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| Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by SlavaUkraini(op): 7:20am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has criticised the house of representatives for rejecting a proposal to criminalise vote-buying during party primaries.https://www.thecable.ng/obi-reps-protected-a-broken-system-by-not-criminalising-vote-buying-during-party-primaries/ 44 Likes
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| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Truthissupreme: 7:21am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Talk is cheap Tinubu have found this out himself It takes strategy and force to fry evil men like tinubu in their own stew As at today, if na whining you still dey, forget it 16 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Mitsurugi(m): 7:29am On Dec 22, 2025 |
The job of the Nigerian politician is to maintain the broken system for his benefit while the data boys who will never amount to more than the same politicians kid's hypemen applaud the theft of their collective destinies. We will never have sense in this country when Obi will be attacked for truth. 64 Likes 4 Shares |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Karlovych: 7:30am On Dec 22, 2025 |
#Back to bordillon 2027 remains inevitable This I have seen! 26 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by billgabb(m): 7:31am On Dec 22, 2025 |
The greediness of all the reps members will fold Nigeria under Tinubu. No more rule of law and checks and balances. 29 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by BigYash: 7:32am On Dec 22, 2025 |
One man opposition. Obi you don try.. Only you one , opposition. Apc fears him like he is two political parties forming a coalition. Obi lives rent free in Helnuis and Yarimo's head. And many others like those two defenders of evil 64 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by PDPdestroyer(m): 7:32am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Says the chief vote buyer himself. A hypocrite per excellence 35 Likes 7 Shares
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| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Eraddray(m): 7:32am On Dec 22, 2025 |
See the rubbish we're voting for 1 Like |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by EponObi(f): 7:33am On Dec 22, 2025*. Modified: 8:10am On Dec 22, 2025 |
“By refusing to criminalise vote buying at the foundational stage of party primaries, the House has chosen to protect a broken system rather than safeguard the nation’s future,” he wrote.Funny cunny cunny man! Anything to justify why he and his deranged minors are bullying ADC for free ticket. No one is giving you free ticket ogbeni. If you can't influence your party delegates to align with your vision, you have no business running for the presidency. If you can't convince less than a thousand delegates to side with you, money-induced or not, you have no business telling over 200 million Nigerians to send you to Aso Villa. The thing is outside of his Twitter bubble, he carries no tangible influence, reason he's always running away from primaries. In a room full of goats, he doesn't have the charisma to influence a single goat - it's no wonder he lost all the legislative members that won elections using his faux wave in 2023 and he lost control of the LP structure. If he is a serious person, there are many issues he has tweeted about that he shouldn't - instead, he would have worked with his LP senators and HoRs to lobby for reforms in our legislative chambers. Instead of twitting when Tinubu was executing state of emergency in Rivers state, Obi would have worked behind scene to mount a barricade in the chambers, even if he doesn't succeed in stopping Asiwaju. He would have shown he wields real influence. But no, he'd rather hide behind banger tweets and be cheered on by his minors like a clown in the circus. What am I even saying. This man lost many key figures in his obidient camp because of his lackadaisical attitude. Morris and Akin comes to mind - these are people that put their lives on the line for him and were spending their personal resources to push him. Lol... i see some deranged folks up there saying he's a one man opposition. Opposition ko, roadblock ni. You think it's by tweet? Even Sowore without Obi's level of money is a far better opposition to Tinubu's administration. BTW, this is pictorial evidence of him buying votes as a PDP man. For years, he was in APGA, PDP and he served in the cabinet of GEJ, he didn't lobby for any of these reforms. Obi can only fool the gullible. It's so funny that every single thing Obi criticizes or form "holier than thou" about, he has been guilty in the past. He has been saying "consumption to production" since 2023 when he suddenly bathed with "Hypo". 2025 is ending in a few days, Obi still imports massively into this country - he remains/remained one of the biggest importers of products in this country. Common toothpick factory, Obi didn't set up. This is one of the questions I expected our media to have asked all these years - "Why do you still import while crusading the consumption to production cause?" When TInubu said "Obi, importer and exporter" during the campaign, you all thought he was saying rubbish. Obi benefits from the same system he uses his entire day to condemn on Twitter. The way he talks about Indonesia, Bangladesh, you would think he established any rice farm or rice processing or clothing company in the last 2-3 years. Anyways, UAC Foods and Guinness Nigeria PLC won't be happy with Obi.  If you know, you know!  14 Likes 6 Shares
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| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by TONYE001(m): 7:33am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Why on God's earth was vote buying not criminalized? Why was the death penalty not accepted for convicted terrorists? Many of these so-called leaders in this country are just MAD!!! 22 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Saturnalia(m): 7:34am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Karlovych:Peter Obi will never become the President of Nigeria no matter his wailing and crying. Even the blind and the deaf know this fact. Nobody has ever won the Presidency through lies, propaganda & tribalism. 15 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by zoedew: 7:35am On Dec 22, 2025 |
I agree with Peter Obi on this one. He was clear. 9 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by FineUsername(m): 7:35am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Nigerians don't want to be save!  If more than 100m people are unemployed; More than 20m children are out of school; More than 150m are struggling to survive (both employed and unemployed ooo); With all these, no single protest but online ranting upanda. 12 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by TONYE001(m): 7:35am On Dec 22, 2025*. Modified: 8:05am On Dec 22, 2025 |
PDPdestroyer:I saw this coming, and this is where many of you get it wrong. At the expense of your welfare as a Nigerian, you deteriorate matters to become PO vs APC/Tinubu and all that. You put aside the seriousness of the situation. Whether or not Obi is guilty of vote buying (he likely is, every Nigerian politician is), vote buying should be criminalized! And, with very heavy punishments. Don't you see that these people are playing with your future? Don't you see they sell our future on every election day? Are you satisfied with the current state of things in this country? Leave your personal worries about PO. IS THE ISSUE HE HAS RAISED VALID OR NOT? In fact, I ask you directly, should vote buying be criminalized or not? Should those that sell their votes and those that buy them be thrown to the deepest spot in the worst Nigerian jail or not? Leave PO in this matter. Look at the issue raised. Are you not surprised that vote buying wasn't criminalized? I was! Is there any sense in the decision of those mad people in the HOR? Absolutely not! 29 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by duduade(m): 7:36am On Dec 22, 2025 |
This has been confirmed na because they are all guilty one way or the other into it 1 Like |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Yelight(m): 7:39am On Dec 22, 2025 |
I don't blame them, it's the sellers that will still cry about bad governance that I blame. If they legalise it and people refuse to sell nko? But it's a statement of shame to the lower chamber 4 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by emkz: 7:39am On Dec 22, 2025 |
This is an overdue strategy to curb vote buying 1 Like |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by SeeWahala: 7:40am On Dec 22, 2025 |
APC is a canker worm with very huge Dracula teeth that it uses to suck and drink the blood of innocent Nigerians In 2027 . . . NEVER AGAIN PETER OBI IS BAE 🤗 Whenever we say "Vote Wisely" they get angry . . . Thinking we are attacking tilumbu, but Why? 🤔 9 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by VcStunner(m): 7:42am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Foolish people will argue, but when you deep it, you will realize that this is one of the greatest ills against our democracy. Nip vote buying in the bud (at the primaries) and then scale it all the way up and see how governance changes from elitist settlement concept to a people focused policy driven governance. Na English sha because we now have idi.ots with data these days. 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by tuoyoojo(m): 7:45am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Nigerians are funny people After selling votes,they come to complain about bad government All those monies that those delegates collected during elections, the money never finish tay tay ni 4 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by keemsleek(m): 7:45am On Dec 22, 2025 |
There's no single saint politicians in nigeria. All parties buy votes. Anyone who claim innocent is an hypocrite. 2 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by OldSkoolHeadBoy: 7:45am On Dec 22, 2025 |
So, why did LP politicians not speak up ? Obi is a very dumb politician who cloaks ONLY himself in the garment of self-righteousness and has refused to put together a structure of like minds. You need people, dumbo ! SlavaUkraini: 3 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Justdare: 7:49am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Coming from the man with a viral photo of wads of cash buying votes. This selective amnesia must stop in 2026 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by SpaceX: 7:50am On Dec 22, 2025 |
Only if we had him as the president instead of the intruder in aso Rock. Obi is too intelligent not to be president. 6 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Mccullum: 7:54am On Dec 22, 2025 |
PDPdestroyer:See the hypocrite sharing money here, Still his headless followers will find it to see his hypocrisy. 2 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Port8080: 7:54am On Dec 22, 2025 |
You want them to criminalize a system that brought them into power? Of all election rigging strategies vote-buying is the "low hanging fruit" 1 Like |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by lymelyte(m): 7:59am On Dec 22, 2025 |
FineUsername:it is appalling..beats my imagination. Just like an individual that is both the prisoner and the prison guard. I.e 4 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Authoreety: 7:59am On Dec 22, 2025 |
On point ... The system is terribly corrupt 2 Likes |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Sirianese: 8:00am On Dec 22, 2025 |
SlavaUkraini:The Reps are all criminals, why would you expect them to work against their own perverse interests? 1 Like |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by YourNextLevel(m): 8:00am On Dec 22, 2025 |
With $50 and $30 respectively? Impossible , they are all bought with dollars |
| Re: Obi: Reps Protected A Broken System By Not Criminalising Vote-Buying by Mubiola360: 8:00am On Dec 22, 2025 |
billgabb:when obi didn't conduct election, there was rule of law,right? |
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