₦airaland Forum

The dangers of a developing economy being too dependent on imports cannot be overstressed. Buhari tried his best to curb this ugly trend by closing the borders and limiting importation. Now we have a frontline presidential candidate who wants to reverse this policy so he and his kinsmen can make private gain at the expense of our local production and exports. He must be resisted by all means necessary

1metre:
If we as Nigerian can decide to remove ethnicity and our religious inclination in solving leadership and political problems, we will emerge fruitful. Remember the clamor for good governance is the dream of every Nigerian, Let us put our hands on deck and elect Peter Obi so as to change the political narrative of that Country called Nigeria. (APC =PDP, PDP = APC) In case we fail to get it right this time, dividing Nigeria will go a long way in emancipating people from ignorance, poverty and illiteracy.

But Peter Obi was in PDP just a few months ago na

Reporting34:
This our lovely country will definitely be good and be the best nation among the best in the world I have a strong believed


Anyway my own now is that when next I am going for any job interviews, I will just carry friends and family along,. So what I can't be able to answer I will kuku ask my friend and family's to answer it., simply because no be me alone dey kuku spend all my salary nah

And after February next year your lovely country will revert back to being a zoo

Tinubuadvocate:
Stop lying what are you controling and distributing around the country. Mention one item that a igbo person produce?

Hero beer

rabiluhauwa:
https://www.legit.ng/politics/1508057-peter-obi-opens-tackling-security-plans-yusuf-datti/

You won't even win. There's no permutation for your victory at the polls but as Soludo said, enjoy it while it lasts

backnbeta:
The truth is that 2023 election has been turned to an ethnic fight. Yorubas will vote for Tinubu, Igbos will vote for Obi and the Hausas will vote for Atiku. I am seeing the ethnic fight for supremacy clearly now! None of the 3 candidates have anything to offer- it's all blind love and support!

You have seen the whole picture accurately

Skty:
What about other Nigerians apart Okoros?

At the very least 7 out of 10 Obi supporters on Twitter are Ibos and they are just foul mouthed nasty. No sense of decorum at all

naptu2:
The BBC's Peter Okwoche posted this before his interview with Bola Tinubu was released.


Ōkwóchè @okwoche



https://twitter.com/okwoche/status/1600148834369388544


See previous thread here: Bola Tinubu BBC Africa Interview (Full Video)

Oga what do you expect to get on Twitter from Peter Obi's supporters? That's the only thing they're good at na

Newton2024:
It's not your fault dear but that of the Polithiefcians who have messed up your mindset. That's why you think a good thing is not possible. 7000 MW that a single company can generate within three months. I feel sorry for you.

Electrical power by just wishing it? Just like God said let there be light? You Obi people are comedians

LegalWolf:
On Atiku

I am a little bit confuse on how Atiku can realistically win SE. There are five States in the SE, listed below:

Imo
Ebonyi
Abia
Enugu
Anambra

Imo and Ebonyi are both APC States and I expect that the governors will try and deliver for their parties. Even if APC will not win those states, the chances are better for Peter Obi being the son of soil. So at least 60% of the votes will go to Obi with the rest being shared by the rest (with APC likely coming second)

Abia and Enugu are both PDP controlled states. However, the governors abhors Atiku's ambitions and will do everything to scuttle Atiku winning in those states. Like above, we expect Atiku to gallantly scramble for votes here as well. The same story goes for Anambra.

So can anyone logically explain how PDP hopes to win any state in the SE ?? (I expect 5/5 for PO).

On Peter Obi

I am still convinced that PO cannot win any local government in the North. The only chance he has is Benue because Ortom will likely support him. But outside there, can anyone realistically tell me any local government in the North that PO can win? Just one

He will get considerable votes in plateau, Benue and Taraba. He will also get a few in Adamawa too but as for winning a LG, that's next to impossible. Peter Obi is just deceiving himself and his supporters. There's no path to victory for him at the polls next year

Newton2024:
https://nairametrics.com/2022/12/05/how-peter-obi-intends-to-give-nigeria-a-stable-national-grid-by-the-end-of-2023/?amp=1

His usual deception and lies. Nobody can give Nigeria a stable grid in a year

onumadu:
On the contrary he is likely to become president, and I will keep campaigning strongly for him.
We cannot throw away the baby with the bathwater.
A president Obi that is implementing pay per hour nonsense is still better than a thieving Tinubutiku.

Yeah right. Continue with your labour in vain

Just before the elections

onumadu:
I like Obi/Datti and have been campaigning for them all these while. However, someone should please tell them that the hourly payment is not good for Nigerians. Nigeria has a lot of problems, but Nigeria also has a lot of good socioeconomic practices, some of which Nigerians have taken for granted because they don't know better. One of such practices is SALARY payment system.

In developed countries, the people who get paid salaries are top executives of companies, therefore on its face value, it may seem like a good idea to scrap the salary system in Nigeria. However if you have lived in developed countries, you would see that the get-paid-as-you-work system has many systemic problems. One of such problems is the dehumanizing nature of the system.
It is a system that can easily (and often does) replaces human workers with robots.

In many cases, the human workers are even forced to train customers to use robots, essentially training for their own future unemployment.
The salary system is an inherently human/humane system that takes into consideration the workers humanity. When a worker gets sick or unable to work, he/she still gets paid in full, because they have human commitments.

In a get-paid-as-you-work system, once a worker gets sick, s/he only gets paid for yearly assigned sick-off days, which usually lasts for about one month or six weeks max. Once the worker exhausts the sick-off days, s/he is only limited to getting part payment for government approved disability days, which is also usually exhausted quickly (matter of 3 months max), and the worker is then faced with all kinds of economic problems, which usually ends in homelessness. It happens fairly often. Getting sick in such a system is usually the cause of most homelessness. You risk being homeless once you get sick!

When I was in Nigeria, and one of my kids got sick and was rushed to a private children's hospital, the nurse that attended to us had an infant child who she brought with her to work. The baby was sleeping in a small bed next to her, and that was fine. The whole place felt human and normal, and we even enjoyed the company of her new baby. You cannot have such in a developed country, but that is the point of the humanity of the Nigerian system.

Though we often lament the lack of development in Nigeria, we should always be mindful that some of those things that develop a country also dehumanize the country.

Salary system humanizes a country, while the get-paid-as-you-work dehumanizes and creates a lot of social problems. Everything cannot be monetized; some things are beyond money.

Someone should please advise Obi-Datti to drop the get-paid-as-you-work idea, and focus on improving what Nigeria is already doing right. Salary system should be strengthened rather than replaced.

We should not jump from frying pan to fire.



Nlfpmod
Mynd44

Relax. Peter Obi can never be our president but he can pay his workers in his brewery per second if he likes

FatherOfJesus:
With the current trend and development, I think these are the states that Peter obi can win.

1. Lagos
2. Edo
3. Delta
4. Rivers
5. Bayelsa
6. Crossriver
7. Akwa ibom
8. Bayelsa
9. Abia
10. Anambra
11. Imo
12. Ebonyi
13. Enugu
14. Benue
15. Plateau
16. Nassarawa
17. Abuja

States that Peter Obi can get 25%

1. Ogun
2. Taraba
3. Kogi
4. Ondo
5. Oyo
6. Kaduna
7. Osun
8. Ekiti

If he achieves this, he will be your next president.

Congratulations in advance

Can he win the majority vote? Stop hallucinating

This loquacious talkative will say anything to get elected. Well unfortunately for him he will lose

Proudlyomonna:
Hello,if I say the Church,I mean Christians.
Are you a Christian?
Or are you in the set awon I am a Christian, I am voting for Muslim-muslim agenda antics?
WE Know the Stand of Our God on Equity, Fairness and Justice, Muslim-muslim agenda is an agenda that gives weight to the Islamization agenda We have been hearing of,how can anyone Support an agenda like Muslim-muslim agenda and yet claim to be a Christian?

Where in the Bible does it say that a Christian can't vote for a Muslim? And what church has the right to dictate to it's congregants on who to vote? There are many other candidates who are christians so why must it be Peter Obi? Look at yourself

I wonder why anyone would believe anything that comes out of the month of that liar called Peter Obi

Proudlyomonna:
We are now pass the stage of saying NO to Muslim-muslim agenda,we are now at Our Muslim brothers have done their own term,it's not right for them to do an extra term.We have an existing pattern for selecting P, VP since 1999 please let it be respected.
Agreement is Agreement.
The Church will stand full time for Peter Obi.
If you allow Agbado infested urchins decieve you by saying Religion does not matter, knowing fully well that Christian-Christian agenda will never be accepted.
Knowing fully well that terrorist use Religion as a tool towards their fight for an islamic state,
Shame on You.
APC MUST GO.

What dirty church is that? Where and when did the church take a decision to back Peter Obi? No church can impose it's political choice on me

Typical of him. He's got a similar case pending in court Anyway the LP is full of crooks just like their presidential candidate who stole Anambra state's money and hid it under his daughter's name to avoid paying taxes. He will most certainly lose at the polls

He's right. Buhari did the right thing and should be commended for it.

It is biological impossible. She's obviously lying or she's managed to replicate the immaculate conception

worldTina:
Why is this happening only in igbo land


Buhari should cancel PVC next year

Everyone should vote with their thumbprint

Ibos brought it upon themselves and they should bear the consequences

favor914:
But one thing is for sure, they will never vote for an Igbo person en mass.

let's wait and see

No matter how hard he tries and regardless of what he does, he will still lose

Well plateau people always vote for the loser anyway

flejnr2:
Oyetola should go and rest, he is on a goose chase , the presidency is not happy with him and his cousin asiwaju so they can’t influence anything thru judiciary

Is that what they told you?

FatherOfJesus:
anybody can claim to be anything on nairaland dude

Your handle is blasphemous drop it. Anyway I don't expect much from a Peter Pandora fan

FatherOfJesus:
If you look at his campaign strategy, you will realize that he has totally strategized to get as much vote as possible with as little campaign funds as possible.
Peter Obi for now is working on cementing his voting bloc and he’s doing it without spending extravagantly like a typical Nigerian politician who thinks money is everything.

This is not the usual style of campaign of wasting humungous amount of money that will not really make much difference.

He has recognized where his strength lies, he knows that the Christian community is his greatest asset and that being the only Chrisrian in the frontline, he has to make sure that almost every single Christian will vote for him (imagine if 75% of Chrisrian voters vote for you, can you imagine?), hence he’s spending time reaching his potential votes by attending every of their mega church programs.
This strategy conserves a lot of money because the church does the job for him by gathering their followers, he only needs to be introduced and boooooom, bloc votes will be sealed. This strategy makes it possible to reach his voters without sweating.

That’s a very smart strategy.

Peter Obi knows that investing a lot in NE and NW will be so expensive that the investment may not be worth it in the long run, knowing fully well that None of Tinubu, ATiku and kwankwanso are going to get bloc votes there anyways. The investment is not worth it, instead you can start a grassroots program in these regions to save cost and by spending more time.


Peter Obi is brining a new dimension to how politics is even played, he’s so smart at managing money that he’s saving his party and himself a lot of campaign funds in organizing campaign crowds and that’s why I will vote for him.

Well I'm a Christian and I sure ain't voting for Peter Obi because I can see through all his lies and the futile attempts to make him look good. He's just another thieving politician interested in himself and his family's advancement. He's a fraud

And this bigot wants to be president of Nigeria. He will fail miserably

Why do our political elite have shady details of their education backgrounds when the constitution only mandates ordinary primary school leaving certificate?

Reinaldo:
Vote Peter Obi for President. He is the best man for the job

A man who hid his wealth overseas under his daughter's name to avoid taxation in flagrant violation of Nigerian law? Operating foreign bank accounts as a public official. Is this the crook you want us to vote for? Never!