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With one Nigeria, only Igbos determine who is Governor in Igbo states, and do not even entertain any external influences.

Peter Obi wondered what Nasir el-Rufai of the then newly formed APC was doing in Anambra state to monitor elections for his party and candidate, Ngige.

Peter Obi said even if APC wanted to monitor elections, they could have appointed an Anambra person or at least an Igbo/SouthEasterner within APC to monitor the Anambra election.

Yet these Igbos with this clannish mentality that does not even accommodate fellow Igbos, want to have a say in Lagos affairs?

Interim Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, was yesterday in Awka prevented from moving out of his hotel room to monitor the Anambra governorship election.

el-Rufai told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the ‘Finotel Hotel’ where he lodged that some armed men of the State Security Service (SSS) restrained him from moving out of the hotel to monitor the election.

He said:“I arrived in Awka by 7 p.m. on Friday and had a brief session with the APC candidate, Sen. Chris Ngige. When I came out to have my dinner, I saw three heavily armed SSS officers at the hotel.

“I asked them why they were following me; they told me that they were protecting me because Awka is not safe.

“I told them that I came with my own security. This morning, as I was about to have breakfast, they blocked the corridor and tried to restrain me from going out but I pushed by and went to the restaurant to eat.

“After my breakfast, I will be going to the APC Situation Room in town to monitor the election. I am being unlawfully detained here,’’ he said.

NAN reports that at this point, one of the SSS men entered the restaurant and confiscated the reporter’s tape recorder and deleted the recorded interview before returning it to her.

When contacted on telephone, the Director of SSS in the state, Mr. A.U. Okeiyi, confirmed the report, saying that el-Rufai was being protected.

“el-Rufai is not an ordinary person. If anything happens to him, they will blame the security,’’ he said.

Heavily armed security men were seen guarding the premises of the hotel.

Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, reacted angrily to the development.

He said the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had no business in Anambra State on the day of election.

The governor said genuinely accredited observers are not hindered by anybody.

“Accredited observers are moving around freely. But I am not sure el-Rufai was accredited by INEC as an observer.

“Like I said before, he has no business or any reason to be in Anambra at this time. All he is doing is dragging the name of Anambra in the mud.

“I can’t go to Katsina and monitor a governorship election. This is a federation. Even if he belongs to a particular party, the party has chieftains in this state and people of the southeast extraction.

“People should know that we have one country and we must build it for our children. el- Rufai has no reason to be in Anambra State.

“Quote me anywhere. I can’t go to Katsina State or Kano or where ever he may come from and go and monitor elections there. He should stay there”.

Basic123:
I Tell you...Sacrilage indeed

Why don't they divide their votes.

That they do not vote individually but as a clan, betray the agenda behind their actions.

They must always show themselves to be relevant.

Buhari is useless I swear.

This same indecision is what made Saraki to dribble his own APC party and install himself and his PDP friends as the Senate leadership in 2015, after a hard won victory by the APC.

Something is seriously wrong with Buhari.

This the same indecision to news that Buhari wanted to marry his Minister of Environment.

Same indecision to news that the CBN Governor wanted to contest the APC presidential primaries.

Buhari is sleeping while riding a bicycle.

Little wonder Abba Kyari as CoS to the President, was the one running the country and keeping things afloat.

If Emefiele is not arrested on the very 1st day of Tinubu’s tenure, then I will know I have to get things done by myself and pursue the Presidency seat myself.

There seem to be a pattern to Igbo obsession over Lagos affairs.

Also, why is it that Igbos always vote tribally in Lagos? It is always a clan affair rather than an independent affair?

They settle on a candidate and begin to do all within their power to have their way and determine who becomes Governor in Lagos.

It has reached a point where an Igboman is threatening a Yoruba Governor that he won't be re-elected.

This is sacrilegious.

The energy Obi has spent challenging the election result, could he not have spent it fighting for the Anambra victims of Awkuzu SARS when he was Governor?

Politicians only spend energy on their ambition.

The shi shi less charlatan is ready to spend good money to hire 100 SANS to fight for his ambition.

No wonder he so easily betrayed APGA and Ojukwu for his own ambition and desperation.

Obi is a confused man.

You prayed and God answered your prayer, yet you began challenging God for answering your prayers.

Obi suddenly abandon church programmes and began parambulating about the courts.

Hahahahaha!

Obi is now getting desperate.

He thought he would win Presidency with ease like he got presidential ticket of Labour Party he just joined without any serious competition from those who are more brilliant and have laboured over the years to attain the political heights from which they sought the Presidency.

Obi cannot tell us how he won in Sokoto or Osun, or Ekiti or Borno.

Mr man, stop wasting your time. Try again in 2039 when it would come back to the South.

You will be 79 then. Lucky number 7.

bong4:
Tinubu excelled in Academic?? It is well oooo

A first class brain who was even tutoring his mates.

When zombies counted the result, they counted Tinubu as the winner, so they quickly stopped counting.

Obi prayed and sought the face of God as he ran helter-skelter from Aladura to Moun Zion, seeking for signs and wonders.

God answered Obi's prayer, but the desperate political prostitute must have it his way, so he has gone to court to challenge his own answered prayer.

So Emefiele is now tired of dealing with Tinubu who would soon be sworn in as his boss?

What about those who suffered with the hopes that this policy and its associated hardship will make Obi become President?

They are now lamenting about how they don't have transport fare to work, or how they can no longer buy food to eat.

They suffered dearly for their evil intentions.

They laboured in vain.

Faber:
We gonna elect heartless men, who are going there to do just one thing for us...impeach the niccompoo called Soludo

This mentality you have is what made you support IPOB who later inflicted sorrow, tears, and blood on your household.

Imagine the reason a zombie is voting?

How come I share a country with brain dead zombies whose only emotional intelligence is hatred?

PoliteActivist:
Not for what he did, but for what he is. For being SoluAtiku, an idiot!

You mean the same Atiku that selected Obi as running mate in 2019?

OP can you disclose what party the LP candidate belong to as at March 2022?

I mean was he a Labour Party member 1year ago?

I want to check if it is still a PDP product that would now rescue Enugu from same PDP.

SLAP44:


Drinking paracetamol over another person's headache.

Utchins are useless and idiotic.

The people he is crying for doesn't even know he exists.

Keep crying.

Open more threads, we will be reading and laughing over your tortured feelings.

Where's my 40 year old whisky bottle again

When did you become the mouthpiece of the SouthSouth within APC?

APC is discussing their government, a useless zombie is hyperventilating.

Go and count some IREV votes to keep yourself busy.

Pat Utomi is evidence that academic and administration are 2 separate skillset.

Some excel in one (Academic) like Utomi.
Some excel in both like Tinubu.
Some are terrible in both like Obi.

Ever wondered why your secondary school had assistants to the Principal?

VP Academic is clearly distinguished from VP Administrative.

caracas:
Oh ! So it no longer about region, it’s now about states in a particular region.
This division you idiats are looking for enhh, when you finally see it, you will beg for equity n fairness…

Why are upset that while planning to zone an office to a particular region, consideration is given to the states who have not had the privilege of occupying the office?

You anger obviously stems from the fact that your regional champion could not win a national election.

Watch the majority do their thing and learn one or two lessons.

PDPdestroyer:
The number 3(SP) and 4(Speaker) has to be Christians for a balance. I don't think the man in question is a Christian

Only the Senate is politically mandatory to go Christian.

There are Presidency positions like SGF or CoS than can help balance the religious outlook.

Putindbutt:
He fought tooth and nail for Tinubu despite losing a lot of ground to opposition forces in the just concluded election. I expect Tinubu to endorse his request.

Indeed!

Also, Kaduna State has a very strong case within the NorthWest.

Kano, Katsina, and Sokoto have all produced Speakers counting from 1999. So it is the rightful turn of Kaduna, Jigawa, Zamfara, or Kebbi within same NorthWest.

I will go with Kaduna.

Nasir el Rufai will be very relevant in Tinubu's presidency.

FreeStuffsNG:
NW is angling for Speaker. Hmmm.

It is a no brainer that the Speakership would go to the North West.

Since the 1999 return to democracy, Kano (Ghali Na'abba), Katsina (Aminu Masari), and Sokoto (Aminu Tambuwal) have had the privileged of having Speakers of the HOR. It is now the turn of Kaduna within the NorthWest.

North Central should get Deputy Senate President.

FisifunKododada:
By supporting Obi, you were supporting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, my mentor. But, you don't see this because you're a typical okoro m0r0n.

Loud it for him.

Putindbutt:
Senate President goes SS, while NW takes the Speaker. I wish Tinubu makes Elrufai's request possible, he has earned it.

El Rufai is a solid supporter of Tinubu and was one of the arrowheads that rejected Northern presidential aspirants within the APC.

Ok

Greatlee54:
grateful

Corrected.

Thanks!

These menace to the society are at it again.

Is it by force to love their political prostitute who has no integrity or character?

sweetjohn:
His own destiny! this is why you struggle your life to do... To achieve a thief destiny. Bros, what about your own destiny? What about your children and children unborn destiny? Abi you sold all their destiny just for one thief to achieve his own destiny. Chai!

Anambra youths are languishing in Asian jails as they embraced crime to escape the wickedness and poverty that Peter Obi unleashed on them when he was Governor.

Kagawa10:
Nah. These entitled Ungrateful people won't vote Tinubu regardless and will keep hating!

Tinubu should rather give those who will be grateful!

You and Seunmsg are both right.

Igbos will never be grateful to Tinubu for anything if they were ingrates despite his generousity to them when he was Governor. Rather than waste a very top position on ingrates who cannot rise beyond the civil war, give it to those who do not hold a clannish and genetic hatred against your tribe and religion. So I will side with the SouthSouth who have long felt marginalised as minorities in Nigeria.

However, you need to recognise the contributions of Igbos within the APC, and help defeat the wickedness and hate of their kinsmen who are waiting to derisively greet them goodmorning in the evening. You need to starve the IPOBic elements amongst them the raw materials they use to fabricate mass hatred.


As for President-elect Tinubu, he should work with those he can trust and can depend on for his re-election.

ajog1:
All what you wrote up there doesn't fling Atiku. His biggest regret of all time was yielding to Obj plead for 2nd term
Where Obj had to kneel down, begging for another term, with the promise of allowing him take over.
As at 2003, Atiku had the support of the whole northern Governors, and most southern governors. That was the easiest way for him to ask rock

That is very true.

But also informative that some have political power due to the office the hold. Outside of that office, they crumble easily.

QuotaSystem:
You forgot Kwankwaso?

Without Kwankwaso mopping up Kano votes same way Obi mopped up the SS and SE votes that would have gone to PDP as usual, Atiku would have been a headache for Tinubu.

Obi, Kwankwaso & Wike contributed significantly to Asiwaju’s victory.

Indeed Kwankwaso play a part, because if he had remained in PDP, Atiku would have had a massive lead there.

I appreciate him.

Sai Kwankwasiyya!