suddenly insisting the unexpected interest in Tinubu is because he is a "drug lord" or whatever slander currently gripping their imaginations? "All publicity is good publicity", after all!

aariwa:
maybe kids your age believe in conspiracy theories. It’s your business to take okada to CAC and ask questions not mine. I don’t care about tinubu or poor kids like you that type nonsense about him day and night

More idíotic projection. Perhaps you should have stayed in school like "kids" my age did - what is an accusation which is contradicted by evidence but a conspiracy theory? You say you "don’t care about tinubu" yet spend all your time writing transparent lies about him on here, so who exactly do you think you're fooling? What pathetic nonsense.

Oh, and for the record, I am about as much a "kid" as Peter Obi is a "youth", meaning I'm almost certainly old enough to be your father, though I count myself fortunate never to have brought a waste of oxygen like you into this world.

aariwa:
So if you are a politician and you make a million dollar investment you will do it in your name? Who does that. If you want to know the owner of oriental hotels go CAC, check the shareholders of the company owning the hotel . You will probably see a company that is subsidiary of the parent company as a shareholder, then look into that parent company shareholders you will see the companies affiliated to the real people that own that hotel

Why don't you take your own advice and provide us with the resulting proof that Tinubu is somehow the real owner of this hotel, instead of simply regurgitating the same stale conspiracy theory when confronted with evidence against it? When making accusations, the burden of proof is on the accusers, not the accused!

zaki2:
Honestly speaking ndi Igbo don't deserve to be in same country with these guys. It is glaring. If these guys attack Obi on issue base, other than his tribe and affiliation, I will have an understanding. I was rooting for Osibanjo, a Yoruba man. I saw him as a competent fellow, but ever since the primaries, I ported to Obi, reasons after listening to his interviews and also did a background check on him, I 'm convinced he is the best for the job now. I am not voting Obi because he is Igbo, but because he is competent. Why can't you bigots just focus on your candidate and stop this wicked act of stoking tribal conflict and Biafranism? Can't you win an election without bringing in tribalism to it?

You and your ilk are guilty of every single thing you've listed on here, many more times over. All you do is engage in smears and character assassination, with your nonstop "druggie", "agbadorians", "urchins", blah blah blah. Not once have I seen an Obi supporter engage on any matter of policy, just endless declarations that Obi is a "man of destiny", "sent by God" and other such ridiculous hype, accompanied by at best thinly veiled - and sometimes glaring - anti-Yoruba insults and putdowns. Take out the Igbo tribalism, and what's left of Peter Obi's "movement"? Nothing other than a few non-Igbo dupes who have been taken in by fraudulent hype about "change".

Betanaija42moro:
We know the truth, Obi did nothing wrong.

Bullion van politicians are the problem of Nigeria

A bullion van is definite evidence of corruption, but being caught transporting N250 million in cash to Lagos is not?

A bullion van is definite evidence of corruption, but it's totally acceptable to open an overseas account in a tax shelter in your daughter's name, then fail to declare you've done so, and finally excuse this breach of the law with utterly nonsensical excuses?

A bullion van is definite evidence of corruption, but putting public funds into a brewery and a public mall in which you have direct interest is perfectly fine?

Tell me, what section of Nigerian law is violated by receiving a bullion van in one's home? Please, cite the relevant legislation. Unlike the three acts of venality I've listed above, last I checked there's no law stating who and who cannot have bullion vans come to their residences.

I have to give you Zombidiots credit: you are utterly lacking in shame when it comes to hypocrisy. Even if Peter Obi were caught red-handed robbing a bank at gunpoint, I'm sure you'd come up with some crazy excuse or other to explain why it's still evidence of his saintly character!

ugohazyy:
Unemployment is a very serious issue that needs to be tackled honestly.


You can tell that they're hired.

And how exactly can you tell? Or is it that only those who show up for a certain other candidate could possibly be legitimate? The rapidity with which you lot dismiss everyone else as "fake" or "hired" is tiresome.

Benwallt:
Her right is the reason I said Nigerian laws is not kind to the defenceless. In a saner clime the management would think twice b4 sacking her. Freedom of association is useless when you are employed by somebody who shares different view

Employers also enjoy the right to freedom of association. This means they are free to let go of employees whose values disagree with theirs, unless both parties have signed a contract stating otherwise.

2elliot:
If Tinubu was an Igbo man with all that have been said about him, with all honesty would you supported him?

I've defended many Igbo politicians on here in the past, including Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Oby Ezekwesili and Kingsley Moghalu, so you can't accuse me of hypocrisy on that front. I detest character assassination and propaganda even when the target isn't my "kinsman".

It's one thing to criticise a politician's words and deeds as a political actor, and quite another thing to engage in highly personal smears and preposterous fabulations. Peter Obi is now getting his share of criticism and attacks, but for the most part these have been focused on the contrast between his record of corruption and current pretence at rectitude, his record or lack thereof as a governor, and his unwillingness or inability to state clearly what his views are on issues, and how exactly he intends to achieve his stated goals. I've seen a few desperate attempts to tar Obi personally on here, but none of them have gathered anything close to the attention the many lies about Tinubu have received.

The thing about all these ridiculous attacks on Tinubu is that they are clearly motivated by ethnic hatred, and have been going on for years, with Obi's campaign just the latest vehicle for the expression of this poisonous tribalism. To hear some of the Tinubu haters going at it, a man who has held no public office since 2007 is simultaneously so powerful as to be responsible for everything that has gone wrong in Nigeria every day of the last 7 years, and yet so ineffectual that he deserves no credit for any of the progress made in Lagos since 1999. I've seen commenters on here blame Tinubu for riots in Zamfara, flooding in Imo state, even for celebrities falling ill with cancer, and no, they were not joking when they did so. The man is clearly no saint, but which high-profile Nigerian politician could be, given how politics is done in this country? Why then the obsessive, fanatical hatred that seems to justify telling any lie to tar his name?

The irony of this tribalistic campaign of hate is that it is achieving the opposite of its intended effect, by forcing even those Yorubas who don't feel any enthusiasm for Tinubu to question the motives behind all the brazen lying about the man. If so many of the people who are most enthusiastic about Peter Obi's presidency are clearly diehard Yoruba-haters, does it really make sense for any Yoruba person to throw in his or her lot with such a group, however much they may want "change"? Not all "change" is for the better, as Buhari has already demonstrated.

A typical Zombidiot at work, spitting out lies so far-fetched even the stupidest people would have trouble believing them. If Tinubu was born in 1935, how old does that make this anonymous "man" who attended Tinubu's naming ceremony? And if a man in his 90s is fit enough to be able to credibly testify to Tinubu's age, why shouldn't the Tinubu who is younger him run for the presidency?

I have no doubt that as soon as this latest absurd lie becomes embarassing to Peter Obi, you and your fellow trolls will start shouting up and down that it was actually created by an APC agent to make Obi look bad, when in truth - as with the "Jubril al Sudani", "Elon Musk endorses Obi" and "Ghanaian President chastises Tinubu" claims, it's simply a matter of you lot being too stupid and too detached from reality to know which lies are plausible and which aren't.

Zorn:
Tinubu's name was written in bold in that Pandora paper report but eating cassava from morning till night has blinded you.

Really? The official Pandora Papers website is right here:

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/

Go ahead and tell us where Tinubu's name is mentioned in there, since you're so confident you know where to find it. The same can hardly be said for your saintly candidate

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/another-president-under-investigation-us-condemned-as-tax-haven-by-european-parliament-as-pandora-papers-fallout-continues/

whose acts of "sainthood" were detailed so fulsomely in multiple Nigerian newspapers.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/487997-pandora-papers-inside-peter-obis-secret-businesses-and-how-he-broke-the-law.html

https://www.pegasusreporters.com/2021/10/06/pandora-papers-inside-peter-obis-secret-businesses-and-how-he-broke-the-law/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_in_the_Pandora_Papers#Politicians

And how did her boss discover she was "obidient", if not for the fact that she was busy blabbing about her political preferences in the office? Workers with sense anywhere in the world know better than to bring up politics in the workplace - only in the cultish atmosphere of Peter Obi's campaign can this obvious fact seem to be in dispute. In any case, given the penchant "Obidients" have for lying and inventing stories out of whole cloth, what are the odds any of this even happened?

Racoon:
This man is really a genius.

Where is the "genius" in uttering such vague generalities? How is any of what he's said different from the glittering generalities uttered by Buhari in 2015? Where is the substance in any of this? Where are the concrete policy positions?

If all it takes to become a "genius" is to point out the glaringly obvious and offer "solutions" so vague as to be useless, then every Nigerian politician is a "genius" of Obi's order.