creativehubb:
But you support Hamas muric... christians have woken up and are now supporting their own like Muric does.

mikael11:
Tinubu's date of birth on his passport is 1952. On his transcript the date of birth is 1954. On his CSU Application form, the date of birth is 1955.

Check the two images below 👇

But I find it hard on how his supporters are blind to all this revelations

Also it's funny on how the Mod post only the news that suits their paymaster and left all this other revaluation in the results shame !!!

SpecialAdviser:
Tinubu has really been a motivator to so many youths

Babalegba:
Obi is too ignorant to be Nigeria's president. His understanding of English language and syntax is woeful

Elsudani2:
"We get on all right with the Yoruba here. Our only problem is with the OPC."
- Hausa community leader in Ajegunle, September 2002

There were two waves of clashes in Ajegunle, an area of Lagos. The first occurred in around September-October 1999, when Yoruba clashed with Ijaw, in what was seen as the aftermath of earlier, violent confrontations between Ijaw and Ilaje (a sub-group of the Yoruba) in Ondo State. Human Rights Watch did not carry out an in-depth investigation into these clashes, but spoke to some local residents of Ajegunle, who said that more than forty people were killed, most of them men. The victims included both Ijaw and Yoruba. Some were killed with machetes, others were burnt, others were shot dead. The report of the tribunal of inquiry set up by the state government into civil disturbances in Lagos State (see Section VII, 2 below) stated that the fighting did not appear to involve the entire Yoruba community in the area, but was more specifically "fighting between OPC members and Ijaw boys."

The second clash occurred about one year later, in October 2000, this time between Yoruba and Hausa. It was one of the most serious incidents of violence involving the OPC. More than 250 people were killed and at least as many were injured as Yoruba and Hausa fought each other for several days, from October 15 to 19, 2000; thousands of people were displaced by the violence. While both Yoruba and Hausa took up arms and participated in the killings, the majority of the victims were from the Hausa community. Almost all the victims were men, of different ages. According to the Nigerian Red Cross, which provided assistance to those wounded in the clashes, most of the injuries were caused by gun-shots, machete cuts, and clubbing. A foreign journalist who covered the incident said some of the bodies had been decapitated; many of them had been burnt after being killed. He said he saw at least one hundred OPC members, many of them carrying long sword-like knives.

The incident which triggered the violence was a minor dispute between Hausa and Yoruba which occurred after a man accused of stealing some goods was taken by a group of Yoruba to the Hausa community. The Hausa apparently refused to hand over the alleged thief to them, the Yoruba protested, and a fight broke out. Within a short time, the Yoruba had called in the OPC, and the killing spree began. All those interviewed by Human Rights Watch, with the exception of some OPC members, confirmed that the OPC had been central to the violence and that the killings were ethnically motivated. One man who was present during the violence heard OPC members saying: "We have to punish Hausa people here."
A Hausa man who sold meat in Ajegunle explained what happened after the argument over the allegedly stolen goods:
The Hausa men beat up the Yoruba boys [...] The OPC went to regroup, this time armed with guns, charms and machetes. They attacked and killed a lot of Hausa men. Later they extended the killing to us here. [...] They killed sixteen of my colleagues there. They were macheted, shot and burnt here. Those killed included Ali, Musa, Umoru, Bello, Buba, Sani, Mallam Audu, Adamu and his brother, another Adamu, Hassan, and Musa Mohammed.

There was no doubt that the killing was done by OPC. From my hiding place I could see them together with other Yoruba men and boys. The OPC was leading the group. They had white bandanas tied on their heads. Some were carrying guns, machetes, and charms. [...] At the Hausa Line they killed so many people, but the Hausa people also killed some. The people the OPC killed were all lined up on the road. It was a gory sight. There were too many to be counted. [...]

An Igbo baker who witnessed the violence explained how the OPC specifically sought out and targeted Hausa residents of the area. He described how the OPC led the operation: "The people that carried out the killings were OPC members. But they were joined by other Yoruba youths. The OPC were in front but a large mob made up of area boys were following behind and helping to apprehend the Hausa. The OPC were not in uniform but some of them had red or white ribbon tied on their heads. They were also carrying guns, charms and machetes." He told Human Rights Watch that he saw them kill at least ten people before he had to turn away

That morning, some OPC men, around ten of them, came to the street. They looked around but they didn't see any Hausa man. They left. Later, one man went to call them back and showed them where the Hausa men were hiding. They swooped on them and slaughtered them all. They were caught unawares. We were watching them here from our balcony.

They went from house to house bringing the Hausa men out and killing them. They made a bonfire down there in the street. They were bringing out their properties and throwing them into the bonfire. Any Hausa man caught was killed and thrown into the bonfire. It was a terrible experience. I have never seen anything like that. They were killed by cutting their necks with a long knife or by shooting them in the head.

There was one man who sells suya [grilled meat] down there; his name is Mallam Audu. They shot him but the bullet did not penetrate his body, neither could their machetes. They had to strangle him and then club him to death. His body was also thrown into the fire.

[...] Some kind-hearted individuals were hiding the Hausa men because they are our neighbors. One Hausa man ran into my house. I never knew him before. I hid him for three days. It was on the fourth day that we [residents of Ajegunle] invited the navy to come and evacuate them. It was then that all the Hausa men in hiding started coming out.

kk2027:


Lol Obi is trying to help people like you but you're too myopic to see it

It's paining people like us that understand the difference. I feel for the poor masses

Crimecity:
APC propagandist and their desperation.

One Ihordspy came this afternoon and started parading lies how Peter Obi alighted from Anap jet, despite the foundation saying otherwise that their jet was only taxing when Peter Obi was trying to leave the airport.

The little boy called Ihordspy, forgot to notice that Peter Obi was obviously wearing a different shirt from the one on the tarmac but that’s an insignificant detail to note in his desperation to please your his masters and perpetuate his corrupt APC’s agenda.

North4Obi23:
See the dying monster they want to impose on you.

SpatialKing:


Which Tinubu?

Especially now that things have fallen apart between him and Buhari... He is not inheriting Buhari votes

Stop dreaming

SpatialKing:


South South - Obi
South East - Obi
Middle Belt - Obi

oluseyiforjesus:
Kwankwaso should just step down for Obi, to write his name in the heart of good Nigerians

Can Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s ailing kingmaker, win the presidency?

He has built a formidable political machinery and is credited with being the architect of Lagos’s successes but several hurdles lie on his path to the Nigerian presidency.

Even before independence in 1960, Nigeria’s deeply embedded culture of political patronage was apparent. To date, kingmakers often jockey to become kings and kings morph into kingmakers, but no political godfather has ever become the number one citizen.

After independence from Britain, the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority was meant to become the first prime minister. The lot fell to Ahmadu Bello, a powerful politician and aristocrat known by his title of Sardauna of Sokoto. But he declined, nominating his protégé Tafawa Balewa in his stead.

In 1979, Obafemi Awolowo, former finance minister and founder of the now defunct Unity Party of Nigeria, fell at the final hurdle, losing his presidential bid.

Ahead of the 1993 polls, retired general Shehu Yar’adua was barred alongside dozens of other heavyweight politicians by the military administration. His political associate and business partner Moshood ‘MKO’ Abiola won the polls that were later annulled by the regime.

This February, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and indisputably the most influential political godfather in Nigeria now, is seeking to end that record.

But Tinubu, regarded as a master strategist and seen by his supporters as Awolowo’s political heir, is facing perhaps the toughest hurdles of any kingmaker who has ever wanted the throne.

Indeed, as President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure winds out after serving the constitutional limit of two four-year terms, Africa’s largest democracy is witnessing its first-ever three-man presidential race.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a former Yar’adua protégé and previously APC presidential aspirant, is the flagbearer of the leading opposition, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

But there is also Peter Obi, a two-time governor of the southeastern state of Anambra who ran alongside Abubakar in 2019, who enjoys a massive youth following despite moving from the PDP to the hitherto unknown Labour Party only last May.

A fourth candidate, former Defence Minister Rabiu Kwankwaso, another Yar’adua associate and former two-term governor of Kano – a huge voting bloc in the northwest – is lagging not too far behind.

‘It is my turn’
In June 2022, ahead of the APC presidential primaries, Tinubu appeared before the party faithful in Ogun state to seek delegates’ votes. During his speech, he noted that he had installed the state governor and helped Buhari clinch the presidency after three unsuccessful attempts.

“E mi lokan”, he said, the Yoruba phrase for “it is my turn”. It has since come to define his campaign.

On December 18, the triumph of Argentina’s men’s football team over their resilient French counterparts in the 2022 Qatar World Cup final was seen as a swansong for Lionel Messi. After the game, Tinubu’s official Twitter handle posted a meme with the politician’s signature cap superimposed on the footballer’s face. It was a tacit allusion that like the World Cup for Messi, the Nigerian presidency remains the one height Tinubu is yet to scale.

“Every move he has made has been leading to this point and he has been very deliberate about certain actions that led to this point,” Tunde Ajileye, a partner at SBM Intelligence, a Lagos-based geopolitical intelligence consultancy, told Al Jazeera.

Tinubu first came to national relevance during the 1993 election, defending Abiola’s presumed victory as a member of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), an alliance of politicians and civil society, after a brief stint as a senator.

After two terms in office as governor from 1999 to 2003, he installed favoured candidates as successors in Lagos. But his magnum opus came in 2015: his party’s merger with that of Buhari who went on to unseat incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan.

The Financial Times called him a “political Svengali” whose associates saw him as “deeply Machiavellian”.

Around that period, indications that the jurisdiction of Tinubu’s ambition extended beyond being a kingmaker in Lagos and southwest Nigeria to include the presidency, began to crystallise after years of bubbling underneath the surface.

“The entitlement to the presidency that reflects in his campaign stems from that long-term blueprint that has been essentially oiled by state machinery and political patronage,” Adewunmi Emoruwa, lead strategist at Gatefield, an Abuja-based public strategy firm, told Al Jazeera.

The father of modern Lagos
Tinubu’s supporters point to Lagos’s successes and insist he can replicate them on a national scale. The city-state is by and large the most viable economy in Nigeria; as a standalone country, it would be among Africa’s top 10 economies by gross domestic product (GDP).

Lagos has also emerged as the hub of entertainment on the continent, the birthplace of the world-famous music genre, Afrobeats. Many industry insiders have cited him as a patron.

Tinubu is credited with widening the city’s tax base and embarking on an infrastructure drive but some analysts disagree on the degree of his competence.

“It is clearly a narrative that seems to resonate with a lot of Nigerians … the entire idea that Lagos is the place where Nigerians look for opportunities and where economic values are being created,” Emoruwa told Al Jazeera. “But Nigerians who care about policy will know that Lagos has been a development nightmare.”

Others say the pro-Tinubu narrative erases the welfarist politics of Lateef Jakande, governor between 1979 and 1983, who laid the foundations of today’s Lagos, which has swelled from four million people three decades ago to 21 million people today.

With that growth has come notorious traffic gridlock and repeated flooding. Multiple slums have also suffered from gentrification today with little or no compensation for those affected.

A trail of controversies
To fulfill his longtime ambition, Tinubu will have to contend with his personal demons too, critics say.

Controversies about the true age of the 70-year-old, as well as inconsistencies in his educational and professional qualifications, have long circulated locally. In 2000, a young lawyer called Festus Keyamo sued the state parliament for clearing Tinubu on allegations of perjury about those qualifications – and lost.

There have also been multiple allegations of state capture and tax evasion levelled against Tinubu from his time as governor. He could not be prosecuted due to the immunity he enjoyed as governor.

In 2011, he was acquitted by the Code of Conduct Bureau over prosecutorial misconduct after the federal government accused him of illegally operating foreign accounts when he was governor.

The biggest blot has been his 1993 indictment in a drug cartel’s dealings in the United States, which led to his forfeiture of $460,000. Tinubu himself has never addressed the topic, but his camp has often refuted mentions of it saying the settlement was no evidence of criminality.

“He has refused to address those claims to delegitimise them and keep them in the realm of conspiracy theory,” Emoruwa said.

Instead, he has continued coalescing associates and adversaries into a formidable political machinery. For instance, Keyamo, now a minister, is also the APC campaign spokesperson.

Tinubu’s health has also been the subject of speculation, after repeated medical trips to London in recent years. To prove his fitness, he has resorted to strained dancing at campaign rallies; his team also once released a video of him riding a stationary indoor exercise bike.

He has also dodged election debates even as videos of his slurred speech at several rallies have gone viral on social media.

This January, his running mate Kashim Shettima said there was a “mischievous fixation” on his principal’s health.

“We are not preparing for the Olympics,” he stressed.

History and legacy
But the biggest hurdle in Tinubu’s way may be the legacy of the machine he built – the APC.

During Buhari’s eight-year tenure, there have been two recessions and the naira has shed more than three times its value in that time.

Almost half of the country lives in multidimensional poverty – more people than there are in neighbouring Cameroon and all 11 countries of Southern Africa combined – according to the UNDP and Oxford University.

There are also layers of rampant insecurity nationwide; Boko Haram and its ISIL (ISIS)-allied offshoot – the Islamic West Africa Province (ISWAP) – continue to launch offensives in the northeast, while armed bandits and separatists are running riot in the northwest and the southeast, respectively.

In October 2020, the Nigerian military shot dead an unspecified number of youths at an anti-police brutality protest in Lagos. That episode left many youths, particularly in the south, with no love lost for the government of the day and has inspired an exodus of young people from the country.

Tinubu’s campaign has tried to dissociate his candidacy from the APC’s shortcomings but has also promised to build on the successes of the Buhari presidency if elected.

His manifesto has pledged to “give economic opportunity to the poorest and most vulnerable among us”, tackle insecurity, expand public infrastructure and fight corruption.

But that has been a tough sell.

“People … believe he was a very eminent contributor to the emergence of the current administration and he is from the same party and people that are around him are stalwarts of the same party,” Ajileye said.

PrinceOfLagos:
By Adeola Badru

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday, played down rumour that he is incapable of securing votes in South-West.

Obi, who declared himself the most qualified person to rule Nigeria at the first and second convocation ceremonies of the Dominican University, Ibadan, said he would be voted for because he possesses the qualities to move the country to the promised land.

He said: “My number one structure is God, the number two is human being, and you people are my structure because you believe in me and in what I am saying.

“The structure we have today is that of criminality and underdevelopment. These structures have ruined the country. So, the question is do you want to continue with the existing structure or you want a new structure?

“If they say I give unverified statistics let them come with theirs. They cannot say I give wrong statistics, yet fail to give the right statistics.”

Obi, who is the Pro-Chancellor of the university, added that he has proved he can do the job, saying: “I make promises on which I can deliver.

“The task ahead requires physical and mental energy, it is left for you to assess who is most likely capable of getting the job done. What I intend to do if elected is to secure and unite Nigeria, ensure that we move it from consumption to production because it is the only way we can pull people out of poverty. If we can create jobs and opportunities for people, things will turn around.

“I will invest in health and education. We will start from basic education to ensure that people are educated at the basic level. At the tertiary level, we will find a combination that would enable the system to work well without our students going on strike.”

He continued: “Ibadan requires federal presence. Oyo is big. Ibadan is a huge city, Ibadan is as big as Lagos.”


Ibadan alone can compare to Lagos and in terms of population, it is huge because there are about four million people living here. This city requires special attention from the Federal Government, especially with so many unemployed youths.

“Here is a state where we can invest in education. In Ibadan, there are so many schools. People used to visit College of Medicine, Ibadan. Today, the reverse is the case.”

On his part, the guest lecturer, Mr. Peter Amangbo, whose lecture was titled: “Let Your Education Count,” congratulated the 96 graduands for their achievements, saying: “I will like to congratulate our distinguished ninety-six scholars who we celebrate today. I am super proud of your achievements, you graduated at a time of unprecedented global catastrophe. However, it is not all bad news as you all survived the pandemic, which is now part of history

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/12/obi-storms-ibadan-boasts-i-will-win-in-s-west/

Nlfpmod Mynd44

TinubuDeDrugLor:

Stupid and senseless Yoruba swine.
Who's more confused that you?

ECASH120:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Pqm6TbNF8zc?feature=share

A disturbing video of unknown gunmen in over 10 fully loaded hilux vehicles have emerged online threatening to enforce the 5 days sit-at-home in Southeast.

However, many people have alleged that Simon Ekpa the leader of unknown gunmen is collaborating with APC and Tinubu to stop elections in Southeast which will make Peter Obi fail woefully.

In another report, Nnamdi Kanu through his lawyer has advised the people of Southeast to disregard any sit-at-home order.

BlazinGlory40:


Peter Obi conducted LGA election. You don’t just post propaganda you people cool up in your covens without doing proper findings

stuff46:
When you look at the situation of Nigerian students, you will weep for what is actually happening.

Imagine the hopeless Apc dolts blaming previous government for ASUU strike but coming back to do worse.

Japa has come to stay for those who have the means but for the other 99% we will strive to the finish line.

Human beings are powerful and Can adapt to anything that's why we are moving on as we match to enthrone a government that cares for it's people.

We are Obidient to this call until this flag is raised so high.

NgeneUkwenu:
This is the structure we are talking about.

Mynd44 lalasticlala

Kyase:

Was seriously considering voting for this guy, but when I went through all his campaign speech
I discovered PO doesn't know shit
All of us go run comoth for this country if he ever becomes president

The guy’s lies and false stats are absolutely nonexistent

Dubaku543:
You are MAD my love!

natedroid:
is it possible that OBIdients and Ipob would want to start a violent riot and protest should Labour Party presidential candidate loose the election?


Peter Obi’s supporters are so certain that Obi would emerge victorious after the 2023 election and I suspect that they might feel the election was rigged if Peter Obi looses due to his popularity amongst the Nigerian youth.

I’m just an observer and I’m neutral

Femifasola:
In Peter Obi we trust
We need a vibrant, educated and physically fit man like Peter Obi to steer this nation forward
Say no to tribal based voting
Hunger knows no tribe
Insecurity knows no tribe
Economic woes know no tribe

I'm yoruba and I'm fully OBI-dient

ThrownBack:
Whenever you see evil people gathered against one honest man, follow that honest man because evil doesn't like good things to happen.

We are tired of listening to tribal rants.

Peter Obi for president, for the salvation of Nigeria and the all round prosperity of every Nigerian every where they live.

We are about to get it right.

MrRobot:
Greedy politicians. Jumping from one party to another. The youths are wiser now.

2023 we move for Peter Obi. Obi o Obi

Chidexter:
When will this tension evolve into High Tension. Nothing concern me and retarded events from thieves in both APC and PDP. Obi Datti Ahmed 2023 is my target. Nigeria needs a breathe of fresh air

Realtalk20:
Hmmm Gov Obaseki come and see your mates o

Vote Peter Obi 2023

ekukeku:
If u belong to APC & u dey condemn PDP
U still rolling in one direction, same people with same evil structure

Anything different from d usual evil parties is a welcome idea

Infact let's be OBIDIENT