₦airaland Forum

Charbliss90:
Wait till election day to know if he's relevant or not i just dey pity you people, this are people who came from every local government of the State, you people can easily be deceived but till then sha.
When you see crowd you should know what a crowed is, i just want you to have it at the back of your mind that as you people normally think it for other people many of those people there are only there because of 5k

I have just received the very sad news of the passing of former President Muhammadu Buhari in London. His death provides a solemn moment, not just for his family and close associates, but for our nation as a whole.

President Buhari has always comported himself in a dignified manner as a leader.

To his wife, children, extended family, and to all Nigerians I extend my deepest condolences.

May Almighty Allah, Most Gracious and Most Merciful, forgive President Buhari’s shortcomings, reward his efforts in service to the nation, and grant him Aljannatul Firdaus.

Ameen.

-PO

Putindbutt:
Lol, where's the mammoth?. Nathasha Akpoti is even more popular than this Governor of half salaries. We saw the crowd that received Nathasha. This crowd here don't pass beyond people attending a naming ceremony.

NgeneUkwenu:
To recharge his battery! You think it is easy to govern a country with over 200 million souls, many with mental degradation??

NgeneUkwenu:
They should sell the whole thing as scrap to Aboki baje baje! This was what I expected Tinubu to do immediately he was sworn in. The level of corruption in the so called Turn Around maintenance is mind boggling.

ozo13:
Hahaha.smartness .let's see as it unfolds.he knows obi can not defeat an Atiku in primaries but want to use obi's popularity to win imo state.smart man

Ikaeniyan0:
I've never said he didn't conduct an election. The mediocre only held an election when his 8 years tenure was about to end.

If it's done by someone else, the rubbish will be wailing

Christistruth03:
Peter Obi conducted elections almost at the very end of his 8 year tenure

Peter Obi only used it to install his own people as LG Chairmen who he could control after he left office

Ikaeniyan0:
He waited till his 8 year tenure was about to end before he held a kangaroo election. Obiano sacked every one of them because obi installed his loyalist as LG chairmen in a sham election

Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), says Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, never conducted LG elections during his tenure as governor.

Wike spoke in Abuja on Sunday at St. James Anglican Church in Asokoro during a thanksgiving service held for the “successful completion of inaugurated projects” in the FCT.

The minister appeared to be taking a jab at opposition figures, accusing them of self-interest.

“You said Peter Obi will be president. President where? Some of you support people you don’t know, just out of emotion,” Wike said.

“He was governor for eight years. He never conducted local government elections — never. Nigerians weren’t angry. Nigerians were happy that he refused to conduct local government elections. Eight good years, he was governor. And you call that democracy? Only one man was governor of the whole state and all the local governments.”

Wike’s comments came days after opposition parties adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as a coalition platform to challenge President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

His remarks reignited debate over whether Peter Obi conducted local government elections during his tenure as governor of Anambra.

BACKGROUND

Before the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on local government autonomy in July 2024, state governors had sweeping control over local councils.

It was common practice for state governments to withhold LG funds and install caretaker committees instead of holding elections.

The apex court has since ruled that allocations from the federation account must be paid directly to local governments, bypassing the states in a bid to strengthen democratic governance at the grassroots.

Peter Obi served as governor of Anambra from March 2006 to March 2014, with interruptions due to court rulings and impeachment.

VERIFYING THE CLAIM

CableCheck found that on January 11, 2014, just two months before the end of Peter Obi’s tenure, local government elections were conducted across all 21 LGAs in Anambra.

This marked the first local government election in the state since 1998, breaking a 16-year cycle of caretaker administrations.

At the time, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the ruling party in the state, won 20 out of 21 local government chairmanship seats and 304 of the 326 (327) councillorship positions.

On January 13, 2014, three days after the elections, Obi swore in the newly elected council chairpersons and urged them to work with Willie Obiano, then governor-elect of the state.

CableCheck also found that the claim had previously been fact-checked after Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, made a similar assertion on July 12, 2024.

VERDICT

The claim that Peter Obi never conducted local government elections in Anambra is false.

BluntCrazeMan:
They are waiting for when Fubara would be reinstated back to his Governorship Seat, so that they will judge that the case had been overtaken by events.!!

(That is definitely going to be a very wrong/poor judgement -- but they don't even care)

SamGift0817:
Donu Kogbara, International Rights Activist has said that Atiku should not compete with them anymore and should be the father of the coalition. He is nearly 80, and if he rallies the northern votes for Obi, the coalition will do very well.

fergie001:
The bottom line for all of this is numbers.

Numbers they say, don't lie. Obi didn't win any of NW or NE, not even 25%, and almost all of the votes are in one of those two regions. I like the way you are calling names I wish you have this kind of names that will protect votes against the likes of Wike & Akpabio in the South.

fergie001:
Let's be honest, he cannot beat Tinubu.

As long as that election will not be held only in Southern Nigeria, he cannot.

I don't want to factor the power of incumbency or free, fair and transparent election....he cannot. Elections are won, lost or rigged in the most rural parts of the Country especially up-North, he doesn't have these numbers.

Atiku will get the ADC ticket.

fergie001:
You always know I will respond to this but ..... I wish them all well.

Chimarto:
Anioma is something Tinubu will use to win vote from South East, Tinubu government favoured SE more than any region base on business. Business people were cashing out during the inflation base on subsidy removal because prices of goods was just not stable and unpredictable. As a worker I suffered and still feeling the impact.

Secondly, Tinubu want to unify South. If he loses the 2027 election Nigeria is gone into Federal Republica of Northern Nigeria and Republic of South Nigeria.

Watch out