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Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Jemex003: 9:40am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Goodday90: Your sickness never still healed chai I hope you get heal next year. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Ancestortinubu: 9:40am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Come this idiort, did anyone from more than 180 million obidient Nigerians come to you regretting Supporting obi? Anyway Obi supporters are undaunted even with the media crap to discredit him. Last last na you and BATstad urchins shame go catch. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by TruthIsBitter02: 9:40am On Nov 15, 2022 |
For those trying so hard to down play Obi's achievements in Anambra State, just because they feel he is an outsider and don't belong to the clique of those who have kept us where we are today. Please do well to watch the unbiased video below made while he is in power by an opposition senator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-UWXnTfhGo |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Ewedegubbler: 9:40am On Nov 15, 2022 |
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Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Christistruth00: 9:41am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Peter Obi’s IPOB Thugs are so Violent that they are Capable Of Ethnic Cleansing And Genocide if they mistakenly get anywhere near Power |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Mrpojj(m): 9:46am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Wizzieee(m): 9:48am On Nov 15, 2022 |
BATified2023:another urchin cited, check every urchins comment here lol, they sound stupid and daft. Vote wisely folks, is just few persons creating multiple ACCTS comments nd likes to project tinubu nd APC....no reasonable Nigerian without selfish reasons would support APC.... Vote wisely FAM, we re Nigerians first, Nigeria belongs to us, let's take it back |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by CSTRR: 9:51am On Nov 15, 2022 |
By 2025 latest, we would know if only obidients would lose out in a bad govt or not. Turn politics to Chelsea versus arsenal. Make una continue. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by KINGS100(m): 9:52am On Nov 15, 2022 |
If not a useless citizen who else will praise a Boko Haram commander and mastermind behind the abduction of chibok girls. This is why Nigeria is backward. The evil men are elected into power by useless citizens who will continue to sell their birthright. Faiththatworks:
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Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by tooth4tooth: 9:59am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Peterobiisathie:Naah!! They will never learn. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Nobody: 10:00am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Peterobiisathie: What is this one saying. Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria. Nigerians will keep speaking out against corruption whether charlatans like it or not 1 Like |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by mrvitalis(m): 10:05am On Nov 15, 2022 |
traihit:The political class a far from reality reason they have failed woefully |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Pathfinder2090: 10:12am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Faiththatworks: Shut up there. Suffer no dey tire u and ur family |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by SuitAndTie(m): 10:13am On Nov 15, 2022 |
PDP would have gone far, but they employed Reno Omockery. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by johnrx: 10:17am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Igbo need to learn politics |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Niceiroko: 10:18am On Nov 15, 2022 |
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Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by royalty007: 10:25am On Nov 15, 2022 |
TinubuDeDrugLor: What a flawed analysis. Wetin I kuku know. �� |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Johel(m): 10:26am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Igbo: Just as Poverty and stupidity uses your life to catch cruise.... shameless loser. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by jaxxy(m): 10:30am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Peterobiisathie: Can reno control his own mouth?? He insulted buhari for 7years no stop. In 2014 Apc, tinubu urchins insulted Jonathan/pdp non stop bt Obidients do same and they are the problem |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by ufuosman(m): 10:35am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Everybody get e mouth to talk any tin dem like, everyone get dere own choice of candidate |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by chikason22(m): 10:35am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Peterobiisathie:Two sachet of Thiefnubuu's heroin will help your menstrual pains.
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Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by dododawa1: 10:36am On Nov 15, 2022 |
TRUE is bitter for obident FOLLOWERS |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Ganbite: 10:59am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Willy7: This he goat and his fellow stomach infrastructure partners are still living in the delusion that power to enthrone a president in modern day Nigeria still rest on few privlledged criminals and their hangers on called party chieftains. Somebody should tell him that Power now rest in the streets and with the masses. It's no longer business as usual. Obi only inherited a masses that are hungry and angry. People that are tired of the establishment and ready to resist anyone and any attempt to return to status quo. The people are revolting through their votes and Obi happens to be the favoured face of the struggle. You can't beat a child and tell her not or how to cry. Reno and his follow lackees should wake up to realities. This is not about Obi, but about enthronement of a government that will work for all Nigerians and not few as usual. What a lovely epistle |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by bdon123(m): 11:00am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Peterobiisathie:Yes he will win....we cant wait for 2023 |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by TYCO77: 11:17am On Nov 15, 2022 |
[color=#000099][/color] Peterobiisathie: Mr. Peter Obi is soaring and will continue to soar. We cannot be gagged or bottled up. EXODUS! We MOVE to take back our COUNTRY. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by StrongD: 11:56am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Been posted elsewhere but still worth reading. Quite long: about 8-10min reading I read the actual text of Soludo. There were many problems with his piece but people are bashing him for the wrong reasons. They are misreading the main thrust of his write-up, one in which I—and, incidentally, Peter Obi— wholly agree with. Nevertheless, I'll first address issues with the piece, while showing where it is correct. Despite claiming that he acknowledged the achievements of all his predecessors he did not try, in his write up, to present any sort of balance on Obi. Rather, he appeared to unearth all possible disagreements with his legacy that he could claim while failing to state any positives. Particularly worrying would be his claim to certain statistics that directly run counter to what is known Obi achieved. For example, it is well documented that Obi improved the economic and educational metrics of the state such that, as even judged at the time by the economic teams of rival governors, he was voted the best. Thus, if things were really X bad with Obi, they were sort of X² bad with others. He even presented his efforts (looking out also for corrections and advice to improve) in their then organised forum for accountability and better governance: the first to do so. No other governor agreed to present afterwards, thus, such laudable ongoing series was forced to die. The metrics of education, power supply (eg, provided transformers widely among other efforts), health ( eg, water supply to primary health centres) and, overall, what was palpably experienced on the ground was clearly better at the end of his tenure than at Obiano's end. Even Obiano's signature projects —eg, the Awka flyovers he engraved with his name and the airport— were started by Obi and funded by Obi's savings: as expected, since Obi's tenure was during a more buoyant oil revenue period. The insistence of saddling Obi with the moniker of someone who was only interested in hoarding funds is very untrue and beginning to seem a deliberate effort (particularly by an economist). Obi actually spent more on state needs from his revenue than his predecessors and successor. Had he stayed a 3rd term, the airport he had just relocated to northern Anambra would have been constructed by him and those flyovers in Awka (he had already redone Onitsha's roads and the notorious Upper Iweka: all much more than anything Obiano did road-wise). His uniqueness was in trying to conserve where expenditure (especially in cost of governance) was deemed not necessary, with an eye for investment in the future of the children of the state. In doing so he made some mistakes. I agree with Soludo that a number of the roads Obi built for rural towns and villages were not as durable as those made by Ngige. He seems to have chosen road options that would bear light vehicles transporting farm produce from such places to towns for sale. The breakdown of the major federal roads made most heavy traffic divert to such new and good roads so they degraded faster than planned. Despite this, they lasted 7-10 years. Someone once told me that the most important issue in building a structure is committing oneself to the maintenance one's initial choice for the structure would demand. Just as he first built those roads out of virtually no roads, he would have been very well capable of maintaining them as due. Unfortunately, the time for their maintenance started occuring largely in the middle of Obiano's time, who simply neglected them to completely fall apart. Despite it being possible that a better option could have been reached, the most important thing here is that Obi had a plan and executed it fairly, a plan that did not deprive his people of their resources in any way. Moreover, his humility helps him learn from substandard situations. Similarly, I am befuddled by what metric is Soludo claiming the jump in poverty under Obi and a significant shrinking by Obiano's end? I am not an economist but it is only the opposite I experienced in my wide interactions within my state. This could be one of those situations where one users an unnatural metric to extrapolate: "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics). A present-day one is that from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which says Nigeria's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at basic prices grew by 3.11 per cent in quarter one of 2022 on a year-on-year basis. Does this seems to indicate that we are 3.11% better than last year? Is this what is actually being felt on the ground? Why people are running out of the country faster now than ever before? Bear in mind that even the "almighty" NNPC has not been remitting anything to the states. The problems with Soludo's piece are why many consider this saga to simply be yet another step the political elite are taking to crush the groundswell threatening to disturb their "business as usual". This is also the main reason Obi keeps travelling around to speak with them: to ensure they, at best, be neutral instead of working assiduously against him. He will need all hands on deck (one way or another) to help reverse the sinking ship that is Nigeria. Let us not forget that the only reason Obi became governor is the personal conviction of Ojukwu in his person. Ojukwu, after interacting with him, declared him as the man to lead our people forward. I remember him begging Ndi Anambra that he was an old man soon to pass on but that they should do this for him, that one time, because they were really doing it for themselves and their children. Despite all that, it was Ngige's falling out with the PDP godfather, and refusing Abuja's directive to make up with him that enabled Obi to prevail at court. Obi was then impeached by the elite (but saved, again, by the courts) when they could not resurrect their business as usual. Good arguments, some already given by Soludo, can be given for it being better for Obi to have stayed put in that one party: APGA. However, other good arguments can be made for the opposite, especially for someone hoping to do good at Aso Rock. Why should someone —a real businessman— persist in a venture that had no hope of success, simply because it is an Igbo party, a success that is not supposed to be for the Igbo people alone? In fact, for simply being APGA, most in other parts of the country would not have voted it. Labour is clearly tribe agnostic (for now). It also lacks the bad history of PDP. So, if APGA can only win in Anambra —a state that Soludo even agrees Obi in Labour is likely to win it's presidential votes— contesting on the APGA's platform will be a minus nationwide where it lacks Labour's clean slate. The only place APGA has formidable structure is Anambra. Moreover, Labour connects an aspirant with all public workers and Labour activists nationwide who, with the aggrieved youth, give one a much more credible 3rd way than APGA ever could. Obi then buttressed it all by explicitly telling people not to vote for him if it is simply because he is Igbo. I also agree, in a large part, with Soludo's assessment of the quest for Igbo presidency and the lack of long-term strategy by Ndi Igbo. This is borne out of the understandable desire to have some from the SE rule in turn with others: very difficult due to not being enshrined by law and low overall voting clout. Unfortunately, we all now have a culture of turn-by-turn chopping or turn-by-turn development through one's town's man at the top. For example, this is how Enugu State now runs. However, as said earlier, saddling Obi with merely a realisation of Igbo rule —however laudable one's as may be— is myopic, stunting and not what he presently stands for. So all that assessment is irrelevant. I agree with Soludo's knock on Obi's investment of state funds in a business of which he was a member of its board. It raises ethical questions. However, remember who we are talking about and you see its consistency with his erstwhile actions. He is a trader who deals with what he knows, even when trying to act selflessly. He returned to Missionary systems for previously missionary schools because he knew them to run well when they had them. He, seeing some surpluses in state funds, wanted to invest them in structures he had personally experienced and believed were on an upward trajectory, so much so that if the state ended up losing money, he too will lose money because his money was there too. In fact, their value only started to dip following the overall distress businesses were experiencing (more businesses failing) during Obiano's latter years. It first proves that there was more poverty during Obiano and, secondly that Obiano's economic team should have been monitoring the investments to know when to sell them and buy other upwardly mobile shares. Nothing stays permanent. All the above not withstanding, many Obi supporters are acting like the present day Western "progressives" who do not allow others to have a point of view different from theirs without trying to bury them. That is wrong. Live and let live. Engage their points and, if you both remain with your initial convictions, simply agree to disagree. Even inconceivably worse are those who try to harm Soludo (or anyone else) who simply disagrees that Obi is the right option. Now to be clear, this is not in any way the fault of Obi. It is a groundswell of frustrations of people seeing their future evaporate and, thus flailing and grasping out for a support. It is well known that one has to be very careful (and, better, trained!) before trying to rescue a drowning man. His desperation may sink you too. See the widespread protest in Iran. Their corruption is no where near ours but see the reactions. If there was even a modicum of opposition leader there, would it not have been false to saddle him with the responsibility of violent protests, simply because he is seen as an alternative to the rulers? Obi himself has announced to his supporters the need for moderation and respect multiple times (as is well evident in his person). In fact, there is absolutely no evidence anyone can present that shows Obi egging anyone on. So, how can he, in good conscience, be saddled with the responsibility of the actions of drowning men, men being drowned by the effects of successive PDP and APC leaders? In any case, please let us be civil. Thank you for the patience to read this very long piece. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by Ekzoba(m): 12:11pm On Nov 15, 2022 |
Cry more Peterobiisathie:
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Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by zudozz: 12:35pm On Nov 15, 2022 |
Kingozymandias: Some of them dey drink garri with salt 4 hse, just buy #200 data come Nairaland to insult Obi n support d people that caused their predicaments! Some people are really born to be failures! 1 Like |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by maasoap(m): 1:23pm On Nov 15, 2022 |
Goodday90: You are still crying and shielding tears |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by IchbinAB: 1:24pm On Nov 15, 2022 |
Between this man and Soludo, I don't know who is more stupid than the other. |
Re: Obi Could Have Gone Far, But Obidients Can’t Control Their Mouths - Reno Omokri by BeardedMeat(m): 1:55pm On Nov 15, 2022 |
Reno Omockery is scared shit and has every reason to be because Obidatti have taken over their once upon a time stronghold. He can't slow or stop us with his hate speech. Rather, we OBIdients are buoyed by them. |
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