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INTERVIEW AUTOPSY: OJY OKPE KEPT ASKING PETER OBI THE QUESTION AFTER HIS ANSWER HAD LEFT THE ROOM


Peter Obi promised “no holds barred.” Ojy Okpe took him seriously — repeatedly dragging him back from corporations, comparisons and declarations to the question actually being asked.

Before interviewing Peter Obi, Ojy Okpe extracted a promise.

Would he answer every question, “no holds barred”? Obi replied that if you choose to be a public figure, “you must answer all questions.”

Ojy apparently wrote that down.

When Obi accused the former INEC chairman of working for his opposition in 2023, she immediately asked: “Do you have proof?”

Then again: “What’s your proof?”

Obi’s answer eventually became: “Everybody knows… he knows in his heart.”

Ojy should perhaps have gone one step further: everybody knows is a political phrase, not an exhibit.

Then came Atiku. Would Obi step down in a genuine coalition?

Instead of a simple yes or no, we entered corporations, CEOs, institutions and shareholders.

Ojy asked again.

Later, when Obi told her, “This is not TV conversation,” Ojy produced perhaps my favourite line of the interview: “ I[b]t is. We’re on.[/b] ”

Exactly. Her strongest work, however, came on security and subsidy.

When Obi promised to deal with insecurity “decisively,” Ojy asked what he would actually do in the first week. When he moved into comparisons with America, she stopped him:

“Let’s keep the comparison aside. I’m asking you a direct question.”

When Obi suggested satellites should make kidnappers locatable and hinted that “something is wrong,” she asked whether he was suggesting government complicity.

On subsidy, Obi tried to say he and Atiku were essentially saying the same thing.

Ojy stopped him again: “No, no, no. You’re not saying the same thing as Atiku.”

That is interviewing. But some receipts escaped.

Obi said he does not know who funds the NDC, despite saying its accounting is transparent to him. HOW?

He said 2023 is finished and Nigerians should not dwell on yesterday — then later declared that “as long as I live” he will maintain that he won 2023.

HOW CAN YESTERDAY BE FINISHED AND STILL BE REPEATED FOR LIFE?

And although Datti Baba-Ahmed’s stunning claim that Obi cannot improve Nigeria featured in Ojy’s introduction, that proximity question largely disappeared from the main interview.

AUTOPSY VERDICT: OJY ASKED THE QUESTIONS. OBI SOMETIMES ANSWERED THEM. BUT AS USUAL EVADES MANY.

AND WHEN THE ANSWER TRIED TO ESCAPE, OJY USUALLY WENT AFTER IT.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that Peter Obi is beginning to wear out even some of his staunchest supporters. Ojy Okpe of ARISE News appears to be a case in point.

Please watch out for the next daily episode of Interview autopsy by CharlesCNG.

Giringori is not in anyway fit for ordinary Local govt chairman position.

His followers know this but blind tribalism and stubbornness makes them to cling to this inept being.

Obi is damaging himself badly

While his supporters have been using sound speed to promote Obi, Obi is using light years to demarket himself

That is why every candidate should go through this type of interview and get their policies scrutinised, including Tinubu. Enough of the hide and seek, especially from Tinubu. If it were about pronouncing that subsidy was gone, he would have done so quickly.

FSBoperator:
Giringori is not in anyway fit for ordinary Local govt chairman position.

His followers know this but blind tribalism and stubbornness makes them to cling to this inept being.

How much per post APC dey pay you?

Work full ya hand to be always be a jester.

How much NDC pay you to tackle every valid confirmation of Obi's idiocracy?

favour32:
How much per post APC dey pay you?

Work full ya hand to be always be a jester.

I do feel bad for Peter Obí at this stage that his lack of communicative acumen is slowing wilting him on a public stage.

Why not either do recorded interviews so the part where you stumbled and fumbled can be removed or only do in house interviews.

I hope he can redeem himself but I suspect it would take too much to shed his no style no substance image that he has lately portrayed.

His media team need to be fired.

aswani:
I do feel bad for Peter Obí at this stage that his lack of communicative acumen is slowing wilting him on a public stage.

Why not either do recorded interviews so the part where you stumbled and fumbled can be removed or only do in house interviews.

I hope he can redeem himself but I suspect it would take too much to shed his no style no substance image that he has lately portrayed.

His media team need to be fired.

I largely agree. At this point, Peter Obi increasingly looks like his own most effective demarketer.

The problem is no longer merely hostile interviewers (ojy okpe is not hostile and actually tried to help obi severally) or unfriendly media.
Too often, each unscripted appearance seems to expose another weakness in communication, policy articulation or command of detail, reinforcing the very doubts his supporters are trying to dispel.

If his media team understands his weaknesses, they should be protecting him from formats that magnify them: prepare him properly, sharpen his answers, reduce unnecessary improvisation and insist on disciplined messaging.

You cannot keep blaming the audience for noticing what the candidate repeatedly puts on display.

aswani:
I do feel bad for Peter Obí at this stage that his lack of communicative acumen is slowing wilting him on a public stage.

Why not either do recorded interviews so the part where you stumbled and fumbled can be removed or only do in house interviews.

I hope he can redeem himself but I suspect it would take too much to shed his no style no substance image that he has lately portrayed.

His media team need to be fired.

so you tought that interview was life?

Lanretoye:
so you tought that interview was life?

The point is the parts that are not favourable should be removed

...But come to think of it , do you think OBI can win before, the man just wanted to cause same confusion like the last time, is even worse off for him now because those that supported him last election have seen how bad this man can be.

Go and ask them in Labour party, they tolerated him and his goons , but he abandon them in shabbles, he ran to ADC , they said everybody must try their popularity in primary election , he ran away again to NDC before he met Supreme Leader Dickson , that put all his goons in their place like Aisha Yesufu.

Even Dickson is just there to make money they know they cant win Jack

CharlesCNG:
I largely agree. At this point, Peter Obi increasingly looks like his own most effective demarketer.

The problem is no longer merely hostile interviewers (ojy okpe is not hostile and actually tried to help obi severally) or unfriendly media.
Too often, each unscripted appearance seems to expose another weakness in communication, policy articulation or command of detail, reinforcing the very doubts his supporters are trying to dispel.

If his media team understands his weaknesses, they should be protecting him from formats that magnify them: prepare him properly, sharpen his answers, reduce unnecessary improvisation and insist on disciplined messaging.

You cannot keep blaming the audience for noticing what the candidate repeatedly puts on display.

You're basically advocating that they put lipstick and makeup on a pig.

But it's still a pig.

aswani:
The point is the parts that are not favourable should be removed

should have known that they edited it to that level,they wanted to cover his show of shame cos they knew he will goof and that was why the interview was not live.to make it worthy then they sent ojy instead of rufai who is his protégé...he was already traveling to bangladesh before ojy called him back