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Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by DiarisGodoo(op): 8:43pm On Nov 14, 2025
A US-based Nigerian soldier with UN peace-keeping force has offered his daughter’s hand in marriage to Lt. Yerima, the officer who recently went viral for confronting FCT Minister Nyesom Wike over a land dispute in Abuja.

In a post that quickly circulated online by a man Identified as Falegan Opeyemi David, the officer praised Lt. Yerima for his bravery and composure during the altercation, describing him as a man of integrity deserving of a good family.

He wrote:
“Don’t worry, you will marry my daughter. She is almost a full lieutenant too. She is an elite soldier. I like your steeze in the face of unprecedented provocation. Very, very professional.”

The gesture has sparked wide reactions on social media, with Nigerians both amused and impressed by the UN officer’s bold offer.
Some fans joked about the international attention while others celebrated the recognition of integrity and valor across borders.

One commentator said, “Only in Nigeria would a viral video lead to a marriage proposal from the US!” Another added, “Lt. Yerima’s fame is going international, this is wild.”

The viral offer has cemented Lt. Yerima’s status as a national sensation and an internationally admired figure.
https://www.legit.ng/people/1683023-ll-marry-daughter-military-man-sends-marriage-offer-lt-yerima-post-viral/#google_vignette

Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Xscape1993(m): 8:46pm On Nov 14, 2025
Wike keeps going low everyday. It is only in Nigeria where you can find political rulers sounding like agberos, touts, drug barons and certificate forgers.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Hankim: 8:49pm On Nov 14, 2025
Wike has disgraced himself and family, Spit
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Nobody: 8:50pm On Nov 14, 2025
Normal joke, una don take am personal🤦‍♂️ if na like that, I for don marry Peace by now. I for be Alhaji sef grin
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by johnmartus(m): 8:56pm On Nov 14, 2025
Nah this fool that once dated that Yoruba actress.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by MERCHANDISER: 8:56pm On Nov 14, 2025
Wike is a drunken master
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by SpaceX: 9:02pm On Nov 14, 2025
Yerima Should be sent to borno, that is where his duties post is not land grabbing
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by DiarisGodoo(op): 9:34pm On Nov 14, 2025
Xscape1993:
Wike keeps going low everyday. It is only in Nigeria where you can find political rulers sounding like agberos, touts, drug barons and certificate forgers.
The man truly ought resign. Too much corruption, controversies, scandals surrounding him.

WIKE MUST GO!!!
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by DiarisGodoo(op):
Hankim:
Wike has disgraced himself and family, Spit
Only that people like him are totally shameless grin
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by DiarisGodoo(op): 9:38pm On Nov 14, 2025
SpaceX:
Yerima Should be sent to borno, that is where his duties post is not land grabbing
He first has to be SENT like he was sent on that land duty. He can't send or order himself!
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by DiarisGodoo(op): 9:41pm On Nov 14, 2025
SpencerForbes:
Normal joke, una don take am personal🤦‍♂️ if na like that, I for don marry Peace by now. I for be Alhaji sef grin
He's deadly serious. He even included pic of his said daughter
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Racoon(m): 9:42pm On Nov 14, 2025
See how dem dey use Nyesom Wike to clean ground like rag everywhere because of unbridled arrogancy, impunity and lawlessness.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Winterhaven(m):
I'm flummoxed by all the accolades the yerima officer is getting.

Even though wike acted like a tout, still doesn't make the officer a hero as he's guarding a land owned by a private individual, which is not the duty of a soldier.

If he was carrying out a duty required of a soldier, then it's a different thing. Rather, he was carrying out a boy boy errand and not serving his country.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by badoh(m): 9:51pm On Nov 14, 2025
I'm not in support of either Wike or Yerima. The fact is that the political class and the military are both responsible for the lawlessness in Nigeria as of today. So many impunity from the politicians and the military. Unfortunately, the citizens are taking sides forgetting that they have nothing to gain in this fight. Only God knows acres of land these military guys have conered to themselves without going through appropriate channels and now using their status to forcefully gain ownership. Wike on the other hand also sees himself as a demi-god and his antecedents have made people not to trust him.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Typing: 10:04pm On Nov 14, 2025
Wike, buygala, yarimo, Lere Olayinka and other Tinubu's paid agents right now

Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by IbnB: 10:04pm On Nov 14, 2025
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by surgical:
Winterhaven:
I'm flummoxed by all the accolades the yerima officer is getting.

Even though wike acted like a tout, still doesn't make the officer a hero as he's guarding a land owned by a private individual, which is not the duty of a soldier.

If he was carrying out a duty required of a soldier, then it's a different thing.
He was doing his job, that's what their rule book says ,they obey orders,he was posted to serve his oga ,and he served him dutifully, wike would have grab the land if not for what happened, wike don't operate fairly, were lafin nwo were, you cure madness with madness, can't you see problem solved,
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Sat98: 10:05pm On Nov 14, 2025
The gesture has sparked wide reactions on social media, with Nigerians both amused and impressed by the UN officer’s bold offer.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by feedthenation(m): 10:05pm On Nov 14, 2025
---FCT Minister don buy market---
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Zocalite: 10:06pm On Nov 14, 2025
Being in this wicked tulumbu government has really protected wike

Wike don't know how a irritation he is to nigerians
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Blackskinman007(m): 10:06pm On Nov 14, 2025
SpencerForbes:
Normal joke, una don take am personal🤦‍♂️ if na like that, I for don marry Peace by now. I for be Alhaji sef grin
Alhaji and peace in one sentence??
Future impossible tense
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by marksonrick: 10:06pm On Nov 14, 2025
This is what I have observed with many Nigerians. They laugh
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Melagros(m): 10:07pm On Nov 14, 2025
COMRADES, this guy has turned to a celebrity overnight
Meanwhile, as he/the military put that effort to stop wike from landgrabbing/demolishing their building or land in Abuja, should also put the same effort in combating insecurity/ bokoharam in Nigeria
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by anonimi: 10:08pm On Nov 14, 2025
Hankim:
Wike has disgraced himself and family, Spit
The FCT land grabbing drunkard did not start disgracing himself today. He has been disgracing himself since forever, even though he thinks he is overwise than everyone else.


anonimi:
Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT

Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.

Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.

The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.

The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.

The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.

Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.

https://dailytrust.com/wike-lobbied-pdp-committee-to-be-atikus-running-mate-ex-govship-aspirant/
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2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

ddippset:
Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.

Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku.
He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
grin grin

He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party..
Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.


This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.

He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by GenFunction: 10:08pm On Nov 14, 2025
Village people dey use wike stain Tinubu white.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by cColumbus(m): 10:11pm On Nov 14, 2025
Tbh, they are gaslighting this whole issue too much...Make wike no go run this boy strong tin with him last blood. calling unnecessary attention on a matter that should have been buried by now😐
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by southsouthking(m): 10:11pm On Nov 14, 2025
Whatever wants to kill a dog must first kill his ability to smell.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by idonhammer: 10:12pm On Nov 14, 2025
Just as they are guiding Tinubu and Obi Cubana who is not a soldier.

Winterhaven:
I'm flummoxed by all the accolades the yerima officer is getting.

Even though wike acted like a tout, still doesn't make the officer a hero as he's guarding a land owned by a private individual, which is not the duty of a soldier.

If he was carrying out a duty required of a soldier, then it's a different thing.
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by advanceDNA: 10:14pm On Nov 14, 2025
At the end of the day...all of these shows that Nigerians have lost faith in their leaders and have no single love for them ..... sadly, leaders won't see this as a wake up call to change their ways for better......
Re: Lt. Yerima: US-based UN Nigerian Soldier Sends Marriage Proposal by Nobody: 10:15pm On Nov 14, 2025
Blackskinman007:
Alhaji and peace in one sentence??
Future impossible tense
Normally because na you Dey help me live my life. Professor ENG201🙄🫤

So normally you’ll tell me you didn’t know the alhaji there was a figure of speechhuh

Na wa oo
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