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Obinoscopy:
https://www.legit.ng/nigeria/1498168-2023-presidency-7-reasons-respect-peter-obi/

Thats from legit.ng but if you ask me, there's even more:

He was the one and only governor to have a State Assembly with majority from an opposition Party and yet survived and performed for not just 4 years but a full 8 years.

He was one of the only two governors that left huge amount of money in the State coffers despite inheriting huge debts. The other governor was Musa Yaradua (Katsina State)

He was neither invited nor prosecuted by the EFCC after leaving office despite not being in the ruling political party.

He is one of the very few ex-governors that's not collecting pension from the State.

He was one of the few politicians who drummed up support for the EndSARS movement

He's gotten Man of the Year Awards from notable Newspapers/News Media Outlets such as Sun, Thisday, Silverbird, Leadership.

First and 6th points r invalid.
Gov Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo state was the first gov to challenged his impeachment in court and won.

Not only that Gov Olusegun Mimiko of labour party is the only person to win govnorship election with labour party

bid4rich:
The followings are pumping in my head to

1. The driver need to be located to give us insight into what transpired in the car.

2. The husband/fiance need to be found

2. You can't be so angry that the only option is to end your own life. To punish who, the husband? There is something more...

3. Perhaps, it's something that may cause her shame and she decided to end it all before it come public.

4. You can add yours....

Why r u stressing urself? She was a DSS official and I'm sure the mystery behind her diving spree would be unravel since it involved one of them.

I suspect she belongs there and her spiritual husband did not want her to many from this world.

The king is highly fortified...... U can only hit small boy like Emmanuel Macron in public.

Congrats,now obi can boast of two shoes. Yeye

Shadysen:
arsenal is waiting for them on sunday
we shall gun them down!

Av Gunners finally found their voice....... Time will tell

Kurtil:
If he can work on his injury problems, he would be taken more seriously...

The guy is playing with much power,his work Rate is higher than what is expected of a striker.

chatinent:
The mask thing will be leaving sunburn lines on his face.

No, he is not using it everyday. The mask is for 90min and may b during training period

supplying Dangote coal? R u kidding me

LagosIsForIgbos:
It is the Yoruba's that will suffer it more.

Omo ale jagbajantis!

Amala mugus!

Keep deceiving urself.....If u see the way I'm laughing at this thread like I'm in another country but no am in Yoruba land.
I bought 50kg of rice at #27,000 last week.

Rishi Sunak has become the new UK prime minister after meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace
In his first speech outside No 10, he says the UK is facing a "profound economic crisis" and that he has been chosen as the new Tory leader to fix some of Liz Truss's mistakes
The prime minister is now starting to shape his cabinet
Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of Boris Johnson's most loyal supporters, has resigned as business secretary while Brandon Lewis has stepped down as justice secretary
Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith, Environment Secretary Ranil Jayawardena, Welsh Secretary Robert Buckland and Tory Party chairman Jake Berry have also left their roles
In a short farewell speech earlier, Liz Truss defended her legacy of trying to push through tax cuts and said leaders needed to be bold
Sunak is the UK's third leader in seven weeks after winning a Tory leadership contest triggered by Truss stepping down
Sunak has ruled out an early general election, despite calls from Labour, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party.

Jeremy Hunt will remain in his post as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed.

Hunt was appointed chancellor by former prime minister Liz Truss 11 days ago, after turmoil in the financial markets following the mini-budget and its platform of unfunded tax cuts.

Hunt - who replaced Kwasi Kwarteng - junked nearly all of Truss’s tax cuts and is credited with having restored some confidence in the markets. As a result, he had been expected to stay on as chancellor by many pundits.

Hunt was first elected to parliament in 2005 and joined the cabinet under PM David Cameron as secretary of state for culture.

He went on to become health secretary from 2012 to 2018 - where he faced criticism from junior doctors over plans to introduce new contracts, though he also secured a funding increase for the NHS.

Hunt became foreign secretary in 2018, leaving the role the following year.

He has twice stood unsuccessfully for the party leadership - in 2019 and last summer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-63375473

Willy7:
wow, so Tinubu left the calamity he campaigned vigorously for and even sabotaged the south for to jump to 1993? Wow, truely APC lacks sane people. What happens to apologising for the mistake of 2015? What happens to telling the govt to at least try to implement some of the things he has in his scam sheet called manifesto before their tenure runs out? And who told you that MKO had good plans for the country back in 1993? Do you know why he never became the President even after winning the election? Power comes from God, and He gives it to whom He pleases. Does IBB look or sound as someone that regrets annuling the elections that year? The hope Nigerians are looking for now is certainly not in the hands of the demonic coven called APC, but rather from another. Tell Tinubu to perish that renewed hope nonsense.

Tinubu sabotage the south,how?is it cos he sent Jonathan packing? U don't understand the game of politics. Perhaps I need to tell u that Jonathan and tinubu were not in the same party besides Jonathan had unwritten agreement with his party men that he was going to rule for just one term after which the power will move back to north. Reneged on that agreement was Jonathan undoing

U want Tinubu to apologize for 2015 mistake. Which mistage abeg? For campaigning for Buhari? U must be kidding. Do u realize Buhari is still the GCFR,oh! u want him to call his boss a mistake? U want him to demolish a house built with his sweat?
If Buhari want to pick any idea from the manifesto he is free,even Atiku or Obi can do that if they accidentally win the next general election,u don't expect tinubu to stock his idea in Buharis throat.

U also asked if Abiola meant well. U can ask the elders around about the general believe of Nigerian concerning the hope'93.
Ask about the pre-election events, election and the post election protest and crisis

CheapHomes1:
it still doesnt answer the questions? its barely 7yrs,why renewing? Isn't it supposed to be greater hope or sustained hope? Why renew? Isn't that making mockery of the plight of Nigerians? Does Nigerians need renewed hope from her captors or from a deliverer?

Did u hear anything like hope as slogan in the past 7yrs? It was all about change and next level.
If u were around in 1993 u will understand better. Nigerians believed MKO would turn Nigeria to England. The hope and spirits were lifted to heaven. Almost everyone voted for MKO and he won with land slide that elections was adjudge the most free and fair election in the history of Nigeria.
After about 30yrs the hope is lost, youth av lost the trust in Nigeria project,no commitment again everyone want to leave the shore of this country.
Now Tinubu been one of the MKO foot soldier in that era want to bring back the spirit of greatness and togetherness. He believed the1993 HOPE is all we need now and has to be renewed

CheapHomes1:
He didnt understand that's why he asked you. Instesad of you to respond accordingly, you say it is antagonism.

its barely 7yrs,why renewing? Isn't it supposed to be greater hope or sustained hope? Why renew? Isn't that making mockery of the plight of Nigerians? Does Nigerians need renewed hope from her captors or from a deliverer?

If u were around in 1993 u will understand better. The dashed HOPE'93 is what tinubu is trying to renew.

Oyinbos and lil liver. Many of them r like African players making debut. Just give them ball and they will pass is to the next player....don't want to loose possesion
I believe their is a problem or secret these ppl r not telling the world.

Waiting for NLC and TUC means Obi is not prepared.
We av less than 5months to general election and Obi manifesto is not ready,this man is just catching cruise,he does not know what to do with power he is asking for.
Campaigns has started already, which time does he has to read the manifesto prepared by those bodies
Even if he accidentally becomes the president,he will still need them to implement it for him.

If u r tired of ur marriage and want to send ur wife on loan just open a beer parlour for her.

kettykin:
What then happens to Yusuf, so some Northerners have apathy towards Peter Obi because of Biafra but have no apathy towards Atiku, kwanwaso because of bandits, Boko Haram, herdsmen.

I still think the problem of Nigeria is largely ignorance and partly unlearned affliction arising from unleashed tribal fears and hatred. This is not resolved amicably then one day Russia Vs Ukraine will happen here

U sound like u r more intelligent and liberal than the northerners but u excluded religious bigotry and intolerance which r ur problems from list.

t’s sad to see how Governor Peter Obi of Anambra has made himself a bewildering figure. That a man whose political stock was once solid would so abjectly fail to rise to people’s expectations is – there’s no other way to put it – a matter of profound tragedy.

It’s sad to see how Governor Peter Obi of Anambra has made himself a bewildering figure. That a man whose political stock was once solid would so abjectly fail to rise to people’s expectations is – there’s no other way to put it – a matter of profound tragedy.

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Mr. Obi rose to the nation’s admiration when he rejected all entreaties to forego the gubernatorial mandate that the people of Anambra had given him in 2003, and which the PDP and its candidate, Chris Ngige, had usurped. Spurning misguided pleas to “leave everything to God,” he sought the reclamation of his mandate with a stubbornness that was refreshing to encounter in a Nigerian politician. In the end, he (and the people of Anambra) secured victory. His profile rose even further when he persuaded the Supreme Court to dismiss Andy Uba, a former presidential aide, from Government House, Awka. Mr. Uba, thanks to Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu, had been enthroned as Anambra governor.

Given his history, Mr. Obi’s political currency ought to lie in how jealously he guards his reputation as an espouser and defender of electoral integrity. Instead, with former Information Minister Dora Akunyili as his accomplice, Governor Obi has all but wasted this particular currency. And he has squandered this resource, paradoxically, in pursuit of power by all means. This particular obsession has magnified the governor’s shockingly small-minded statecraft.

For a man who has been a victim of electoral fraud, Mr. Obi’s conduct in the April 9 National Assembly elections is, quite simply, appalling.

Let’s begin with the campaigns. Mr. Obi and his team of handpicked candidates had entered the campaigns on a huge deficit. The governor’s political crisis was self-inflicted.

First, the governor’s party, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), had alienated party faithful by handing its tickets to elements that had just landed – expediently – from the PDP planet. As I wrote here a few weeks ago, Mr. Obi (along with APGA’s chairman, Mr. Victor Umeh) betrayed Anambra when he invited Chuma Nzeribe, an unpalatable political figure, to take one of the party’s senatorial tickets. Mr. Nzeribe was a prominent – and to this day unapologetic – member of the cabal that was empowered by former President Obasanjo to turn Anambra into what I once called a theater of absurdity.

It was bad enough that APGA fielded the likes of Nzeribe. That treachery was then compounded by the fact that, before choosing the PDP turncoats, the party had collected steep fees from longtime party members interested in the various elective posts. Is it not repellent conduct to collect fees from would-be candidates when the party’s plan was to embrace an all-PDP slate?

What’s more, Mr. Obi’s political capital in the state had become terribly meager. In the state’s governorship election of February 2010, many Catholic priests had made the deplorable blunder of proclaiming from the pulpit that Mr. Obi was the beloved political son both of God and the Pope. But soon after the election was concluded, many of Mr. Obi’s ecclesiastical supporters began to regret ever championing him. They suddenly beheld a man who is in the main self-absorbed, with scant concern for the well being of the governed. As I write, medical doctors as well as judiciary workers in the state have been on strike for several weeks. Yet, a governor who was sold to voters as commissioned by God and the pope has not deigned to enter into serious negotiations in order to resolve issues. Does the governor derive perverse pleasure from watching patients go through agonizing pain and even death because he’s too preoccupied to talk with striking doc? How about the fact that he’s treated with disdain the state workers’ demand for the implementation of minimum wage standards?

If his nonchalance towards striking workers is ghastly, the way he conducted the campaigns for his legislative candidates was unbecoming of a man and governor. In fact, I was so ashamed of the governor’s reported utterances that I made efforts to ring him up and tell him that he ought to know better.

Several witnesses told me how, at campaign stumps with Mrs. Akunyili, Governor Obi told his audience not to vote for Mr. Ngige because the man is too short. Then he permitted campaign posters to be circulated in which the image of Mr. Ngige, a medical doctor and candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), was aligned with those of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and former Governor Bola Tinubu. By contrast, the governor’s candidates were lined up with the late Owelle Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ikemba Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. The sordid idea was to portray Ngige as belonging to a “Yoruba team.”

It beggars belief that a governor, any governor, would see fit to make his opponent’s height a campaign issue. Such an untoward focus on somebody’s physique is utterly immature and speaks to a bankruptcy of ideas. Does it mean that Mr. Obi believes a person’s height to correlate to ability? Does he consider himself more intelligent, more capable or morally astute than everybody who’s shorter than he? For that matter, does he believe himself to be inferior to all taller people? For if height is a criterion of stellar leadership, then we must wonder how Mr. Obi became a governor. Alas, Anambra boasts many, many men and women who are taller than he is.

It is similarly appalling that a governor who reportedly has ambitions for higher political office could not restrain himself from disparaging Mr. Ngige as a Yoruba candidate. Even if we accepted the silly argument that the ACN was a Yoruba party – so what? Is the governor allergic to forging political alliances with the Yoruba? Is he not aware that such appeals to base, ethnic sentiments would return to haunt him if he ever seeks to be a political player at the national level? At any rate, was Mr. Obi not chastened by the fact that the ACN is sweeping the southwest and making inroads elsewhere in the nation, while he and his cohorts have left APGA bereft of electoral prospects anywhere? If any proof is needed, it suffices to see how Andy Uba trounced Obi’s man, Chuma Nzeribe.Campaigning for Mrs. Akunyili, Governor Obi often reached for cheap blackmail. He threatened to deny, or pull projects as political appointments from communities that failed to vote for his candidates. In making these threats, he forgot that the people hired him for the job – and that he serves at their pleasure.

Apparently, the people of Anambra were determined to take the risk. Most of the governor’s candidates were thrashed. Many people in Anambra are certain that Mrs. Akunyili, the candidate most after the governor’s heart, was also decisively defeated. The haste with which she’s seeking a re-run of the senatorial race with Mr. Ngige suggests that she knows, deep down, that she was roundly beaten on April 9. It would amount to a monumental injustice to the voters of Anambra to revisit an election that became competitive only after the shameless manipulation that took place in Anaocha Local Government Area. The APGA team should not be rewarded with an undeserved re-run. INEC chairman Attahiru Jega should insist that the investigative panel he set up deploy forensic technology to probe the votes in Anaocha. I believe such a test would unmask a narrative of stuffed ballots.

It’s odd and disturbing that Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Anambra, would appoint Charles Esinone, a professor of pharmacy, as the new returning officer for the Anambra Central senatorial zone. The fact that Mr. Esinone and Mrs. Akunyili were colleagues in the same department at the University of Nigeria casts serious doubt about the returning officer’s impartiality.

Mr. Obi’s less than inspiring performance as a governor is, ultimately, responsible for his candidates’ electoral misfortunes. Rededicating himself to the service of the people of Anambra – rather than gubernatorial threats to his employers and obtuse politicking – is the only way to rebuild his tarnished political career.
https://saharareporters.com/2011/04/18/peter-obi-akunyili-and-political-folly

Nyamuri:
Yes! And I hope once Tinubu wins, he will reserve a slot for El-Rufai and Gaduje.. they are competent

They av a bigger plan which is 2030. Presidency is going back to north after BAT

Wow! See my guy. Happy to see his face again.welcome back bro

NaijaRoyalty:
After paying heavily for their release

You try Mr commander in chief

Who cares. All we want to hear is,they av been released. Imagine somebodys father,mother, son,husband, wife....away for months without assurance of coming back

Troublemaker111:
You remained a neophyte in Oyo politics. I blame myself having the time to interact with you kid Go play with sand

Lol. U need to go back to the person who told u the story and ask for details.
The person might tell u Seyi Makinde is one of the auxiliary boys

Troublemaker111:
You are a neophyte in Oyo politics, go ask your elders about Elewe Omo death

So it is elewe omo's death that make senate majority leader one of Tokyo boys. U must be a genius...kids have taken over nairaland

yemite100:
This teslim folarin na tout and not a better candidate for APC in Oyo state, he is one of Tokyo Bois during Akala regime..
He bought transformer for Muslim odinjo and Oremeji when he contested for governor under PDP. immediately he lost the polling unit he told his boys to go and remove all the transformer.
You are a failure already, your governorship ambition is dead on arrival.
seyi le kan siii

How is Teslim(senate majority leader) one of the Tokyo boys?

Antyislam:
, I don't hate Yorubas but I hate Tinubu for running on a Muslim Muslim ticket, if is you will say worst than this on Christian Christian ticket

Pls don't bring that religion nonsense to Yoruba land we r not bigot like u guys.
Go to ondo,ekiti and osun we av Christian/Christian ticket and nobody make noise about it.
Keep ur religion sentiment in ur region. We don't care if it is pagan pagan

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Saturday, left Nigeria for London, the United Kingdom.

Tinubu and Shettima decided to take a break to prepare them for campaigns.

Tinubu and Shettima’s trip to London coincided with that of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who also travelled to London with his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, on Friday.

According to the schedule released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, campaigns for the presidential election will begin on September 28.

When contacted on Sunday, the Director of Media and Publicity for Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, confirmed that his principal took a break.

“He only took a week break for vacation,” he said.

He added that Tinubu’s campaign might begin on October 8.

“Although the campaign will flag off on October 8, we will kick off the stipulated September 28 date with a prayer in all the APC branches nationwide.

“After committing the day to God, we will embark on road work in Abuja. However, I am sure the policy document will be ready before October 2,” he said.

One million-man march
Meanwhile, a Tinubu’s support group, the City Boy Movement, in collaboration with the National Coalition Group said they planned to embark on a one-million-man solidarity march to launch his campaign.

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the group’s media sub-committee secretary, Shehu Yahaya.

Themed ‘One Million Man-March for Tinubu-Shettima Presidency: A walk for good governance,’ the march is slated for September 28.

The statement read in part, “The solidarity march will kick off at the Unity Fountain Maitama, Abuja, with many party leaders, young All Progressives Congress stakeholders and a host of celebrities gearing up to attend.

“The one million-man March is organised to bring all the APC and Tinubu/Shettima support groups across the country together for familiarisation and preparation for the forthcoming general elections. We believe that with the collective support of all the groups, we will sail our competent candidature of Tinubu-Shettima to the presidency come 2023.”

The Chairman of the APC National Coalition Group, Francis Shoga, also, in a statement, disclosed that the proposed one million-man march would harmonise all support groups for effective coordination ahead of the elections.

Don27tiky:
Muslims especially in the north will never accept a Christian/Christian ticket. They won’t get a single vote from them. But some of them including some foolish Christians like Uzo kalu are canvassing for it. It is indeed demonic and should never be accepted by any Christian

If a xtian president emerge from north would south east allow a Muslim Igbo to emerge as VP

ceragon123:
This is real. This man is not joking even though many might think he is joking and justifying the agbado statements. I have friends like this in my circle who are smart and sitting at home due to ASUU strike that supports Tinubu and Buhari.

I asked one, how come we are not seeing videos of BAT talking and engaging people like PO is doing? He replied and said that BAT is a masquerade.

Up till now, I still can't understand. I know mmawu(masquerade) and I know we are talking about the Presidency of Nigeria.

I just love expressive people and nairaland have real people that will shock you with thier level of temperament and personal opinions or views.


This country go better so? Na so we go just dey dey?

Maybe it's not time yet. Not yet Uhuru.

All these interviews that Obi granting is what we call initial gra-gra. He is showing that among the 3major aspirants he not experienced.
This is the best time to strategize and plan for the rigorous exercise of campaigning round the 36 states.
Everyone of them is going to be overwhelmed by questions from journalist and invitations from diff media houses.
So why running around like headless fowl and keep disappointing ur fans b4 the commencement of compaign

descarado:
Gbam!

I love this man.

His only daughter got married July. No noise.

No excessive dubai party or peckham party. We steal money to party like drug balons and yahoo boys. Public funds.

We should publicly execute these people and their goons.
They have made us laughing stock of the world.

This shows Obi is not charismatic, he is a bad leader. Imaging an ex gov,8yrs gov for that matter celebrating daughter weeding on a low key.
Where r the commissioners that worked with him,his aids and political associate. He does not need to spend a dime those ppl should be able to get it done without calling on them.
One gud turn deserves another.
This is africa, if u r gud ppl will swarm around u; ur siblings, cousins, even ur driver will make donations is kind,gift and cash for a day like that.

Its a peaceful protest.lol

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Advocate500:
Tinubu miscalculated, naturally Tinubu votes suppose to come from southern region, but he chose hatre against the south in support of the north for his imaginary 15million votes,when you have the likes of kwankwaso and Atiku who are more Muslim than you.

Tinubu vote can only come from southwest and not south because south south and south East av not recovered from Johnathan lost in 2015. Even Pope can't make them vote for Jagaban.