₦airaland Forum

SMGGroup:
Bro, don't get me wrong. I have nothing personal against you. It's OK if Obi is not your candidate, but let it not be so because of his tribe. Black people all over the world are brothers and one. Whether you are from Ghana or Columbia, I don't see the need for your taunts

Take the statistics of those shouting Obi left and right... You don't need to look elsewhere for those supporting a candidate because of tribe.
For us, we're desirous of results and progress. Therefore, the competence, capacity, and antecedents of the contestants are the key considerations. You don't approach intelligent people with also these primordial sentiments and empty talks that provide no enviable references but only promises by a crooked politician who can do anything (including jumping from one party to another, lying, and quoting wrong statistics) to deceive the gullible followers.

SMGGroup:
You won't dispute the fact that Nigeria needs a shift from the norm. That says a lot about what motivates your vote. If Obi is a Yoruba, I am sure you will vote for him.
I know the only defense you have is name calling, but it's all good. At the end of the day, what we all want is a better country. Have an amazing day.

Like a shift from where Obi met Anambra to where it is today

tctrills:
APC plans their mega rally in Lagos tomorrow at a time when most Christians would be in church and observing worship.
First they introduced Muslim/Muslim. Now they hold their rallies coincide with Christian worship.
APC please postpone your mega rally. Consider the Christians in your party who view Sunday as a day of worship.

You're ignorantly assuming all Christians go to church on Sundays.
You're also assuming all Sunday churches start their service at 9am and they are in church throughout the day.
Obidients are daft.

SMGGroup:
Seems you are not getting it. Everything you have been writing is what put Nigeria in this mess. You want to continue repeating history instead of dishing tribalism.

We are envisaging a new Nigeria and you are still domiciled in the past. According to you, we should vote by tribalism, next election, we divide and rule again and on and on. Do you really want the best for our future generations

Stop living is self-deceit. You're envisaging a new Nigeria through Obi, an irredeemable chieftain of the PDP who even said recently that his ideology is not different from that of Atiku. He was right, after all the duo contested together on the same ticket in 2019. How some ignoramus think the same Obi is the person Nigeria needs for a rebirth is what I don't know. Don't worry, an igbo agenda can be packaged as anything but will only be supported by tribal bigots like you.

tctrills:
Oga what is the duty of the chairman of a company? In the US, they are called president of companies. What is their duty.
The least you could do is browse.

The Chairman is responsible for leading the Board and focusing it on strategic matters, overseeing the Group's business and setting high governance standards. He plays a pivotal role in fostering the effectiveness of the Board and individual Directors, both inside and outside the board room.

Stop arguing blindly.

To add to this discussion, you need to check a few other organizations and interrogate who the chairmen are and why they were made the chairmen.

The board of an organization basically oversees the investment of the shareholders (the owners) in the organization and ensures the organization is run in the interests of the shareholders. First, the board doesnt run the organization. It's only there to ensure the people running the organization are not shortchanging the owners (the shareholders). Regularly, a board meeting is held where the executive managers present the reports of business operations to the board and also get approval from the board for projects exceeding certain thresholds. The board needs a chairman who usually is the majority shareholder since the number of shares you hold equates to your votes. Of course, other major shareholders can come together to elect a chairman where there is no clear majority shareholder.

For example, if the split is 15%, 25%, 40%, 10%, 10%. The 15%, 25%, 10%, and 10% shareholders can work together to elect the chairman of the board even if the 40% shareholder does not support their choice. However, if a shareholder has 60% of the total shares of the organization, he is automatically the chairman of the board or whoever he supports is the chairman of the board.

So, Obi could have even made himself the chairman by virtue of holding the majority shares. He could have also been elected by members of the board. Basically, your shareholding is mainly the criterion for qualification here. This is assuming the person is educated enough to comprehend numbers, business terms, and effectively represent the shareholders. Therefore, there is nothing special about Obi being the chairman of a bank. He had (and still has) a lot of money there and that qualified him for the position.

SMGGroup:
On the contrary, Igbos are the only ethnic group that have always voted and supported other tribes.
From Obasanjo, to Yaradua and Atiku, and to Jonathan.

It baffles me how you don't see yourself as a tribalist judging from your above comment

Yorubas and Igbos have never been on the same side politically. Since 1999, the real Yorubas have been APC (only changing party name) and Igbos have been traditionally PDP. While the Yorubas have established themselves in the APC and now taking the center stage, the igbos are still struggling for relevance in the party they have supported for a whole generation. This led to the splinter group (LP) engineered by Obi. While this will put an Igbo's name/Obi on the ballot, it is an exercise in futility because even at home, Obi will have to contend with many forces - the traditional PDP governors and chieftains who have refused to endorse him, APGA in his home state, and the APC controlled SE states.

MeineMutter:
The majority shareholders (Controlling Interest - i.e. those that have more than 50% equity in a company VETO who would be chairman). They don't vote individually. Even if they do, they already know who they want to be their chairman. So it is like a selection not an election.

It is not Chairman that grows business. Chairman is a NED (Non-Executive Director). It is a figure-head, like a (your) Prime Minister that Azikiwe was. Only EDs (Executive Directors e.g. MD, FD, SD, HRD etc) manage and grow companies. get a learning. They only put Obi there on God-knows-why. He was just a rubberstamp. This 0-2 now. One of you dullards first of all called Obi MD/CEO which it was rebuffed. That's 0-1.

That was why they were saying/arguing blindly that Diamond Bank merged with Access Bank. Meanwhile, Access Bank took over Diamond Bank.

It has shown that Igbos only have agidi. Only a few of them are intelligent. They know next to nothing in the academic world. All they are after is drug, spare-parts selling, piracy, counterfeiting.

So, you are the kid, not me. I have over 18 years' top-notch multinational company experience as senior manager. You are the half-baked, educated-illustrate.

Joseph Onuorah that is leading your LP Lagos rally was a junior to me at one of the multinationals I have worked so shutthepithole of your abasha mouth up.

KEVIND:
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2022/10/peter-obis-quiet-inroads-into-muslim.html?m=1

Perogi didn't support Buhari and he won twice. Why should any candidate hope Perogi's or his uncle's support would make any difference?

adenigga:
Source: https:///MC-Oluomo-Fixes-New-Date-For-Solidarity-Rally-For-Tinubu-Sanwo-Olu

This is mischievous. MC Oluomo is not the convener - he is putting in his voice and calling on his followers to join the walk.

politicoNG:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02ZSAsJjisdmAkqjSxg78ZZnDN8toNELqFzqRoV7W1FCf6ts6fZ5zYwwLKYZHQWGypl&id=100050467990818

Nlfpmod Mynd44

BIZNess123:
Everytime will blame the government for everything..

What has CAN done to stop the hunger..

But you blame the devil when u are caught doing evil..

They have been praying day and night for God to come down from heaven and cultivate the land for them
Lazy people... those guys are responsible for most of the problems we have in our society today. People that should be on farmlands working and encouraging others to do same are busy praying and telling their followers to keep praying for miracles. Now they don't have food to eat

ImperialYoruba:
Haaahahahaha....

Peter Obi is now speaking to Oxford, speaking to Cambridge, speaking to Harvard, speaking to MIT, Columbia, Yale, Stanford

Com'On MAANN!

He graduated from UNN, has he spoken to them yet? Has he spoken to any Nigerian uni?

I tell you, Obi is a dullard. He puts all his focus in diaspora, people that cannot influence votes one way or another in his favor.

The guy is dense no be small. And it's not impossible he paid for all those arrangee talks.
The dumbo should have learnt a bit from Sowore. With all Sowore's junketing around the world in 2019, he got less than 35k votes nationwide.

DeepRoyal:
You are mad.

I don't have any issues with what you wrote,heck I didn't even read it but PLEASE don't ever say Yorubas are not supporting Obi

When LP did it's walk in Oyo, Lagos , when people turned up for Obi in Osun, were they all igbos?

I am not a tribalistic fellow and this is my first time ranting here but fvck any Igbo who thinks the Yorubas are not supporting Obi.

The Ohaneze and Afenifere have united to support Obi , it's not about you, your tribe or anything it is about saving Nigeria. I believe morally Igbos should produce a president yet not all your kinsmen support Obi.

If you cannot tell that not all Yorubas want Tinubu or it was his boys that destroyed the office then you are a joke.

Don't ever go anywhere and start crying this tribalism, this is Power, it is not given , it is taken, infact you lots should be ashamed of yourself, there should not be division in the east that an Igbo is reaching for the top esp when they have so clamored for it.

I am Yoruba and I support Obi with my full chest, so do other millions of Yoruba and if you or any other Igbo play the tribal card again, saying Yorubas do not support Obi then you will comeback with and thank us your brothers after we have united with other tribes to bring Obi in or can you do it alone?

You're definitely an ignorant fellow trying hard to prove nothing - that you're not tribalistic.
To burst your bubble, not supporting Obi has nothing to do with his tribe. Obi doesn't have the capacity and competence to manage a complex economy/country like Nigeria. He was Anambra governor, what state did he leave Anambra after 8 years? The best state in Nigeria? or The most economically buoyant state in Nigeria? Or the most infrastructurally developed country in Nigeria? If NO to all, where is the hope of Obi turning Nigeria into another Dubai coming from?

If truly you support Obi regardless of your tribe, I recommend you go for a comprehensive mental health checkup

Newton2024:
Labour Party Office In Ajegunle Destroyed By Thugs - Morris Monye
https://www.nairaland.com/7371589/labour-party-office-ajegunle-destroyed#117356709

Abia Government Agents Sympathetic To PDP Destroy Labour Party's Billboards
https://www.nairaland.com/7326009/abia-government-agents-sympathetic-pdp#116537928

Peter Obi's Billboard At Taraba City Gate Pulled Down
https://www.nairaland.com/7276147/peter-obis-billboard-taraba-city

Why are they afraid of a party that has no structure? Why are they scared of someone who will come a distant fourth in 2023 presidential election? Is it only Peter Obi that is contesting?

They must be tired of his lies

Newton2024:
https://www.facebook.com/1153952567961789/posts/pfbid02J3VEG8X59JnG2dLJxW4Tz6fyR3GUG7L7ZUbQLtQNNQFCzRXyJEFWQ7mFd46GTh9Zl/?app=fbl

With that same thick igbo accent?
Na wa

DukeofUmueri247:
So you should go to your farms and cultivate knowing full well that BANDITS will attack and kill you..

Lazy man, don't use banditry as an excuse for not working.

haybhi1:
No! You don't seem to be getting this. Many of us are supporting Tinubu because he had once managed to completely control economy of the most demanding state in Nigeria, in fact, despite the little resources at his beck then.

And we aren't swayed by the Obidients' noise because Obi did nothing enviable in Anambra.

okorogodwin4:
Igbo thugs Will soon do the needful at APC office

In Lagos or where? Just try it in Lagos

Racoon:
https://www.thecable.ng/northern-can-to-fg-life-becoming-a-living-hell-for-nigerians/amp

Life becoming unbearable for Northern CAN members I guess

When you're supposed to be on your farm working your ass out, you were lazying around in churches praying, singing, and dancing.
When you're supposed to be planning for today, tomorrow, and the future, you were praying for miracles as if it was your prayers that made God create the universe and the things (living and non-living) therein.

Your fate is in your hands

naptu2:
Morris Monye is a member of the Peter Obi campaign team.


Mo-Mo� @Morris_Monye

Labour Party Office in Ajegunle, Lagos state was destroyed by thugs and hoodlums on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/DdUsbKeaNB

— Morris Monye (@Morris_Monye) October 7, 2022

Mo-Mo� @Morris_Monye

Disgraceful pic.twitter.com/5uL8iFXZwa

— Morris Monye (@Morris_Monye) October 7, 2022

I thought the building was demolished.
Next news joor

SteveDGreat:
Economists and we'll meaning Nigerians are praising Peter Obi Economic Policy as contain in his policy document especially his policy on Forex.

Peter Obi has taken to his Twitter handle to share his policy on helping the Naira grow.



Kingsley Moghalu, Former Deputy Governor of CBN agreed with his idea.

A failure rating another potential failure's policy. Wasn't this one a former CBN DG? He should be telling us how we got here.
He knows a good economic policy but he couldn't implement it when he was in CBN. A typical educated African elite with degrees that benefit nobody except himself.

leethebee:
Former presidential aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has picked holes in the economic manifesto of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party in the coming 2023 election.

Pastor Omokri, on Friday said the plans by Peter Obi to remove import restrictions if elected Nigeria’s president will end up destroying local manufacturers.

Peter Obi, in his manifesto, said thus:

“We will remove import and forex restrictions and insist on a single forex market. The current system penalizes exporters who bring in forex by forcing them to sell at a rate that they are unable to source for forex when they need to purchase forex.”

Also in a series of tweets, Peter Obi said his top priorities on getting to office should he emerge Nigeria’s president are “production-centered growth for food security and export, security and uniting Nigeria and effective legal and institutional reforms (Rule of law and government effectiveness).”


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However, Pastor Omokri, who is a bestseller author, said Obi’s economic plans would rather favour importers to the detriment of local manufacturers.

He said thus: “Now, let us interrogate this policy on its merit.

“Peter Obi, who is the single largest individual importer in Nigeria, wants to remove “import restrictions.” Yet, this is the same man that wants to “move Nigeria from consumption to production”? Removing import restriction favours traders, like Obi, but destroys local manufacturing!

“Take Dangote Tomato Paste factory in Kano. If you remove import restrictions, as Obi proposes, his company, Next Cash and Carry, will be able to import cheaper tomato paste from Italy, which will force Dangote Tomato out of business and make thousands of Nigerians he employs unemployed.

“No developed nation grew to the point where they are by removing import restrictions, as Peter Obi proposes. Such policies only favour traders, like Obi, who only import and sell. A nation can’t grow like that. We must restrict imports so local manufacturers can grow!

“Obi’s plan to remove import restrictions will only favour traders, like him. But it will completely destroy the textile industry in Kaduna and Kano, and the manufacturing sector in Ikeja, Lagos, and Agbara, Ogun State. Nigeria must produce and not import what we can produce!

“If you remove import restrictions, people, like Peter Obi, whose only motives are quick money, will import champagne from France, whiskey from Scotland, and caviar from Russia. We will end up dissipating our foreign exchange on things Nigeria does not need, because traders want to make profit.

“Notice how I have analysed Peter Obi’s policy of removing import restrictions, so traders can import willy nilly and sell to Nigerians. Notice how I gave examples. Observe that my points are factual. Now, read the comments and see how Obidients fail to rebut my facts, but instead insult me. Then make up your mind.”

I couldn't agree more Pastor... If Obi does not know the two bolded statements are contradictory and in our case mutually exclusive, why should any serious-minded person read the trash he called his manifesto?

Obi is not competent and his view of the country's problems is annoyingly simplistic.

hisexcellency34:
The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday, launched an official website to promote his political campaign and solicit funds ahead of the 2023 presidential election.

The former Anambra governor made the announcement in a tweet via his verified Twitter handle.

Obi, who encouraged his supporters to visit the official campaign website for the Obi-Datti Campaign organisation, disclosed that donations from willing donors could also be made through the platform.

He tweeted, “I invite every member of the OBIdient Family, and every supporter of our march to a new Nigeria to visit. You can use that medium to support and donate in cash & kind to the campaign.

“Later today, I’ll be speaking at Oxford University on “Trends and Prospects of Nigeria’s Economy: Broader Implications for Africa’s Development".

https://punchng.com/obi-unveils-website-for-donation-campaign/

Obi and donation... When will this guy raise enough money for a failed project?

nlfpmod:
https://akelicious.net/2022/10/07/prospects-of-transformative-governance-in-nigeria-peter-obi-releases-his-manifesto/

Anybody can put an essay together on how to turn a country around.
Where is your antecedent? You were once a governor...

tctrills:
First wheat is not cassava. It has by far more economic value.

And a lazy man who can't cultivate cassava won't cultivate wheat. the message is to cultivate, cultivate, cultivate... nobody stops you from cultivating wheat. Start cultivating something and stop going into yahoo yahoo, 419, drug trafficking in the name of trading or hustling.

Spiritscience:
Wonders shall never end. An ANAMBRA based Bola Ahmed Tinubu supporter has on Thursday, October 6, named his new born, Tinubu. Announcing this on his Facebook page, Osita Eze stated that his son was born on the same day Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who had been declared dead came back to Nigeria from London.

His page read thus; “Somtoo Tinubu Bertrand just arrived. Same day our Jagaban returned from London. What a coincidence! Ngwa si ba nu m congratulations.”

Anambra will be great again! Thank you...

MadeInTokyo:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ez1muDpryQoTVaV6dwRSwbvZwXr3cZznBpEVoMhKsdboGNJQYzUzFeFEN5E3p3hPl&id=100068513193856

And some candidates don't have people

mrrandomguy:
1. I saw a picture of someone alleged to be the son of the deputy governor of Lagos state in attendance at Obidient rally.
2. Tinubu appears to be slowing down. He said this is not the time for politics. lol.

The north is in for a shocker if this is true.

If you hear dombo or slow poke, answer... that's your name

Zydote:
https://lagostoday.com.ng/nigeria-is-not-a-failed-state-tinubu/

On your mandate we shall stand
On your mandate we shall stand
On your mandate, Bola
On your mandate, Bola
On your mandate we shall stand

Awon obidense will soon find their low level as campaign commences.

Achilles881:
Ok, according to their Investigation, his family had the asset before he became governor, he handed the investment to his trustees, he did not invest any money until he finished his tenure, and even though the investment is jointly owned by his family and other partners, actually his family investment is not up to 5%, but of course you don't care, you want him to declare that the whole investment is owned by him, so that Nigerian government will tax him for a foreign investment that had nothing to do with them, and of course the oversea country will also tax him too, then you will be happy, noo, you can never be happy, your happiness will only come if he forfeited all his legal money even while innocent, same you cries if a drug Baron was forced to forfeit his illegal money, you always became blind like a bat when you see bullion van offloading looted Lagos money in a criminals residence, your blindness increases immediately you see private jets and other properties owned by your slave master, both home and abroad, wealth illegally procured by your favoured criminal, sorry, your still searching for anything you can stick on obi, but wait, have you ever considered what you are, now, visualize yourself a neutral human with no ethnicity and religion. then look at yourself in the mirror and project this same topic you are flogging now, you'll definitely understand that you are now operating like a subhuman specie, you won't even consider yourself a human, it might be that you are actually a lower primate specie that exist among humans, you really need to think seriously about what you are, no real human operate with such low cerebral capacity.

This long incoherent essay to defend a thief?
He decided to keep the family's money in his daughter's name? Obi will soon go to jail - write it down.

mycar:
More reason you should work harder, mind you, he made that money before he became a governor, and yes, you can make it. just think positively and leave anything that will not bring progress to your side, think about yourself first and leave tribalism as it will never make you rich. only your attitude can.

He will explain that to the "grillers" from the EFCC at the appropriate time. CCB is also preparing a room for him when he is done with the EFCC. The thief will have to explain why the millions of dollars in those accounts were not declared. You know if found guilty, the jail term is 10 years for that alone.

Foolishbuhari:
Answer the question I raised about Tinubu first. How can he afford million dollar homes for his children? How can he afford 2 private jets? I will give you a reply for your question afterwards. Thanks

Slow poke, this threat is about Obi pandora... Go and open a thread on Tinubu if you think you have a case