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Quoting Hakeem Baba Ahmed in his interview with AIT:

I don’t think he (Atiku) should aspire to lead this country. I think he should be a father figure and bring in new blood. Amaechi should do the same thing, and El-Rufai, if he thinks he can handle his ego, should be part of this.

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"I don’t think he (Atiku) should aspire to lead this country. I think he should be a father figure and bring in new blood. Amaechi should do the same thing, and El-Rufai, if he thinks he can handle his ego, should be part of this." - Hakeem Baba-Ahmed. pic.twitter.com/vrlJTiOLlX

— Imran Muhammad (@Imranmuhdz) June 23, 2025

Only one name was left out of his mentions. We all get the message. Peter Obi is coming!

Peter Obi has the grassroots support needed to lead a diverse country like Nigeria. The elites need to get on board now.

nlfpmod it's clear that Peter Obi the hurricane is coming

givedemwotowoto:
Peter Obi has the grassroots support needed to lead a diverse country like Nigeria. The elites need to get on board now.

You want to leave Peter Obi for Bola Tinubu?

I don't think you are in this country or have followed our politics for a longggggg time. No Southerner with or without incumbency can defeat Bola Tinubu in a General Election in Nigeria TODAY.

BondRiv:
What does it take to win an election? You are the one not in this country.

Tinubu is not popular. His unpopularity was glaringly displayed in his loss of Lagos State in the Presidential election and is still yet to change now that he is in office.

All the indices are against him. The economy is in a bad shape with ravaging insecurity. There is no way such a person will secure a second term without rigging. It is impossible.

What will he campaign with or say he achieved? Unless there is a remarkable turnaround before the election.

A Southerner supported by Atiku and others in the coalition will defeat Tinubu. Amaechi will defeat Tinubu in a free and fair election.

Everybody keeps shouting free and fair election?
Where will you get it?
It is the same Tinubu that will appoint the new INEC Chairman in November.
We still have the same electoral laws, no electoral reforms,.nothing.
Can you plant maize and harvest cassava?

The election that brought in this Edo Governor, was it the same election that brought in Obaseki for a second term? Hope you witnessed how Ododo was elected?

Uzodinma won his re-election, winning all LGAs where nobody came out to vote, so what will be different? I see the suffering, I am a Nigerian too but the reality has to be told. I will have loved the long championing of electoral reforms with the PDP & LP NASS members but they went there, eating money and forgot their duties.

Bye-elections will be holding any moment, it will just tell you how a mess the election will be. Everyday you are saying there is no way he will win without rigging, did Obi and Atiku tell you they didn't know APC will rig?
I am telling you now that APC will massively rig because we have he same laws, and the same loopholes. So whatever you can do on election day, just win first.

Buhari was dispassionate to some extent about the election because Tinubu was not his original choice, otherwise how can he lose his home State to an opposition?

Presidential Election is not for good guys. Now to the question like I have asked ... Is Primaries not part of a democratic process?

fergie001:
You want to leave Peter Obi for Bola Tinubu?

I don't think you are in this country or have followed our politics for a longggggg time.

The only place TInubu can do his mago mago is in the South West. He can't do it in the SE and 60% of SS. He won't succeed in the North if the elites back Peter Obi. Tinubu will lose if Atiku and other elites back Peter Obi.

By the way, if Atiku challenges Tinubu without Peter Obi's support, Tinubu will do the same to him.

Hahaha, that one might be hard oo. What would now happened to the Marabas assurance to Atiku of winning in 2027

A dog that would lost will not bother to listen to hunters whistle

givedemwotowoto:
Peter Obi has the grassroots support needed to lead a diverse country like Nigeria. The elites need to get on board now.

Be realistic instead of being optimistic. Peter Obi is not popular in core north.

And please dont tell me about his borehole and money donations. Peter Obi has been fetching water with basket on that as the people he has been doing donations for would need to wait for their religious leaders, political leaders to tell them which direction to go

fergie001:
You want to leave Peter Obi for Bola Tinubu?

I don't think you are in this country or have followed our politics for a longggggg time. No Southerner with or without incumbency can defeat Bola Tinubu in a General Election in Nigeria TODAY.

because of bullion vans not like he knows what good leadership is all about.if atiku can support peter obi,agbero chairman is going back to iragbaji

helinues:
Be realistic instead of being optimistic. Peter Obi is not popular in core north.

And please dont tell me about his borehole and money donations. Peter Obi has been fetching water with basket on that as the people he has been doing donations for would need to wait for their religious leaders, political leaders to tell them which direction to go

Goodluck Jonathan was also a former Bayelsa governor. He used PDP structure to win elections in the north. Peter Obi needs backing and if Atiku steps down and provides that, Peter will win the election with a very wide margin.

The north understands they have to pick a Southern candidate, so they have to choose Tinubu or Peter Obi. With Northern elite structures on ground for Peter Obi, that's a very easy choice.

givedemwotowoto:
The only place TInubu can do his mago mago is in the South West. He can't do it in the SE and 50% of SS. He won't succeed in the North if the elites back Peter Obi.

Which of the South South?
You think Tinubu will lose the SS this time?
Who are the elite that will back Obi?

Even in the South, asides the SE; where and where can you beat your chest TODAY that Obi will win COMPREHENSIVELY. Peter Obi should leave the election for customer daada ni. Tinubu no go gree. Atiku & Obi had the opportunity to coalesce in 2023 and refused to, the deed is done already.

Only God fit put hand now.

specialmati:
because of bullion vans not like he knows what good leadership is all about.if atiku can support peter obi,agbero chairman is going back to iragbaji

Let me quote the SDP candidate, Adebayo;
Tinubu, Governance 0%, Politics 99%.
The only thing in his head now is whom he will give Lagos to in 2027 and whom he will position in 2031. All this economy rise this and that, Na insha Allah.

ibabz:
Why didn’t Tinubu play a father figure and support Osinbajo?

I love this question.

Tribalism is the major challenges amongst us in Nigeria. Obi cannot become Nigeria president because he is an Igbo man.

givedemwotowoto:
Peter Obi has the grassroots support needed to lead a diverse country like Nigeria. The elites need to get on board now.

Tinubumustgo:
Tribalism is the major challenges amongst us in Nigeria. Obi cannot become Nigeria president because he is an Igbo man.

I didn't want to say it the way you said it, but that's fine.

Why didn’t Tinubu play a father figure and support Osinbajo?

fergie001:
Which of the South South?
You think Tinubu will lose the SS this time?
Who are the elite that will back him?

Even in the South, asides the SE; where and where can you beat your chest TODAY that Obi will win COMPREHENSIVELY. Peter Obi should leave the election for customer daada ni. Tinubu no go gree. Atiku & Obi has the opportunity to coalesce in 2023 and refuse to, the deed is done already.

Only God fit put hand now.

The way election works in Nigeria, there are figure heads like Atiku, Amaechi, Goodluck Jonathan etc. These figure heads control blocks of voters led by loyalists. Once the figure head backs a candidate, they provide their structures to the candidate. Overnight, you'll be hearing Peter Obi's name everywhere in these places, even in the marketplace. Even people who haven't seen him will be shouting his name like he's some new found treasure. That's how politics works.

This was why nobody Challenged Harris in the US when Biden stepped down, because Biden gave her the structure and nobody could replicate that kind of structure nationally within the time period. Harris couldn't have done that on her own.

helinues:
Be realistic instead of being optimistic. Peter Obi is not popular in core north.

And please dont tell me about his borehole and money donations. Peter Obi has been fetching water with basket on that as the people he has been doing donations for would need to wait for their religious leaders, political leaders to tell them which direction to go

That is their problem. The love chasing fantasy and illusions.

givedemwotowoto:
The way election works in Nigeria, there are figure heads like Atiku, Amaechi, Goodluck Jonathan etc. These figure heads control blocks of voters led by loyalists. Once the figure head backs a candidate, they provide their structures to the candidate. Overnight, you'll be hearing Peter Obi's name everywhere in these places, even in the marketplace. Even people who haven't seen him will be shouting his name like he's some new found treasure. That's how politics works.

This was why nobody Challenged Harris in the US when Biden stepped down, because Biden gave her the structure and nobody could replicate that kind of structure nationally within the time period. Harris couldn't have done that on her own.

Figure head that can't back themselves. Lol

helinues:
Be realistic instead of being optimistic. Peter Obi is not popular in core north.

And please dont tell me about his borehole and money donations. Peter Obi has been fetching water with basket on that as the people he has been doing donations for would need to wait for their religious leaders, political leaders to tell them which direction to go

Peter Obi only became popular in areas where Tinubu wanted him to be popular. And these were PDP core states in the south. The idea was to split the votes. And that strategy worked. The same is being planned for 2027, but this time around, north is the target and Kwankwaso is the anointed pawn.

fergie001:
Which of the South South?
You think Tinubu will lose the SS this time?
Who are the elite that will back Obi?

Even in the South, asides the SE; where and where can you beat your chest TODAY that Obi will win COMPREHENSIVELY.

Now, are you talking about a free and fair election or a compromised one?

givedemwotowoto:
The way election works in Nigeria, there are figure heads like Atiku, Amaechi, Goodluck Jonathan etc. These figure heads control blocks of voters led by loyalists. Once the figure head backs a candidate, they provide their structures to the candidate. Overnight, you'll be hearing Peter Obi's name everywhere in these places, even in the marketplace. Even people who haven't seen him will be shouting his name like he's some new found treasure. That's how politics works.

This was why nobody Challenged Harris in the US when Biden stepped down, because Biden gave her the structure and nobody could replicate that kind of structure nationally within the time period. Harris couldn't have done that on her own.

This coalition can push Bola to the extreme but the worse is a re-run. Jags has the upper hand. Again, if they go separately like I believe strongly they will, no need coming out that day, just sleep in your house if you are in Nigeria.

Again, is contesting Primaries not a democratic process?

If Atiku plays a statesman role, everything will be alright in the end.

helinues:
Be realistic instead of being optimistic. Peter Obi is not popular in core north.

And please dont tell me about his borehole and money donations. Peter Obi has been fetching water with basket on that as the people he has been doing donations for would need to wait for their religious leaders, political leaders to tell them which direction to go

fergie001:
Let me quote the SDP candidate, Adebayo;
Tinubu, Governance 0%, Politics 99%.
The only thing in his head now is whom he will give Lagos to in 2027 and whom he will position in 2031. All this economy rise this and that, Na insha Allah.


I love this question.

you too knew agbero chairman 100%

ukukaegbu:
Now, are you talking about a free and fair election or a compromised one?

The election will be heavily compromised.

fergie001:
The election will be heavily compromised.

Even with a heavily compromised election, Tinubu can't win with Atiku backing Peter Obi or Peter Obi backing Atiku.

Unless we're pretending that every rigging machinery in Nigeria like PU agents, police officers at PUs, and Agberos in Nigeria are controlled on election day from Aso Rock.

Tinubumustgo:
Tribalism is the major challenges amongst us in Nigeria. Obi cannot become Nigeria president because he is an Igbo man.

I agree with you 100%. Most of these people shouting Peter Obi are actually Tinubu’s Allie’s trying to mount pressure on the opposition to pick Peter Obi because they know he’s a seeker opposition to Tinubu.

givedemwotowoto:
Peter Obi has the grassroots support needed to lead a diverse country like Nigeria. The elites need to get on board now.

Tinubu will destroy him before 12 noon. Go and check my previous posts. The last person I want to win is Tinubu but with Obi has the major candidate, he won't even need to rig election again. The campaign will just be dat Obi wants to create Biafra and that will be the anthem in North.
Let me tell you people what you don't know, Alfas and traditionalists have been paid hundred of millions to cast spell on citizens to fight against Atiku and Obi joint ticket. You people don't know who Tinubu is

givedemwotowoto:
Goodluck Jonathan was also a former Bayelsa governor. He used PDP structure to win elections in the north. Peter Obi needs backing and if Atiku steps down and provides that, Peter will win the election with a very wide margin. The north understands they have to pick a Southern candidate, so they have to choose Tinubu or Peter Obi. With Northern elite structures on ground for Peter Obi, that's a very easy choice.

You can't compare GEJ with Peter Obi. GEJ to some extent get along with some politicians, same can't be said about Peter Obi as he has been working solo.

Don't even let us talk about Peter Obi's tribe or the attitude of his supporters towards others

helinues:
You can't compare GEJ with Peter Obi. GEJ to some extent get along with some politicians, same can't be said about Peter Obi as he has been working solo.

Don't even let us talk about Peter Obi's tribe or the attitude of his supporters towards others

Peter Obi got along well with politicians. He was Goodluck Jonathan's honorary special adviser even as a governor, was recommended to Atiku by OBJ, was running mate to Atiku Abubakar out of many possible candidates

Peter Obi's tribe is a common problem of Tinubu's 2 million supporters. It's not a national problem. Most of Peter Obi supporters were former GEJ supporters.

givedemwotowoto:
Peter Obi got along well with politicians. He was Goodluck Jonathan's honorary special adviser even as a governor, was recommended to Atiku by OBJ, was running mate to Atiku Abubakar out of many possible candidates

Peter Obi's tribe is your personal problem, along with other 2 million Tinubu supporters. It's not a national problem. Most of Peter Obi supporters were former GEJ supporters.

Please mention just one known popular politicians that are with Peter Obi. Just 1

helinues:
Please mention just one known popular politicians that are with Peter Obi. Just 1

Governor Bala Mohammed

Most of them will get on board once Peter Obi is adopted by the coalition.

A 50 year old Amaechi should be a father figure to 70 year old Pandora too 😂😂😂

givedemwotowoto:
Governor Bala Mohammed

Most of them will get on board once Peter Obi is adopted by the coalition.

Hahahaha, just a day news and you are already counting on it..I was expecting you to name those big politicians that have been with Peter Obi before the coalition .

There is nothing like consensus candidate with the coalition, they are selecting their candidate through primary which Peter Obi stood no chance