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Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Maxymilliano(op): 11:21am On Aug 05, 2025
If Service is the motive Turning the Tide in Four Years is Possible

I still find it baffling that my decision to do a term of four years, if given the mandate to rule this country, is generating so much agitation. By this feeling, we are doubting the fact that a sincere leader can achieve much in 48 months.

I have never been desperate in the pursuit of power, or anything else, for that matter. There are some traits associated with desperation, which in no way are in any of my political behaviours in the past and now, like engaging in overly aggressive rhetoric or actions to prove a point or gain attention; becoming overly defensive or reactive to criticism, often to the point of appearing paranoid.
Making unrealistic or unfulfillable promises to win support or approval, resorting to personal attacks or character assassination to discredit opponents or frequently changing positions or policies to suit immediate political needs.

What drives me is not personal ambition, but a deep, commitment to see Nigeria work. And if the sacrifice required of me is four years of sincere, accountable leadership, so be it.

Throughout my political journey, I have never been involved in thuggery, the snatching of ballot boxes, or any form of electoral malpractice. I challenge anyone: conduct your investigations. You will find no stains of rigging or violence associated with my name. I have always chosen the path of peace, principle, and civility.

Ask those who have contested against me—none were ever denied their rights, framed, or falsely accused. None was asked to place their advert materials or break the bank to do so. I believe in fair competition, not manufactured victories.

In four years we can confront corruption head-on, redirecting resources to priority areas. For instance, the trillions used to acquire new presidential jets and other unnecessary expenses at this time could have been channelled into education, healthcare, or infrastructure.

Within the same period, we ensure that the rule is sacrosanct and the rule of law is strictly followed.
Within the same period, we can conduct free, fair and credible elections

Leadership, to me, is not about entitlement. It is about service. If given the mandate, for just one term, I will dedicate every moment to building a Nigeria that works for all.

- PO
https://x.com/PeterObi/status/1952666408883486748?t=HcauSV8I_b0JaqJsUfjaPA&s=19

Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by fergie001(mod): 11:29am On Aug 05, 2025
Please this is enough Sir.

Let's move on to other things ... The SE has never tasted Executive power, you get it and want to do four years, why?

*Abuse is allowed*
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Factcheck0001: 11:34am On Aug 05, 2025
If obi has never been governor before, we can still take him serious.

But how do u want me to believe a man who was governor of anambra state for good 8 years n the only thing he could say when asked of his achievements was go n verify haba?

Same man that failed woefully as governor for 8 years in tiny anambara but today he wants to change Nigeria within 4 years.

These same man promised he will never leave apga but left so how do we trust him?

Same man that said he will retire corrupt politicians but now in the retirement camp of corrupt politicians grin grin grin


I pity those who trust this guy
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Maxymilliano(op): 11:38am On Aug 05, 2025
If Tinubu could turn the country in a destructive direction in just 2 years, then a whole 4 years should be enough to redirect the country's path to the right direction.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by jmoore(m): 11:38am On Aug 05, 2025
Others have been ruling since 1999 to date and Nigeria is still generating 5,000 megawatts. Obi says he wants to do one term and some are against him. Do they want Obi to be life president?

Nawa for una!
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Diamond098454(f): 11:51am On Aug 05, 2025
This man should go and rest. We are in this condition today because of him , Tinubu won 2023 election because of obi running from one party to another in search of presidential ticket and if time is not taking Obi is going to make Tinubu and his boys win second term

Obi is more than desperate

Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by benuejosh:
P.O will NEVER be President of Nigeria. He doesn't have what it takes to be President.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by jmoore(m): 11:56am On Aug 05, 2025
Diamond098454:
This man should go and rest. We are in this condition today because of him , Tinubu won 2023 election because of obi running from one party to another in search of presidential ticket and if time is not taking Obi is going to make Tinubu and his boys win second term

Obi is more than desperate
Coming from someone that voted for Tinubu.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by omoredia: 12:14pm On Aug 05, 2025
I agree 1000 percent. It doesnt take time to change things if u want to do things right
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by omooba969(m): 12:14pm On Aug 05, 2025
Another one! Lol grin

These Nigerian politicians though. grin

Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by 2mch(m): 12:15pm On Aug 05, 2025
By force service is not willful service. E get wetin you wan gain we de Aso rock. Na for your pocket you de fight.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Trendtips(f): 12:17pm On Aug 05, 2025
I agree and this is right
I don't need a lot of years to turn things around.
I should provide an avenue for a continuation
It doesn't end with me
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Shawarmagirl: 12:17pm On Aug 05, 2025
Nigerian failed system has so programmed people so much that when a politician speaks, they doubt him due to the decay political system.

I believe Peter Obi. Even if he did not do much as expected within his 4 years, he will set the stage for the next person to run over.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Tunmise40: 12:18pm On Aug 05, 2025
Lol.
Very funny.
Anything sha to be president. Hope this is not desperation
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Bananapill:
Maxymilliano:
https://x.com/PeterObi/status/1952666408883486748?t=HcauSV8I_b0JaqJsUfjaPA&s=19[/quote]If Nigerians are really sincere about changing the nation's trajectory, this man should be President.
But Nigerians are very unserious and bitter.
Who suffers the brunt of voting wicked and incompetent leaders? It's still Nigerians.
Nigerians don't want to grow from jeun jeun politics to issue based voting.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Metordman(f): 12:19pm On Aug 05, 2025
Maxymilliano:
https://x.com/PeterObi/status/1952666408883486748?t=HcauSV8I_b0JaqJsUfjaPA&s=19[/quote]Well spoken my president come 2027. Not the one in power looting trillions through Akpabio lead NASS
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by MaziObinnaokija: 12:19pm On Aug 05, 2025
grin ko possible. E nor possible .ko le work. We ADC REJECT GBAJUE COALITION grin
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Efuaye(m): 12:20pm On Aug 05, 2025
PE is absolutely right on this again! Four years of service without corruption and the need to build a selfish political agenda or block is enough to turn a country around.
Tinubu could have turned things around if not for his politics of second term which started right from his first year in office.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Ofunaofu: 12:20pm On Aug 05, 2025
Absolutely. Four years is enough to make a mark and put this country on a path to progress.

Those who disagree including Daniel Bwala admit that even if given 30 years, nothing will work

Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by omoredia: 12:21pm On Aug 05, 2025
The same human being that was Nelson Mandela is the same one that chose to be Osama Bin Laden. Human beings are not the same it is all down to our convictions
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by sirchim(m): 12:21pm On Aug 05, 2025
Carry on SARKI salama, we believe you Mai Gaskiya! I go still yarn am again, on a free and fair election, Lagos Baban BARAWOO, know say OBI the Tsunami popular like RUWA, that is water for my language, if you know, you know. Even HELL-LIE-ANUS knows that.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by MaziObinnaokija: 12:22pm On Aug 05, 2025
sad Same baba told us that he's NOT DESPERATE. What do we kal this now undecided? GBAJUE undecided grin?

Abeg! Waiter,serve us 🍚 with assorted 🍖
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by ada9ja(f): 12:22pm On Aug 05, 2025
Factcheck0001:
If obi has never been governor before, we can still take him serious.

But how do u want me to believe a man who was governor of anambra state for good 8 years n the only thing he could say when asked of his achievements was go n verify haba?

Same man that failed woefully as governor for 8 years in tiny anambara but today he wants to change Nigeria within 4 years.

These same man promised he will never leave apga but left so how do we trust him?

Same man that said he will retire corrupt politicians but now in the retirement camp of corrupt politicians grin grin grin


I pity those who trust this guy
To this point in your life...do people who know u fail always still trust u?
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by olaolaking: 12:22pm On Aug 05, 2025
No one gave him such a condition. But to appeal to people in his desperation, he gave himself such a condition that would make him sell, but overall a disadvantage to the Ndigbos. Every zone that was there had 2 terms but this man said he prefers only one with which Ndigbos will come years later to blame the people of the country for marginalization
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by mycar: 12:22pm On Aug 05, 2025
To them, what they cannot does not exist forgetting that where your knowledge ends is where another starts and for those that are crying for ndigbo, How many terms did Nelson Mandela rule South Africa? He has to start with one and if he performs well, then it will open up another opportunity for another Igbo person, if the issue is that four years is too short, why not clamor for an 8 years single term for the president.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by erad(m): 12:23pm On Aug 05, 2025
omoredia:
I agree 1000 percent. It doesnt take time to change things if u want to do things right
Except it's military government, it takes time. The president is just one person, what if other arms of government choose to remain the way they are and don't share your ideals?

Lets stop deceiving ourselves, Africa needs to redesign our own form of democracy that will make decision making more centralized.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by Commentor: 12:23pm On Aug 05, 2025
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Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by MaziObinnaokija: 12:23pm On Aug 05, 2025
Ofunaofu:
Absolutely. Four years is enough to make a mark and put this country on a path to progress.

Those who disagree including Daniel Bwala admit that even if given 30 years, nothing will work
Bia! My kinsman grin. NO VACANCY IN ASO ROCK TILL 2031.U GET IT cool
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by abc115: 12:23pm On Aug 05, 2025
A man's antecedents often speak louder than his promises, for the footprints of yesterday are the clearest indicators of the path he is likely to tread tomorrow.

For eight long years, the winds of change did not blow favourably upon Anambra State. Rather than witnessing progress, the state descended into a mire of stagnation and despair—so much so that it has become, by some accounts, one of the most difficult places to live globally. This unfortunate state of affairs has been widely attributed to the gross ineptitude, unchecked corruption, and administrative inertia of Peter Obi's leadership.

What beggars belief is that the same voices who once decried his lacklustre governance and dearth of tangible achievements now seek to anoint him as a political messiah. It is a classic case of the blind leading the blind, or perhaps, as the elders say, "When the drums of deceit are beating loudest, even the wise may begin to dance out of tune."

By all reasonable measures, Peter Obi’s tenure could be ranked among the most underwhelming in the annals of Nigerian gubernatorial history.

May Providence deliver us from the enemy within—the one who wears the cloak of salvation but carries the dagger of betrayal.
Re: Peter Obi - If Service Is The Motive Turning The Tide In Four Years Is Possible by emkz: 12:24pm On Aug 05, 2025
If 48 months can bring positive change, how come Anambra is not the model state in Nigeria?

With the ability of Nnewi to fabricate anything, it would have been a hub for manufacturing in Nigeria. Buy engine and show it to Nnewi boys. Ask them to make 1,000 and you have a market already within Nigeria. Is it pot or spoons or bottles? But due to myopic leadership, Anambra is not the model state expected.

Of everything a sensible person could think of, establishing a brewery was the best investment to come up with.

Today, he says he wants to lift people out of poverty. How? He says he'd cultivate the fertile land in the north; how many did he cultivate as governor in Anambra? He claims he'd do only one term. Yet, he doesn't want to face a primary contest in their coalition. He wants to be handed the ticket. Ask him his template for solving insecurity, unemployment. Ask him why he condemned the coastal road project which is supporting many families through employment. He was bullied to produce a manifesto in 2022 and he claimed Tinubu copied his manifesto. How can Tinubu copy what did not exist?

We need forward thinkers. We need innovative leaders. We need articulate leaders. We do not need emergency food servers and people fighting over land they claimed belonged to their brother, a brother who has not presented himself.

Any serious politician would not promise one term, but would discuss solutions that would make him appealing to those whose votes they want. Discussing the solutions has become impossible because the brainpower for it is missing.

They just want to win elections to tackle their own personal unemployment.

Among all those doing coalition, how many of them are exactly gainfully employed?
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