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fcbelle72:
The gods are wise, that's why, they dont accept cash in place of items for the gods,

🤓🤓🤓

Christistruth02:
Niger Gov Bago and Zulum of Borno are miles ahead of Alex Otti

Otti that said he had tarred a road and one single Torrential Rainfall carried it away as if it was a basket load of dust

When it comes to building quality road Alex Otti cannot even compete with Hope Uzodinma of Imo next door

Why are you guys always triggered by goodnews from Southeast?

How can you be rating Dapo Abiodun over Otti? What has Abiodun achieved in 6 years compared to what Otti has done in just 2 years?

Our political differences never stop from recognizing that Zulum is a great governor, same with Bago.

But not you guys. Why are you guys always blinded by hate and irrationality?

Fools

After MMM

Ultimate Cycle

Twinkas

Get Help

Racksterli

Stupid fools still go ahead to invest in Ponzi schemes.

I hope the person that lost millions recovers it from stealing an office chair 🪑

Ndi ala!

Isn’t it instructive that it’s the only Labour Governor that is being used as a yardstick for others?

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerian governors and leaders who aspire to excel in leadership to visit Abia State and learn from the achievements of Governor Alex Otti.

Jonathan’s remarks came less than 24 hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo praised Governor Otti for his efforts, following the commissioning of a 46.3-kilometer reconstructed road in the state

Speaking during the 80s Reunion Dinner and Award Ceremony of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Alumni Association held in Umuahia, Jonathan—represented by Ambassador Godknows Igali—described Governor Otti as a model of purposeful and result-driven leadership.

The former President, who was in Seoul, South Korea, receiving the 2025 Sunhak Peace Prize, lauded Governor Otti’s development-focused governance, noting that his accomplishments in less than two years in office demonstrate clear preparedness and vision.

“The presence of Alex Otti in Abia State shows intentionality in leadership. He came prepared. Before now, when people heard ‘Aba made,’ they would laugh. But today, people are proudly embracing it,” Jonathan said through his representative.

“Governance in Nigeria should take a cue from what is happening in Abia State—the intentionality of leadership that is focused on delivering real change. Nigerian leaders should emulate Governor Otti’s example.”

Jonathan also commended the UNIPORT alumni for their significant contributions to Nigeria’s political and socio-economic development. He highlighted that the institution is the only one in Nigeria to have produced six state governors and a Vice President who became President.

In his response, Governor Alex Otti thanked the UNIPORT 80s Alumni for selecting Umuahia as the venue for their reunion, 12 years after their first gathering in Port Harcourt, during the tenure of fellow alumnus Chibuike Amaechi as Governor of Rivers State.

Governor Otti encouraged his fellow alumni to consider public service, emphasizing that the political space provides greater opportunities to make a lasting impact.

“The political space allows you to positively impact the broader society, often in ways that surpass what’s possible in the corporate world,” he said.

He revealed that his administration is currently renovating 200 primary health centers and 221 schools across the state’s 184 wards. He added that the state’s annual budget allocates 20% to education and 15% to health, a combined 35% investment in human capital development, which he described as “non-negotiable.”

As part of the reunion activities, attendees toured several ongoing infrastructural projects under Governor Otti’s administration.

The Vice-Chancellor of UNIPORT, Prof. Owunari Georgewill, praised the Governor for his developmental strides and appealed for further support from Otti and other alumni, citing accommodation as a major challenge facing the institution’s over 40,000 students and 5,000 staff.

The event also featured the presentation of Excellence & Service to Humanity Awards to distinguished alumni.

Notable dignitaries in attendance included Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, former Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, and Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), among others.

https://x.com/vanguardngrnews/status/1911834553766863029?s=46&t=2AB_wrBea-oBYJf5ZCFV-A

Nlfpmod
Fergie001

To say I’m disappointed at Fr Alia is an understatement.

This was the last thing I expected from someone who studied philosophy and theology to do.

You dare disrespect a Papal Knight because of political differences.

Truly, there’s nothing APC cannot corrupt.

Unfortunately, the governors alone do not constitute NEC of PDP.

PDP is not ready.

I’m sure Anyanwu is serving as Secretary as I type.

Jokers

Don’t mind the charlatans who call themselves men of God.

But they are still in trade because Africa has too many fools who believe in superstition and animism.

Below is what Jesus said in Mathew 25:40-45 but somehow, the fool of a pastor thinks Jesus hated the poor.

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Wrong decision.

He shouldn’t have resigned.

We need men like him to calm down and stay in the system and climb through the ladder and disrupt the system from the inside.

Apart from grabbing headlines, we gain nothing from his resignation.

I hope he’s reappointed by Fubara when he comes back.

Wrong decision

A working visit?

But Emmanuel Macron is in another country.

Who is he now visiting?

The gatemen of French Presidential Villa?

miketayo:
I will like to see him lose but I know it's not possible.

Anything is possible

Okoroawusa:
Which FBI files? I thought it's CIA files...😂😂😂

FBI, CIA, DEA, IRS…

Na collabo

Tinubu is fried. And a thousand of you agbados can’t save him.

fcbelle72:
I support ur comment with 7 kola 7 cag of palm wine and 7 white cock... Tinubu must be disgraced , the first nigeria president to be kicked out of office

Lol! Can I get the value of these things in cash? Please🤓

BluntCrazeMan:
They are seeking interpretations as it concerns their own states..

They are not asking for Rivers State.

Therefore they are asking the interpretations in their own interests,, and they are not meddling or interloping.

Yes. Good points.

I hope the Supreme Court can summon courage to do the right thing. Because it’s totally wrong for a president to suspend an elected governor under any guise.

NaijaNaWaa:
You mean say Tinubu na somebody’s role model?

Lol!

I’m pretty sure a lot of the ijiots defending him here see him as a role model.

Rich4god:
Abuja to Kano, a journey of more than 4hrs has less than 10 check points, despite the kidnapping news we hear. Katsina to Kebbi road, despite the presence of bandits along those road, they don't have much check points. And the check points there dont harras or extort money from motorists.... Why is the eastern own different.

It’s a deliberate act to torture Ndigbo.

fatosky1:
He was merely recognized as ambassador for Obatala worship. Otherwise a new initiate into the server if Obatala. Obalefun Agbaiye the title looks suspicious. Who are the previous holders of the title. Does traditional worshippers wear crown. I sensed it is part of 2027 preparation to gain support for his governorship ambition. Good luck to him.

That’s why I said it’s like the indigenous people of Lagos are sending some subtle message.

Rich4god:
The next day, we continued our journey from Umuahia to Enugu via Enugu Port Harcourt expressway. This is a very major road, so anyone who thinks am lying can come and refute me. On this road also, especially from Umuahia to Okigwe and before you enter Enugu, there are check point in less than every 2 kilometres along the express. Though most of them didn't make it mandatory for us to settle them, but the delay tactics they employ is already showing, "settle us so you can go" vibes. This is too bad. Also they don't even check anything serious, and for the fact that security men come under attack from UGM, they aren't even alert to thwat such an attack. No wonder UGM usually succeed when they attack check points, cos those men even the soldiers aren't cautious and alert at all. And to make the matter worse, the check points on this road are mostly situated on the hilly side or valley side of the road. This is a disaster waiting to happen, as trailers use that road very well, meaning that when they are stoped at a hilly check point, due to the load they carry, their brake can easily fail, then they start moving backwards, crushing all the cars at their back. Or when they are coming down the slope approaching a check point at the valley, they can still fail break and crush all the cars holding up on the check points. What's our govt thinking. Those check points are a threat to life of the citizens plying that road.

The Enugu side of the road don't have numerous check points like that of Umuahia to Okigwe.

Now from Enugu to Nsk through Ugwuobo Nike to Opi junction, check points there are plenty and they keep collecting money from motorists tactically. The tiring thing is that two days before we pass there, thee was a kidnapping incident along the road, 3 days later, there was another kidnapping incident. Now what's the essence of those check points if they cant even stop criminals from kidnapping people.

Politicians from the East especially those at those national assembly should do well to address this issue of excess check points along the eastern roads, as to me personally, they are not doing anything there to help combat insecurities along those road that they are manning.

The East is under siege.

Our region is more militarized than Northeast.

The war ended in 1970 but they are still fighting us.

Then they wonder why we are angry.

They wonder why Nnamdi Kanu has followers.

They wonder why Simon Ekpa has followers.

It’s because the people are frustrated and angry, and would always fall for anything that suggests a path to freedom.

It’s better Tinubu does not waste money erecting Billboards because he would be disgraced in 2027.

In fact, the disgrace will start with the FBI files.

Tears is that you?

I know they are peeing in their pants.

I thought they got one foolish newspaper to counter Premium Times by reporting that Court said there was nothing for FBI to release?

Why are they paranoid?

Make una relax, shebi I’ve been prophesying that Tinubu’s disgrace will be televised and you guys think it’s a joke.

Tinubu will be so embarrassed that nobody will ever see him as a role model and all those who have ever associated with him will be damaged forever and never amount to anything in the Nigerian political space.

What message are Lagos indigenes sending?

Because every political watcher would agree that before now, no traditional ruler in Lagos would dare openly bestow a title on an opposition figure.

The Labour Party governorship candidate in the 2023 governorship election in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, was on Saturday installed as Obalefun-Agbaye of Obatala Worshippers Worldwide in Badagry.

The title was conferred on Mr Rhodes-Vivour by a group of traditional religion worshippers (Obatala worshippers), led by Oba Adedokun Ayinla, the Alase Oosa Agbaye Worldwide.

Obatala is one of the revered deities in Yoruba land, depicted as a wise and compassionate god by followers.

Speaking during the installation in Ikoga area of Badagry, Mr Ayinla said leaders of traditional religion worshippers in Yorubaland agreed to confer the title on the politician.

According to him, the Akran of Badagry, Menu Toyi 1, gave his permission to confer Mr Rhodes-Vivour with the title with a crown and staff of office.

Mr Ayinla, however, said Obalefun Agbaye only made Mr Rhodes-Vivour a leader among Obatala worshippers and that he could only wear his crown during religious activities and ceremonies.

He noted, “But listen carefully, if you are a religious leader or a chief, you should know that the traditional ruler of the town is superior to you. He is the custodian of our customs and traditions. You have no power or right to put on your crown and staff of office to meet him in his palace and see him. It is wrong.

“This is just a crown among traditional worshippers. Some of us have many crowns, but we only wear them during religious activities or when we celebrate traditional festivals. This is just a traditional religious crown and must be used on occasion like this or during religious festivals.”

Mr Ayinla and other religious leaders prayed for Rhodes-Vivour after which they handed him the staff of office.

The excited Labour Party chieftain thereafter danced round the venue of the installation to the admiration of religious leaders and other Obatala worshipers present.

Speaking, Mr Rhodes-Vivour thanked the religious leaders and other worshippers for the title, promising to live up to expectations.

The former governorship candidate was accompanied to the installation ceremony by his father, wife, friends and some Labour Party members.

(NAN)

https://x.com/gazettengr/status/1911364074857697687?s=46&t=2AB_wrBea-oBYJf5ZCFV-A

Obi is an enigma.

Obi is a big name.

Obi is a colossus.

Obi na one tuber of yam wey dem dey offload.

Person wey no dey hold any position but all presidential spokesmen are dispatched to attack him.

Obi is coming.

LZAA:
My worry is that the 🤡 did not think before releasing this statement
Perhaps they thought it would show they are going through what the masses are going through
Well it's Apcheat
Their 🧟‍♀️ will push the propaganda for them FOC

You just made a great point.

He wasn’t supposed to mention this ever to the public because it doesn’t represent a good PR for Nigeria.

But Tinubu people no get sense🤦

Buccalcavity2:
Again revisionist!
Some act "smart", forgetting that others can see through thier schemes.
Zik started tribalism for his personal interest, not for igbo cause even!
Read history!
Contest for western premier was in 1950s, so tribalism didnt start then!
Egbe omo odua was formed in 1945 by students in the uk. (Awo was secretary, while Adeyemo Alakija was president). Zik wrote from Nigeria condemning it's formation (calling them imperial stooges and jingoists), forgetting that IFU (Igbo Fed. Union and ibibio Fed union) were already formed since 1938 and 1926 respectively. I know this coz I read the rebuttal campus article.
Zik then inaugurated the Yoruba Fed. Union in 1948 (exposing his tribalism) to weaken Egbe omo odua. That singular move unfortunately helped to rally support for the latter just like the current yoruba consciousness. The beef was so evident that ibos and yorubas bought all machetes in the Lagos market prepping for fight that year.
With this historical background, how do you blame Awo for tribalism during premiership election in the 1950s,considering Zik made the statement below in 1949:

If Zik was as terrible as you are trying to paint here, why did Westerners (Yorubas) vote for his party and not Awolowo’s party?

aswani:
Azukwe didn't win the elections, none of the parties got enough seats in order to produce the Western region premier so needed help from minor parties

They both then had to come back after agreeing to form coalitions with minor parties, AG got more parties to agree than NCNC.

This is how, in some years time, you Obidients would restart you claim that you won the 2023 elections?

Stop the blatant falsehood.

Don’t spread falsehood and try to rewrite history.

Check the thread, all your kinsman agree and know that Awolowo used tribalism to poach Azikiwe’s men.

Azikiwe never needed a coalition.

If AG went into coalition, name the parties it went into coalition with.

And how many political parties were registered by then?

People don’t know that after the president and the Vice President, the next most protected man is the National Security Adviser (NSA).

The office is so powerful that he has some intelligence that the president does not have.

That is, the NSA can decide not to share some intelligence with the president since all security agencies report to him.

Now, if they could steal from such a man, just know that you and I are fried😏.

Nigeria, under Tinubu, is funnier than Comedy Central.

It’s like the new President’s reforms are not werking like Tinubu’s haphazard reforms in Nigeria 😏

In protest of the state of emergency that was declared in Rivers State which the NBA has criticized as unconstitutional, the body has changed its Annual Conference that was billed to hold in Rivers State to Enugu State.

We seem to finally have an NBA chairman who doesn’t take instructions from Aso Rock.

The last NBA chairman was a disgrace.

Fergie001

DMerciful:
Some people want their own country within a country but that's not how a country works.

If you want exclusivity, be courageous enough to form your own country.

The reason Yorubas embrace tribalism is because they cannot compete individually with Igbos who are built to excel individually.

Nigeria abandoned meritocracy and embraced quota system because of the Igbos. If you put merit based systems today, Igbos will dominate everywhere!

It is what it is!

True 💯

helinues:
Why should Azikwe want to become premier of Western region when he was from Eastern region? Reason it logically should incase you never bother to

As for Kemi Bajinatu, I have told you severally to stop making false allegations against me which are always bursted but you no dey get shame.

Have you ever seen on any of the thread related to the UK Kemi? We don't play petty politics like you lots

Do you know who the first mayor of Enugu was? A Fulani, voted by Ndi Enugu. This was pre-independence era.

But you have issues with Azikiwe wanting to be Premier of Western Region. Didn’t the voters know that Azikiwe would be Premier when they were voting his party to form majority?

Babinski:
1. NCNC was founded by Herbert Macaulay, a Yoruba man, and it is a testament to the accommodating nature of the Yorubas that Azikiwe not only became a member of the NCNC but also rose to its leadership.

2. It is evidence not ronly of Azikiwe's disdain for the Yoruba but also of his pipe dream of subjugating them that he couldn't find any Yoruba NCNC leader to be Premier of the Western Region except himself, a South Easterner.

3. It is on record that no sooner had Azikiwe taken over leadership of NCNC that he began filling the key positions with Easterners and in particular people from his Igbo ethnic group. By his actions, he directly or indirectly transformed NCNC from a national party into an Igbo or Eastern party.

4. By the benefit of hindsight, it would have been a disastrous mistake if Azikiwe had been made Premier of Western Region instead of Awolowo. We all know that Azikiwe's leadership and legacy in the Eastern Region is far beneath what Awolowo's legacy and contributions to the development of the Western Region.

5. A careful examination of Zikism and the Zikist Movement reveals their death as a result of the fact that Azikiwe was unwilling to make the required personal sacrifices unlike Mathma Ghandi. Hence it was only Awolowo that was able to found and lead a party based on ideology in the entire country. It is little wonder that NCNC became a party synonymous with corruption with flag bearers like Mbadiwe and Okotie-Eboh. Even Azikiwe was marred in corruption scandal keeping Government Funds in African Continental Bank, a bank founded by him and in which he still held shares while being Premier of Easteen Region.

6. It is no wonder that when corruption was rife in the First Republic with NCNC politicians and Azikiwe associates like Mbadiwe and Okotie-Eboh as poster children of corruption, the First Military Coup by Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna sought to free Awolowo from prison and hand the reigns of national leadership to him to change the course of the nation.

It was a well known fact even by that time that it was only Awolowo as Premier of the Western Region that had demonstrated exceptional develomental leadership not marred by corruption.

7. I am often surprised when some uninformed people, primarily of Igbo extraction, claim that Awolowo introduced tribalism into Nigerian Politics, when it is a clear historical fact that Azikiwe was one of the earliest champions of tribalism. Azikiwe saw no wrong with nepotism and tribalism and even gave a public lecture on the benefits of tribalism in forging national unity in the Princess Alexandra Auditorium at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1964 after he became President of Nigeria.

You mean Yoruba people saw all these and still went ahead to vote for Azikiwe’s party in majority?

There are two things involved here:- it’s either you are lying through your teeth and distorting facts or you are saying the Yoruba populace of then were dumb.

And where are the facts to back all these claims of yours?

Goodnewsforlife:
let me ask u a question

There are 3 people on ground n there are 3 things available to b shared among the 3 of them, one person wanted to take 2 without caring if the other person have any.


The person that stop the greedy one is to b blamed right?

So u don't see any big deal with the guy that wanted to take 2?

So u support the idea that someone should take 2 n the other shouldn't have any?

Your analogy does not hold water here.

In Azikiwe Vs Awolowo case, they didn’t choose. They went through an electioneering campaign, sold their manifesto to the electorates; and by the end of the election, Western Region voted for Azikiwe’s NCNC in majority.

How was that Azikiwe’s choosing?

Or do you have record that Azikiwe rigged that election?