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00FFT00:
I'd respond in detail if you were not partisan. A quick glance through your 1116 posts suggests that I'd be responding to a staunch Tinubu man who is only fishing for a point of argumentation.

There are Tinubu Yorubas, and you are one of them.

dannykares:
Nah only Lagos tinubu will win

flatscreen:
Nigerians are not tired of suffering

Moymoy:
He has not won yet.
Cool down.

Okealaaye:
Farooq Kperoggi On Obi

Nigerian Tribune

22nd October, 2023

Excerpts

When Obi ran for governor of Anambra State, he pledged that he would so improve the education in the state that his children would return from the UK to attend Anambra schools. Well, his children not only still live abroad and never went to school in Nigeria, they’re citizens of a foreign country.

As I pointed out when Obi released his presidential campaign list that was riddled with avoidable duplications and omissions, a man who couldn’t be bothered to even look at the list of his campaign council members—or, if he did, didn’t know enough to know people who should be in it—won’t be any different from the people we have had in the past.

The attributes people venerate in him were also projected onto Buhari in 2014/2015. One of my Obi-supporting friends said Obi “Not being greedy or avaricious on issues of money, not being flamboyant by living like a king while millions wallow in poverty, being able to save, being accessible to the people, listening to the people, etc.” are the proofs we need to know that he will be different as a president.

people said exactly the same of Buhari. But see what he became. Being in power is different from seeking power. Attributes such as access, empathy, etc. often disappear as sure as tomorrow’s date when people get to power. I am friends with a man who used to be close to Buhari because he used to tell him uncomfortable but helpful truths. The man’s relationship with Buhari endured only a few months after Buhari became president.

Like Buhari, Obi is popular with a core demographic that is animated by religious and ethnic politics. On ethnic and religious tolerance, his record isn’t different from Buhari’s, according to media reports I’ve read. He called Ngige a Yoruba man in 2013, implying that it’s undesirable to be Yoruba. In 2013, when Idemili women protested after being disenfranchised, Obi said the women were from Osun State in order to delegitimize them.

Obi’s ethnic politics as a governor was so acute that Okey Ndibe called him out on it in several columns, saying in one column that “such appeals to base, ethnic sentiments would return to haunt him if he ever seeks to be a political player at the national level.”

On the issues that really matter, Obi is no different from any politician. It’s people on social media who created this image of Obi as some transformational person when he is just a business-as-usual politician like everybody else.

This is a man whose aide was caught with N250 million cash in 2009 in his lodge when he was a governor. A former banker and a governor holding that much cash is suspicious. His record in human rights isn’t any different from other governors. The Daily Champion of June 20, 2006 reported him as ordering the police to “shoot on sight hoodlums caught perpetrating violence in the city.” What happened to fair trial?

And he lies a lot—like other politicians. He claims he never borrowed as a governor and that he left a surplus when he left office as a governor. Records at the Debt Management Office don’t support this. Anambra’s External Debt was $15 million by December 2007. At the time Obi left office in June 2014, the state’s external debt climbed up to an astronomical $41 million. That’s a 173 percent jump!

And, like other politicians, he is corrupt, too. He invested Anambra state’s money in his family business.

Yet when you point out that he is just as human and as flawed as most politicians, his supporters threaten people with death and coarse invective, like Buharists did—and still do. Critical democratic citizenship isn’t allowed where he is involved.

So, “Obi-dients” are the new Buharists. Better get ready for their rank stupidity and pigheadedness should Peter Obi become president. They’re perpetually angry. They’re narrowminded, verbally primitive, ignorant, tunnel-visioned automatons who think their illiterate trolling can stop people from expressing views that are contrary to theirs.

They constitute a risible horde of unthinking troll brigade on the Internet and are incapable of the most basic level of cognitive complexity. If you’re not one of them, you are against them. If you don’t sacrifice your critical faculty on the altar of Peter Obi political idolatry, you’re against their idol.

If you write any favorable article about Obi, you’re an unflinching patriot, but if you do the same for Obi’s opponents, you’re a paid supporter of their idol’s opponents. They live in a world of Manichean binaries. Nuance is a strange concept to them.

If Satan were to magically emerge today and endorse Obi, they’ll sanctify Satan as Angel Gabriel and sing his praises. They’re that stupid.

They deserve their name. Obedience, after which “Obidience” is modeled, means a dutiful surrender of one’s critical senses to someone in authority, and that’s what Obidients do every waking moment of their miserable lives since they caught the bug of Obimania.

Meliziz:
So nairaland has been officially bought by Tinubu and APC... Shame on you Seun!! And your useless team! It's pathetic you will allow a forum like Nairaland to believe in someone you know has absolutely nothing to give a diminishing nation like Nigeria! Don't cry wolf when the comeuppance kicks!!!

Indifferent12:
Tinubu started this yoruba lokan, its yoruba turn, its my turn, but somehow u think its ibo that made it tribal. When yoruba started their campaign on tribal sentiment.

Abdul05:
Nigerians love Tinubu Sha...



I am now convinced that .

lekki/endsar massacre's an enemy propaganda ...

Because one of your family was not affected in Lekki, this is not about love but about been funded these Yoruba actors, comedians and Mechanic association.

Abdul05:
Nigerians love Tinubu Sha...

I am now convinced that .

lekki/endsar massacre's an enemy propaganda ...

lhordspy:
Your tears so delicious

lhordspy:
We wont rest until you are either BATIFIED or nothing

Zombidients please visit a doctor for medicine or your pastor for prayers if you are feeling somehow because
MASSIVE CHOKING STILL AWAITS .... more to come

Popular Singers 9ice, Pasuma.
Comedian Seyi Law, Actor Saheed Balogun and Asiwaju's son Seyi Tinubu all present Live

lhordspy:
We wont rest until you are either BATIFIED or nothing

Zombidients please visit a doctor for medicine or your pastor for prayers if you are feeling somehow because
MASSIVE CHOKING STILL AWAITS .... more to come

Popular Singers 9ice, Pasuma.
Comedian Seyi Law, Actor Saheed Balogun and Asiwaju's son Seyi Tinubu all present Live

BreconHills:
I think you should have just left it at Tinubu supporters. No need to add "yorubas" "Tinubu supporters in the SW" would do nicely.

And by the way my first call was Osinbajo but that not having happened, I plumbed for someone who wouldn't spend his first time floundering around. If there were stronger and more credible candidates against Tinubu I would consider them.

Electorate:
I don't get it...Do you guys want us to be shocked or surprise Tinubu's people came out to support him in his home state?

You all saw how Obidients shut down Lagos, to prove you still haven't come out of that shock you keep holding rallies upon rallies in the same State.

Peter Obi is really dealing with you guys and 2023 will give the final blow when Peter Obi is announced the President of Nigeria.

Start buying snipper now before the demand becomes very high in the market.