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phr0nesis:
Pedro Pascal is successful too

I forgot he acted in GOT. Been a long time.

abduleez1:
Billion ain't billing...... 👀👀

$260mn over 5 days holiday weekend ain't that impressive. 🌚

I don't know what people find interesting about this franchise. Only the first few films of the 90s made sense.

abduleez1:
Jason Momoa just be killing it with these franchises...

From the GOT cast, Jason MoMoa and Cercei turned out to be the most successful. What happened to Emilia Clarke?

raumdeuter:
The ones in the first group will spin another yarn to convince themselves that Obi is still a saint and knows what is best

Obi or nothing.

TemporaryHansel:
Obidients are in this mess because they actually convinced themselves Peter Obi was some kind of saint, like he wasn’t cut from the same dirty cloth as the rest of them.

There are two types of Obidients.

First, the delusional ones. These ones move like a cult. Say one bad thing about Obi and they’ll hunt you like you insulted their ancestor. If you’re spotted vibing with someone outside their echo chamber, they’ll label you a sellout. In their eyes, Obi is the Messiah, flawless and untouchable.

Then there’s the second group, the rational ones. Small in number, but they see things clearly. They know Obi isn’t any different from the usual suspects. Just another smooth-talking politician in native wear, playing the same rigged game.

@kingtom it's the ones in the first category that will be looking like fools now.

KingTom:
Obidients are now sounding like the BATidiots of 2023

Obidients are in this mess because they actually convinced themselves Peter Obi was some kind of saint, like he wasn’t cut from the same dirty cloth as the rest of them.

There are two types of Obidients.

First, the delusional ones. These ones move like a cult. Say one bad thing about Obi and they’ll hunt you like you insulted their ancestor. If you’re spotted vibing with someone outside their echo chamber, they’ll label you a sellout. In their eyes, Obi is the Messiah, flawless and untouchable.

Then there’s the second group, the rational ones. Small in number, but they see things clearly. They know Obi isn’t any different from the usual suspects. Just another smooth-talking politician in native wear, playing the same rigged game.

KingTom:
People wey Debo no go gree shake don dey near him domot o

Peter Obi don carry obidients handicap.

Spy360:
BAT has used his hijack of INEC and the Judiciary to destroy opposition parties. Hence the coalition. It has become inevitable. But for it to work, Pete Obi must be the candidate

If Bat has hijacked the judiciary as you claim, why are you people bothering yourself to campaign knowing it'll be rigged?

swiz123:
You think it’s a lot of money to buy INEC over? Would have thought he doesn’t know what he is saying if I didn’t know when Zenith bank blocked his account when his principal sent an insane amount of funds for him to disburse.

Na people like you believe say Nigeria win india 99-0 and na okocha teach Ronaldinho dribbling.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Hope they refunded the 16 million?[/color]

Dey play.

liveLongNprospa:
Nobody cry reach Omojuwa since this announcement.

I hope Obi becoming the presidential candidate doesn't send him to the next realm 😭

Not trying to be tribalistic, but I’ve noticed people from a certain tribe have been crying non-stop on X since the coalition was announced. Is it by force to remain in PDP or LP? It’s now obvious Tinubu was the one pulling the strings behind all the chaos in both parties.

What's happening to LinkedIn? It's like their security has become porous. Someone has been trying to hack my account for the past ten minutes and I keep receiving codes.

raumdeuter:
Anything can happen in an election, The best you can do is to put your best team forward. The best to unseat Tinubu is Atiku as President and Obi as Vice

The worst option is for both to contest in different parties

Absolutely.

donjazzet:
I stand with the coalition. This comes at a price of my ideological principles.

I became obidient because I hungered for a people-led political revolution that would sweep out the old guard and usher in a new administration of the people, for the people and by the people. Enough of old men robbing is in broad daylight while we hopelessly watched on but it seems that dream has become utterly fanciful.

I am too angry with Peter obi. He thoroughly mismanaged the obidient movement, he has proven to be an ineffectual leader of men and politician, a gross inability to inspire followership. The failings of the labor party rests squarely on obi's shoulder. Better politicians would have grown that movement to be a political power house but what you have is everyone who once genuinely believed in him leaving him one by one. He offers no pathway forward. Yes, he's a man of integrity, yes, he's a brilliant technocrat but you must also be a brilliant politician too to get you to where you can apply your knowledge for the country.

I align with the coalition because I am desperate for the APC to leave power. We are at the brink of a one party state, the same way we feared the total domination of PDP is the same situation arising. I hope the APC is pushed out by the masses so that the leaders would always know that our voices matter.

As it is right now, there is lawless impunity by our leaders because they feel that we do not matter. I hope that changes and I enjoin you all to support the coalition on that basis.

You're a wise man.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Atiku will obviously be the candidate.

Age is not on his side. At least, make e chop one term, and die in peace and joy.

Atiku is the man [/color]

Cheers.🥂 Izzou, one of the few realistic obidients on this board.

Olowunl01:
Eh naw when doing the right thing becomes perceived as being weak, we then wonder why our politicians are ruthless.

Being ruthless is part of leadership.

Ellexy:
The key in booting out Jonathan was Attahiru Jega who seemed compromised at the time and Jonathan trusted him. This current coalition can try but with Mahmood Yakubu still the head of INEC, Tinubu losing in 2027 will be a miracle.

Flesh and blood didn't reveal this you. Weakling Gej refused to do the needful despite information and advise from top echelon of the party then. Nigerians are paying the price for Gej's weakness today.

BlueRayDick:


E reach for owner.to knack am blocking Tru tru


Ọmọ. I'm alarmed to even imagine that he even mean some of these things he's saying. Like the guy didn't know the kind of tension that was in the air in that 2015.

There was no tension or anti-PDP energy where I was. And honestly, you too dey fear. Nothing will happen. If Tinubu cancels elections or rigs them in broad daylight today, the worst that’ll happen is a few protests, maybe some lives lost, and that’s it. It’ll all die down. He’ll crush anyone that tries anything funny.

The only time something serious happens is when you fail to carry the real power players and security chiefs along. Jonathan was just a coward, simple.

Sportsweb:
That Elder guy is anyhow person. He will be more brutal and evil than Tinubu. Never seen a more corrupt person in this forum, imagine this nigga as a governor.

Only him doesn't pay tax, wants a particular candidate to win for his selfish gain.

We Just de observe

No Nigerian, past or present,including you is a saint. Stop lying to yourself.

afrodoc:
Why are turning logic on its head and doing this kind of Monday morning quarterbacking?
Hindsight is 20/20.

Jonathan did not vote himself out of office. You people failed yourselves. Abi which kind abdication of responsibility be this?

When the populace fails, it's up to the leaders to man up and take harsh decisions.

liveLongNprospa:
I think alot of people viewing how terrible they have suffered in that last 10yrs will take GEJ being brutal towards buhari as a price to pay to avoid APC experience.

If you listen to Jonathan talk about that 2015 election, be like say too many things happened behind the scenes that he was letting go. Even things that were downright evil I suspect. I won't call him weak, I'd say he has a low threshold for "violence" and was very empathetic compared to the rest.
OBJ in Jonathan's position with all that information would have not cared

Exactly my bro. There's no way obj would've lost that election. BlueRay is asking me jjc questions about what Gej could've done. Chai.

Olowunl01:
You mean being weak is allowing the will of the people to prevail? Not wanting bloodshed on account of subversion?

Majority wanted Buhari, turned out to be a very stupid decision in hindsight.

Jonathan having being a deputy governor, governor, vice president and President for 6yrs made the best personal decision, which in turn saved Nigeria from bloodletting that would have ensued. People were fleeing the country then; and nany people I know thanked God Jonathan made that call.

Baba nothing would've happened. Gej failed us.

BlueRayDick:
You have not been able to point out one thing that would've saved Jonathan till now. I just showed u evidence that it was actually APC that thought Jega was going to do Jonathan's bidding prior to the election.

Na people wey still dey secondary school in 2012,2013,2014 and 2015 u fit dey use this revisionism tactics for.

You can claim that there was a great conspiracy against Jonathan and that the failings of his government was over-amplified by the opposition APC; I will certainly agree with u on that. But u saying there was something legal Jonathan should've done to avert the eventual loss of 2015 election; I will say u are just clowning.

Fayose kor, Faronbi ni .

Good people like you will not last in politics. it is what it is.

majesticguy:
You mirrored my thoughts exactly. They were no saints in Squid Game at all, everyone was guilty in one way or another. But what really got me was how the show reflected real life. It wasn't just about the violence or plot twists, the show literally exposed a lot of uncomfortable truths.

The whole idea of watching people suffer for entertainment? We already do that in real life. Reality shows, Nairaland trolling back in the day, Twitter drags, even people posting their pain online just for likes, it's all part of the same system. Squid Game just made it more obvious, more brutal.

And it hit globally because the struggle was universal, debt, desperation, trying to survive in a rigged system. It wasn’t just a Korean story, it was everyone’s story in some form. That’s why so many people saw themselves in those players.

Even the way the show looked, the colours, the childhood games, the creepy masks were all symbolic. They made something dark look playful on the surface, which is exactly how the world works sometimes. We package struggle in ways people can easily consume without feeling guilty.


So yeah, Squid Game wasn't just hype, it said a lot about us. About what we watch, what we ignore, and how far people will go when they feel like they don’t have a choice.

That's why it stuck. It wasn’t just a show. It was a loud, uncomfortable truth wrapped in bright colours.

Superb take💯.

BlueRayDick:
It's either you are poor student of history or you have a short memory about the happenings in the run-off to the 2015 general elections.

The election was slated for February 14 2015 but it was postponed to March 28 2015 on the excuse that the security forces needed to pound Boko Haram for another 6 weeks before the election can take place.

Even though the opposition kicked, Jonathan proceeded with the 6 weeks postponement. Did gbag in any way improve his lot?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31221545.amp


If u remmeber how bad the opposition and majority of Nigerians wanted Jonathan out, u would've understood that even if he postponed the election for one full year he would still have lost.

In case you don't know, the same Jega u are clamoring for Jonathan to have removed was actually seen by the opposition to be acting in Jonathan's favor. It was after Jonathan had lost the election PDP started accusing Jega of bias.

Below is APC accusing PDP of bias prior to the 2015 presidential elections

https://dailypost.ng/2014/02/20/2015-jega-trusted-apc-chieftain/

Please don't insult us by trying to rewrite history we lived through.

There was little or nothing Jonathan would've done that would've saved him from the political tsunami that happened prior to the election

Lol, even before the election people already smelled a rat and were advising Gej to remove jega. One of such people was fayose.
There was a lot Gej could've done if he wasn't weak. With the way you keep defending Gej, hope you aren't like him oh.
E be like we go tie you flog that spirit of weakness cormot your body.

BlueRayDick:
Answer the questions and stop being clever by half.

Tell us what exactly Jonathan should've done different when Southerners don't want him and Northerners think he didn't do enough for peace to reign in the North.

You just sit down here talking as if we all didn't live through that period. I was resident in the Northwest between 2014 and 2015. When the result of the 2015 elections were declared , it was a sigh of relief for southerners resident in the north and it was celebration galore for the core northerners. Take it from me that this country would've been set ablaze if Jonathan had tried to use the power in the way u are suggesting .

You seem to be a poor student of history, if not u would've remembered what happened in Ivory Coast when Lauren Gbagbo refused to step down after losing an election thereby leading the country into a civil war. Mind u , Jonathan knows he's from a minority tribe and knows how badly it will end if his personal ambition leads the country into a civil war.

You can bemoan all day about how Jonathan was weak about the 2015 elections, but the truth is he didn't have much options left open to him.

Just postpone the elections and replace the inec chairman. Only hold the election when you know everything is good to go. Gej is a disgrace.
Fayose advised him back then but he refused to listen.

BlueRayDick:
What do u suggest GEJ should've done differently then?

1. Should he have rigged an election in which fellow Southerners wanted him ousted?

2. Should he have stopped INEC from declaring the results of the 2015 elections ?

3. Should he have refused to congratulate and hand over to Buhari when the results of the election showed he had lost ?

Look at what you're asking me. It’s like you’ve never played real politics or you’ve never been close to people who actually had power and knew how to use it. Bro, if GEJ had used his power the way he should have, none of those questions you’re asking would even exist.

iamoyindamola:
He did it to save the country, we saw what happened when buhari lost the first time

If Gej wasn’t weak, he wouldn’t have let that nonsense slide in the first place. Say what you want about Tinubu, but one thing he’s doing right is using power without flinching. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks, and that’s how power works.

Back in PDP’s time, even with the corruption, the money at least circulated. Everyone was eating. Now under APC, they’re hoarding everything for themselves. This kind of setup can’t continue.

piroskey94:
What do you even really want?
On one hand you blaming and gaslighting obidients for Tinubu's electoral victory and claiming the only way out is to join hands with your Atiku to form a coalition to oust Tinubu come 2027 while on another hand you're castigating Obi for considering what you've always proposed on this board as the ultimate solution. A classic case of "you will not let me live; you will not let me die"...SMH

We don't want obi to decamp if he doesn't get the ticket.

iamoyindamola:
Abi the devil in pdp throw money around with the country moving in slow pace, but this APC hoard everything for their own benefits while the country bleed massively in every hole
If it's possible for APC to start limiting the number of times we breathe they will do it

Gej is responsible for this. I hate weak men with passion, if he had balls, we wouldn't be here today.

diggz:
RIP PDP! Although you were far from a perfect political party, I’m sure the general populace would agree that we were better off in your hands. Omo…. na all man to him yard things now.

Wike should eat PDP.

semid4lyfe:
Your take dey gba as usual and I've come to accept that's you. But biko, try exercise better oversight over your AI. At least, remove the em dashes —

You're welcome.

Anything that you can't relate with or don't agree with is gba.
Btw, even if I use AI —it's none of your business. The thoughts don't belong to AI, I wrote them myself but just polished it a little with AI. Nothing special.
Also note that: — is not a sign that a post was tempered with AI. Last response to you on this thread. Cheers.