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Akpangbo:He is a tribal bigot like his urchins |
KingOfAmebo:All the names you listed here are not more than 10 real people They just create multiple accounts Useless urchins |
deeva2:Legacies of stealing and corruption😁😁 |
Ayomivic:English is difficult for u Read the headline again |
herkeem:How many times on front page? Nawa oo |
jahsharon:I nor come know btw u and Keyamo who cum get sense. How did this post relate to Obi? You must bring Peter Obi into the matter🤣🤣 Obi done really show una shege. PDP go attack APC, APC will start blaming Obi. APC will atack PDP, PDP will turn to Obi 😂 Wahala wahala wahala In portable voice Thank you Obi for giving us a choice. Imagine choosing between a thief and another thief that is also drug pusher 😭 |
By February 25, 2023, Nigeria’s next president will be decided, and the choice is between Peter Obi (Labour Party), Bola Tinubu (All Progressives Congress), and Atiku Abubakar (People’s Democratic Party) with Rabiu Kwankwaso (New Nigeria Peoples Party) as a possible fourth. My argument is that Obi’s emergence as a candidate in the election strikingly distinguishes the 2023 election from previous ones. It is therefore, important to know the conditions that made this turn of history possible. A symbol of political revolution, rebellion Observers of this election can agree that whether Obi wins the election or not, he will be remembered for giving the establishment parties a run for their monies and extreme influence. Until his emergence, a third force unsettling the status quo was a mere wish. Nigeria’s electoral history post-1999 shows that presidential elections used to be a two-horse race between an incumbent party and an often-weak main opposition party. The two-horse race phenomenon is properly a recent history associated with the 2015 general election which witnessed the surprising outing of the APC at the general election, a party that was formed two years earlier from a merger between three smaller parties. Before the 2015 APC victory over PDP at the polls, the presidential election was largely a one-party show run by the latter. Following this dynamic, it was only possible to run a successful presidential campaign if one was a member of either the incumbent party or a main opposition party with a national force. Consequently, Nigerians have had to choose from candidates delivered by either of the powerful parties. The rots in these parties could only produce what is exactly like them which often means candidates with questionable antecedents. Professionals from all ranks and members of civil society repelled by the rots looked on hopelessly. Many of them could not afford the price needed to feed the appetite of the party machines to put them on the ballot. But as successive career politicians kept ruining governance in Nigeria through maladministration and corruption, conditions for change were being created. It increasingly became clear that to harvest alternative leaders from non-career politicians, there is a need to decentre electoral power in Nigeria’s politics beyond the mainstream political parties. Several past attempts to do so, however, failed, including those championed by Prof Pat Utomi, Donald Duke, Omoyele Sowore, Fela Durotoye, Kingsley Moghalu and others. This was mainly because most of the attempts failed to manage coalition, lacked an iconic face to lead a third-force movement, and there was a general absence of acceptance that such a movement could succeed in Nigeria’s politics. What is different under Obi? His person Obi, like the others who attempted to stage a political revolution in the past, was a professional before venturing into politics. He was a banker and a self-described trader. Unlike them, however, he embraced the establishment, gained relevance within it, and seized the chance to prove his worth before Nigerians as a sitting governor of Anambra State (2007-2014). Obi’s performance as a governor of Anambra State was a popular reference in various quarters long before his shot at national politics: commitment to frugal government, building state capital (saving for rainy days), outstanding service delivery (education and health in particular) and exemplary accountability (no record of a corruption case against him while in government). It was for this sterling record that PDP picked him for a joint ticket with Atiku in 2019. The same public record made him a popular choice by Nigerians on social media when various parties were shopping for candidates in the first quarter of 2022. Obi’s popularity thus, singled him out as a sought-after iconic face to lead a third-force movement. The other thing that made Obi a selling candidate for the third-force movement in this election is his ability to court the establishment and existing power brokers even while maintaining a counter-cultural posture. Diplomacy is one of Obi’s strongest strengths: everyone, including those who are on the opposing aisles, is an ‘elder brother/sister’. After Obi emerged as a presidential candidate, he immediately went about interacting, connecting, and building bridges between power brokers like Obasanjo, IBB, and religious and traditional leaders. Previous attempters either scorned the establishment and existing power brokers, or did little to engage them and this affected their ability to build broad-based coalitions. Serendipity Perhaps, the weightiest factor in Obi’s favour is what I call serendipity: a series of events whose arrangements are not made by Obi. First among them is the prevailing failure of government that created an aggressive army of Nigerians who are extremely tired of the status quo. Things may have always been bad but the level at which Nigeria sunk under President Muhammadu Buhari’s APC regime is undeniably tiresome for many: increased insecurity, a battered economy with about 22% inflation rate, a 400% debt increment and a high unemployment rate. Adding to the list is the charge that Buhari runs an exclusive rather than inclusive government that further severed the fragile ties which hold Nigeria’s complex and fragmented polity together. There is also credit to the charge that he largely failed to improve basic service delivery – access to education (consider ASUU’s over 6 months strike), health, and energy. the #EndSARS movement which was mismanaged by the government through violent suppression. While the government approach drove the youth from the streets where they were protesting police brutality and other sundry governance challenges in October 2020, it could not end the movement. The youth kept their self-organising elements and the conversation for a different Nigeria alive with the help of social media. When the election season came thus, they quickly deployed these soft powers and negotiated their way through Nigeria’s murky politics to “create” a candidate that could bear their hopes and aspirations. Before I touch on how this force outside mainstream politics contributed to creating the Obi candidacy, let me mention the other events making up the serendipity factor. They are to be found in the collective failure of both APC and PDP to manage internal party affairs which led to the emergence of candidates that the two parties are currently struggling to sell across Nigeria. PDP snubbed its own party rule on power sharing, conducted questionable primaries that left many contenders aggrieved and failed to resolve post-election matters. APC, even with a bad record of performance as an incumbent party, sacrificed other candidates with good standing to Tinubu’s “emi lo kan” (my turn) whip. The outcomes from both parties’ primaries failed to appeal to the aggrieved sections of Nigerians, the majority of whom were either direct participants in the #EndSARS or share in the cause. They were thus, forced to look elsewhere. The Obi-Dient Movement The Obi-Dient Movement is a prodigy of #EndSARS in that the early drivers of the movement were mainly supporters of #EndSARS. They challenged Obi, first to contest for PDP’s ticket and in the occasion that he fails, he was encouraged to run on an alternative platform. Obi yielded to the demand. By May 25, 2022, he dumped PDP and his contest in the party and joined the Labour Party (LP) three days later. By May 30, 2022, LP gave Obi its presidential ticket. The immediate reaction from the establishments and naysayers was that the move was a political suicide. LP and Obi have no structure, they argued. Obidients more than Obi himself swiftly mobilised and increased LP base across Nigeria. Next, naysayers charged that Obi is only a Twitter president, meaning that he mainly enjoys support on social media. In reaction, Obidients launched a series of demonstration rallies across cities to register their support beyond online. The result is that between May 2022 and today, a relatively unknown party and a candidate that was rejected by a major political party as a lightweight has become not just a major presidential candidate in a three-horse race. Obi is the top choice among all the candidates in several polls. In ANAP’s December 2023 poll, Obi leads with a 10% point ahead of his closest rival, Tinubu. In Nextier’s November 2023 poll (focusing only on rural demographics) Obi also recorded about 40% of potential voters favouring his presidency, followed by Atiku with 27% and Tinubu with 21%. Similar results have been recorded in other election polls, including the one by Bloomberg in September 2023. These performances indicate the successful conduct of the campaign by Obi and his team which, as we have shown, includes an army of organic supporters called the Obidients. In the end, there should not be any doubt that Obi is a game changer in Nigeria’s electoral history, although it remains to be seen whether he will win at the poll. Dr. Okoliko writes from Stellenbosch University, South Africa https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/01/how-obi-changed-2023-presidential-election/amp/ |
TakeNigeriaBack:Plss the person APC presented to challenge Obaseki wasn't an option It just like choosing btw Tinubu or Atiku, Atiku is a better thief. How can u explain in 2016 the same oshiomole castigate, humilate, and called the same ize iyamu a thief, a robber, someone he can never entrust Edo purse with, only for him to change his mouth after 4years of Obaseki simply because Obaseki refused to be used as a puppet to steal Edo resources just like Tinubu is using lagos govs Plss don't cry for us because we will choose Obaseki again and again over anybody APC Will present |
herkeem:Is Tinubu a lagosian? He migrated from Osun state and he too can be evicted. And who even give him the right to evict people from Lagos? What kind of brain do u people have |
herkeem:So Lagos now belongs to tinubu 🙄 God abeg never let this man happened to us🙏🙏 |
CoronaVirusRelo:You dull If its easy to remember things u for nor dey nairaland Obi is a master to even try to have all these figures in his memory You will be a fool to expect him to remember the exact of everything The real liars are the people that promised u in 2015 everything and end up doing nothing but rather making things worst, here u are still campaigning for them but calling Obi a liar because of little inaccuracy in figures. You case is worst than Tinubu. Na only Yoruba people dey support Tinubu Nawa oo |
Ndimkpurummiri:Shey Obi also get shares in diamond and access bank 🤣😁 Make una rest |
BluntTheApostle:This Day newspaper is owned by a delta man, born and brought up in ibadan Una too dull |
lazynairalander1:cry more ![]() na your mate they seek for change so dey there dey do tribal and party loyalty |
Joevics:this is what u get when you have young people leading your campaign. enough innovations. not old men like adamu leading the campaign of APC ![]() Obi God bless you forever for giving the youths the reasons to believe in this country again |
adenigga:Edo boy in Alimosho LGA in Lagos my PVC is for you and you alone. na becos of you make me go collect my PVC and i will vote u with my full chest and go home happy ![]() |
newnigerdelta1:oga show us the video ![]() thank God for Obi oo Obi has taught us to always GO nd VERIFY ![]() no useless thief politicians can lie to us again and get away with it. we must VERIFY |
Vixlot:show video or getout ![]() |
post=120331539:he wont reply again. i wondered why some decided to remain foolish in this country obi have introduced GO and VERIFY in our politics but yet some people still choose to be wallowing in foolishness. this same oshiomole cant even equate obi in anything a thief and crook like oshiomole. lead a protest in the day and go to govt to collect ghana must go bags of money at night. all his attrocities as NLC president |
BluntTheApostle:who is this fool lets list obi projects side by side with that of oshiomole in edo lets see who perform better. thankGod they both govern at the same time obi rule anambra without borrowing kobo but here u are celebrating a thief like oshiomole i be edo boy but put oshiomole along side obi and i will choose obi a thousand times or maybe u think he won the best gov by saving alone or u think its becos of savings that made GEJ to beg him to be part of his economic team despite not being in PDP Obi is what 9ja need now. man that took anambra from zero to one of the best states in nigeria if obi was the gov of anambra this IPOB issues wont have even come close to anambra, he will deal with them mercilessly. goan check the state of anambra before and after he left if oshiomole was so good, why didnt he win the best gov of the decade. obi remain the best gov to have ever governed any nigeria state since 1999, followed by fashola, then akpabio. oshiomole is too far behind and tinubu is one of the worst |
oikirodah:do these politicians really think we are fools in this country? oshiomole only conducted one local govt election during in his 8years rule as a gov instead of normal every 3years, but here is he accusing someone else of doing the same. oshiomole used over 200billions of naira to reconstruct the central hospital without buying single equipment in the building, not even bed. the building collapsed twice because he used substandard materials, it was obaseki that completed it. but he used edo state money to build a very standard hospital for his son who is a doctor in another man's country. he used edo state resources to build the university in his village and called it a private public university with govt owning 25% and private 75%, then after his tenure, he wanted to buy off the 25% govt stake and Obaseki told him it was a lie that govt own it 100%, that was the genesis of their problem it is on record that anambra had the best rural road network during the time of obi, was the most secure state, and had the best health care facilities, and one of the best in education. the anambra state teaching university hospital was built by Obi, the overhead bridge raod was done by obi, many secretariat buildings, e.t.c and he did all these without borrowing kobo, instead he still kept of money for the next govt to start using. when oshiomole was leaving as edo state gov, he emptied the treasury and kept us in billions of debt who is fooling who oshiomole better face his senatorial ambition before we begin expose all his evils right from when he was NLC president |
RAND250:Leave them I told my yoruba friends this immediately Tinubu won that primaries Tinubu is not buhari and the cabals choice for APC. They wanted Ameachi but Tinubu used his money to buy APC govs. |
AdiscoPele:Una go cry tire You guys called us all sorts of names just because we called out this govt You peoole even denied the endsars killings simply because u want Buhari to handover to Tinubu. U worship anything North and castigate us in the SS and SE Like i always say, the evil u support today will come to ur door tomorrow |
Kewtt:That was why he killed funsho Williams abi |
Anyenmoney:Make francis go rest 8yrs is okay for him |
Naijalarry:Lies and propagandas will not win you guys this election. This is 2023 and not 2015. Thank you Peter Obi for introducing GO nd VERIFY Nobody can lie to us again |
Moh247:This one is finished Even if he caught Tinubu killing his father, he will still tell u its Obi he saw and not Tinubu 😁 People that matters have continuously gave Obi kudos. Even IGP gave him the best gov on security and Tinubu newspaper carried it. Tinubu embezzled Lagos revenue sotey u now see him as god Condemn human being |
johnpalmer774:This one pain u🤣 There is different btw found and brought back Shettima brought back and funded the boko haram boys. Even the gov that handed over to him in Borno confirmed it😂 but here u are defending what u know nothing about because Tinubu ur tribe's man picked him as vice I repeat, Tinubu will loose SW All the enemies of this country like u must be disgraced😁
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🤣 If u are waiting for me to tell u that Shettima brought back the boko haram boys, then u are a fool Tinubu will not win Even in SW, he will loose to Obi SS and SE Na no go area for him while the North he is banking on belongs to Atiku 😂 Let me see where he go get his votes FYI i be Edo boy |
johnpalmer774:How u foolishly believe say because i dont support Tinubu dat automatically made me an igbo🤣 Una eyes go clear soon Tribal bigots |
johnpalmer774:You know nothing about borno and shettima I pity u |
johnpalmer774:If they succeed, God forbid, Afghanistan will be a child's play |
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