FSBoperator: Every morning I will be bumping this thread till 2031 AD.
Why not? Even a drug criminal called Amoda Ogunlere Tinubu is currently your president talk less of someone like Obi with no stains, Igbo politicians are not into crimes like our neighbors from the South West.
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, will turn 62 on Wednesday.
The former Anambra State Governor has said he does not intend to celebrate his birthday, but this has not quietened the buzz around him.
Some social media users have dug up a newspaper publication from 2013 claiming Obi was 50 at the time, thus creating the impression that he earlier falsified his age or is doing so now.
The news report was shared on Tuesday by Uche Rochas, a Twitter user, and placed side by side with a screenshot of Obi’s tweet stating he had no intention of celebrating his birthday. Rochas’ tweet ends with “Which one should we believe?”
VERIFICATION: According to Obi’s Wikipedia page, he was born on July 19, 1961, and became governor in 2003 at the age of 42. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi#:~:text=On%2017%20March%202014%20Peter,Peoples%20Democratic%20Party%20in%202014.
This would mean that in 2013 he should have been 52, not 50 as the newspaper article claimed, and 62 in 2023 as Obi now says.
FIJ made further checks and found a 2011 article published by All Africa.
The article published on July 20 with the headline ‘Why I’ll Not Celebrate My 50th Birthday — Obi’ credited Obi with speaking with newsmen a day earlier, and saying his birthday did not come up during a meeting with his commissioners.
This story came two years before The Nation’s, and there are no records to show Obi falsified his age or recorded two different birth dates.
FIJ also found a news article by CKN News in 2013 correctly reporting Obi’s age as 52 at the time.
CONCLUSION: The article by The Nation newspaper in 2013 erroneously reported Obi’s birthday as his 50th.
VERDICT: The claim that Obi was 50 in 2013 is false.
cybertruss: Tinubu is really playing powerful soccer with Nigerians. It seems that no one in Nigeria can stand him (NLC, TUC, etc). When he removed subsidy and introduced palliative(goal number 1), many clapped for him. He later increased the fuel prize which was never expected (goal number 2). The entire nation have not been able to take the ball at the back of Tinubu's net. 10 minutes into the first half
Tinubu 2: Other Nigerian Citizen 0
Some citizens are preparing the judiciary but from history, the judiciary have never assisted it's citizens. Will the current judiciary find the back of the net .Time will tell.
Tinubu is not smart but a phuul who thought Lagos is Nigeria, he is confused man.
Razgas: my point is...let's keep information on this topic accurate. It might be hard but it helps our cause. For instance you said our GDP is 49 billion. If our population is 30 million as you also said, then how's our per capita GNI 3000? Little issues like this are being observed by people
When you finish your gibberish don’t forget to close the thread, both of you are not Igbos. Be proud of your origin
Happiness17: This criminal doesn't even know that Imo state is among the Niger Delta states!!
You're a criminal and oil thief!!! What happens to calling Emefiele a Niger Deltan Why bring in IPOB to it?
Thunder fire you animal
Those animals from the Waste south are very stupid and senseless, if only the south south understand they all see them as Igbos, actually these people are the same with Hausa Fulanis, you can see where their royalty lies.
They are nothing but slave to core Northern Nigeria and they are willing to do anything to appease them. Useless set of people
FacilitatorLekk: Oil is owned by Niger Delta, south south, not Igbo or ipob. Ole. Are you a kid or just being mischievous!
Niger Delta, south south is responsible for 80% of our oil output, check the data. Unity beggar, south south is not south east.
"The majority of crude oil production in the country comes from the Niger Delta, with Edo and Bayelsa being the only other significant producers. The Niger Delta region has a long history of oil production, dating back as early as the 1950s.
Some 2 million barrels (320,000 m3) per day are extracted in the Niger Delta, with an estimated 38 billion barrels of reserves"
Stop capping boy, empty basket always make loud noise, na Niger Delta people fit make noise say they are important not you.
Is Godwin Emefiele not from Niger Delta? Honestly your people is the reason why Nigeria is in this situation. Everything is wrong with your people.
akpumping7720: E be like say something is wrong with that your cone head, did I mention Igbo in my write up abi why are you people so unfortunate like this? If you do good, do you still need to feel guilty?
Wretched pig like you want to be noticed, Ewedu has blocked your brain. Useless bigot
FreeStuffsNG: Those ones have done far worse! It's obvious you don't know them. Go and read of how sensitive intel is being posted to Mali for the past 10 years in error and FBI is yet to fix the issue. That they are white doesn't mean they are better than you so don't let low self esteem destroy you please. If this news is true then DSS has seen dem finish and deliberately calling them out. The IPOB lawyer has been called out. Nothing unprofessional in exposing unpatriotic elements. The courts did same by imposing huge fines on those IPOB lawyers who brought frivolous suits to court to stop the swearing in of my President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
You are nothing but a bigot, you don’t know time is catching up with you guys , you will soon get what you are looking for and remember your people are cowards but like to talk a lot like women. I spit on your head
DoTheNeedful: Obidients who mostly claimed that Wole Olanipekun like to win court cases with technicality and not substance are the ones trying to use every technicality to get Tinubu out of the way.
One thing is clear, Obidients hate Tinubu with passion. They just want him out of the way. I thought this was about proving that Obi won. If Obi actually, I pray that he's declared as winner by the court. The way I am seeing things, Obidients just want Tinubu out for reasons best known to them. Most of them would prefer Atiku to be winner than Tinubu.
I don't think it's about hate, I think it has to do with thugs beating people in Lagos unless you are a yoruba and rigging ...... go to court, it's a stupid statement. Politics in Lagos for the past 2 decades is a disgrace to democracy, who built it that way ... Tinubu. Everything about that man smells thuggish. I am not a fan
THE IJEBU There are dozens of different Ijebu groups and there was never a time when they were all under the Awujale. The claim that THE IJEBU Neo not trace ancestry to IleIfe is false if indeed the Awujale said so he can only speak for Ijebu Ode
Enough of your lies, who do this to you guys ? Ile-Ife, Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu Imosan and the rest are one, maybe you need to be in Ijebu-ode during Agemo festival, you see all these dozens of different Ijebu groups you are talking about are all there with their masquerades representing each villages at Fidipote round about. quit reading propaganda history, I am not omo Ijebu but i know a lot about them and I can speak Ijebu Language
Christistruth00: The Awujale himself who told you the Story is of Oyo Ancestry
it was because he didn't like the fact that Alaafin was above him in the Oba hierarchy that he came out with that
pre Oduduwa histrory
The first Awujale was an Oyo Ilari ( Palace Official) who was sent by the Alaafin to Settle down in the middle of two Ijebu communities
that where battling each other over a piece of Territory
Because of the high regard both communities had for Alaafin , neither of them passed the Ilaris new residence in the middle
of both communities to attack the other again
Over the years the Ilari became the recognised head of both communities out of the respect both had for him
That was how the first king of Ijebu Ode came to be called Awujale ( The Settler of the Land dispute)
i would advise you to humbly apply to your neighbours the Igala, Ijaw and the Edo to supply what they know about your History and start from there to compile and truthfully build a Comprehensive History of your People instead of attacking the History of others all day long
it was the Pre Oduduwa Ijebus who were already around Lagos in the 9th Century that the Awujale was referring to as being from Sudan but Oduduwa and his Princes united all those they met on ground
The Ijebus were generally Aborigines that Oduduwa met on ground who later adopted mainly the Oduduwa Princes as their Obas
Almost all their Monarchs descended from Oduduwa
You can continue to lie to yourself if it will make you very happy, I repeat again IJEBUS came from Sudan, I don't even think you know anything about Ijebu-ode apart from what you read from that propaganda history they feed most of you. I lived there for many years, married there and my children are still there, I am not going to waste my time arguing with you when I'm sure you won't listen other than the propaganda history they feed you about Ile-ife.
stephendinks: According to the recently released Consumer Price Index report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria’s inflation rate climbed to 22.79% in June 2023, marking a 0.38% point increase compared to the previous month’s rate of 22.41%.
On a year-on-year basis, the headline inflation rate was 4.19% points higher than the rate recorded in...........