Unscrupulous adventurer. Politics without bitterness.. Advocate for justice and equity...
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Who invited this fellow??
Good day, Mr. Peter Obi.
While accountability is essential in every democracy, it must be grounded in facts, fairness, and a proper understanding of the challenges facing our nation. Criticism is welcome, but selective outrage and politically convenient narratives do little to advance the national conversation.
The removal of fuel subsidy, increased government revenue, and borrowing should not be discussed in isolation from the economic realities and reforms required to reposition Nigeria for sustainable growth.
The N15.8 trillion cited as subsidy savings, for instance, should not automatically be treated as money sitting in a government account waiting to be distributed. Similarly, borrowing is not inherently evidence of failure. What matters is whether borrowed funds are responsibly utilised, whether investments deliver measurable benefits, and whether the debt remains sustainable.
On electricity, insecurity, education, healthcare, and poverty, nobody is suggesting that Nigeria’s problems have disappeared. These are longstanding national challenges that require sustained investment, institutional reforms, and collective responsibility. But it is equally unfair to suggest that meaningful progress should be dismissed simply because the work remains unfinished.
Accountability must be a two-way street. Those demanding answers from the President should equally acknowledge the complexities of governing a country as diverse and challenging as Nigeria. The same standards of scrutiny should apply to state governments, local governments and every institution entrusted with public resources.
Mr. President has a responsibility to communicate his administration’s achievements, challenges, and plans more effectively. However, Nigerians also deserve a national conversation that recognises progress where it exists, identifies failures honestly, and avoids reducing governance to political score-settling.
Nigeria needs constructive criticism, not selective outrage. We need facts, not exaggerations; solutions, not sensationalism; and accountability that serves the national interest rather than partisan convenience.
A New Nigeria is possible, but it must be built on honesty, fairness, collective responsibility, and an appreciation of the difficult reforms required to move our country forward.
Bashir Ahmad, OON
National Director,
Media Monitoring & Rapid Response
City Boy Movement.
Elele Mahmud retweeted
We need to really amplify this..
Up till this moment there is no Voters register displayed anywhere in Nigeria....
And the reason is simply because some names have been removed from their register.....
you'd be surprised that there would be no vote to defend because the machine won't be able to read cards of names that have already been removed...
Opposition and NDC should start amplifying this before it's too late..
It is only when you are able to vote, that you can protect the votes
You can say that again!
A patriot and a nationalist. Wasn’t worse than other military leaders, just had bad press and refused to yield to neocolonialism.
Elele Mahmud retweeted
Prof, where is Emeka Chikelu now? He was an epitome of professionalism. He was greatly admired because of his values and good upbringing. We need him now in Nigeria as a role model to the youths.
Elele Mahmud retweeted
The number 1 position will NEVER be given to the South East or South South as long as Nigeria exist in it's current form.
We need to "fight" for it like we're fighting for our independence.
Johnathan got it by 'luck' or you can call it 'grace'.
Vote & defend your vote.
What if for circumstances beyond his control, PBAT is unable to run for the 2027 general elections, what will/should happen in APC & the SW Zone;
1. God forbid!/When we get to that bridge we will cross it.
2. Remi Tinubu to be automatically adopted by the party as candidate.
Elele Mahmud retweeted
Obi is the prince walking unarmed into a den of wolves, demonstrating that the ultimate tragedy of modern governance is not the absence of good men, but the collective belief that goodness is an evolutionary disadvantage.
He forces the electorate to ask a fundamental question of virtue ethics: Have we so thoroughly compromised our character that we mistake moral courage for foolishness or madness?
I have always maintained that Obi candidacy is a judgement, a judgement because it forces you to choose between what you innately know is right, what is good, what is desireable against what you know is wrong, bad or undesirable, a snare to one’s soul, an intuitively severed path to destruction but a popularism and generally accepted magnet due to moral corruption.
The Peter Obi question is an unfailing moral question, and you cannot choose to abstain!
Man should have just remained anonymous. Now everyone knows the name of the Power Minister who is supervising/superintending darkness. ☹️
You're just too much Mr. Peter Obi, just too much!
Debunking the Phantom Debts and Ecological Loan Fallacy
My attention has been drawn to trending claims by the Anambra State Government that my administration left behind inherited debts, including a ₦2 billion ecological loan, contractor liabilities, and unpaid salaries, gratuities, and pensions. This is completely false.
We systematically liquidated historical gratuities and arrears dating back several years, amounting to over ₦35 billion. At the point of handover, the state owed nothing in salaries, gratuities, or pensions, nor did we owe anything to any contractor for projects duly executed and certified.
The ₦2 billion ecological fund in question was released barely three months before the end of my tenure for the Oko/Umuchiana erosion crisis. Despite pressure to spend the money, I refused, insisting that it should be left for my successor because government is a continuum and the funds were tied to a specific project.
The money was therefore left 100 per cent intact in First Bank, in Account No. 2018779464, with a balance of over ₦2.13 billion.
It is important to stress that funds tied to specific projects or set aside for particular purposes were not even included in the over ₦75 billion in savings we left behind.
If anybody can establish anything to the contrary, I will stop campaigning. -PO
Elele Mahmud retweeted
Jakande had four years and no oil boom swagger.
He started Adiyan. He expanded Iju. He built water at Agbowa-Ikosi and Ikorodu. He put sewage plants in Oke-Afa, Abesan, Iponri and Amuwo-Odofin. He tried to end people carrying shit in pails.
Then you lot took the throne.
Tinubu. Fashola. Ambode. Sanwo-Olu. The soldiers before them.
You did not govern Lagos. You squatted on it.
One new major water plant in forty years: Adiyan II. Awarded in 2012. Still a construction site while you commission flyovers and pose in hard hats.
One new sewage plant: Odo Iya Alaro. N5.2 billion. And it still vomits waste into the canal like a public toilet with a government logo.
You “rehabilitated” Jakande’s plants until faeces ran down the streets of Isolo and Abesan. You knocked down the Amuwo sewage plant and sold the ground. Then you named an academy after the man whose work you left to rot.
Lagos in 2026: sachet water. Boreholes into a toilet aquifer. Eight percent on a sewer. The richest city in the country drinking from nylon and shitting into the ground.
You did not fail because it was hard. You failed because water does not cut ribbons the way a bridge does. Because a dry tap cannot pose for a billboard. Because scarcity is easier to manage than a working city.
Jakande built for people who had nothing. You inherited his start and turned it into a museum.
You are not his successors. You are the men who let the taps die and called it governance.
Build the damn plants. Or stop saying his name like you earned it.
Elele Mahmud retweeted
A nation of professors, a poverty of ideas.
1. I listened to Professor Femi Otubanjo on @ARISEtv and, somewhere during the interview, I stopped thinking about @PeterObi , @atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu.
2. I started thinking about something bigger:
What exactly should the title “Professor” mean in Nigeria?
3. Professor Otubanjo questioned what Atiku was selling to Nigerians: credibility, performance, ethics or morality. His answer was essentially nothing.
4. Then he turned to Peter Obi, arguing that Obi represented little beyond the South-East’s aspiration for the presidency, and that Obi lacked the oratorical power to sell his vision.
Fair enough. Those are political opinions.
5. But then came the obvious question: Does Tinubu possess this superior oratorical power?
6. Suddenly, the standard changed.
7. The discussion moved from oratory to Tinubu’s political history, his structures, his longevity and his influence.
8. And that is where the problem begins.
You cannot create a standard to diminish one candidate and abandon that same standard when it becomes inconvenient for another.
9. If oratory matters for Obi, apply it to Tinubu.
10. If morality matters for Atiku, apply the same moral standard to Tinubu.
11. If performance is the issue, compare performances.
One standard. Three candidates. Evidence on the table.
That is serious analysis.
12. What was even more troubling was the attempt to reduce Peter Obi’s political rise to a South-East presidential ambition.
13. Whatever one thinks about Obi, a candidate whose appeal was purely ethnic would not have built significant support across several parts of Nigeria. Peter Obi would not have beaten Tinubu in both Lagos & Abuja.
14. This brings me to the bigger question.
I am not saying Professor Otubanjo did not earn his professorship.
That would require examining his academic record, publications and scholarly contributions.
15. But Nigerians have every right to ask whether the quality of public reasoning displayed by some professors matches the enormous intellectual authority attached to the title.
16. Professorship should not become an academic chieftaincy title.
17. It should represent intellectual rigour, consistency, evidence, originality and contribution to society.
18. Nigeria has thousands of professors, yet we continue to struggle with problems our universities have researched for decades.
19. Where are the transformative theories?
20. Where are the inventions?
21. Where are the policy solutions?
22. Where is the scholarship changing healthcare, education, agriculture, governance and industry?
23. When a professor appears on live television, Nigerians expect more than political preference dressed in academic vocabulary.
24. Professor Otubanjo has every right to support or oppose any politician.
25. But Nigerians also have every right to interrogate his reasoning.
Not his personality.
Not his age.
Not his tribe.
His reasoning.
26. Because nations do not develop by accumulating impressive titles.
27. They develop when the people carrying those titles produce impressive thinking.**
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NdiIgbo,
I’m from Anam. Geographically located in Kogi State. Anam and Nzam which still speaks Igala, are brothers. Further West still are our cousins the Ibaji/Igala. Speaks Igbo. Bears Igbo names. Known as Olumbanasa. (True trivia: Odobo, Enekpa, Igah, Iyano, towns in present day Ibaji LGA of Kogi, are quarters in Nzam).
All in Anambra West LGA, Anambra State. In Igbo land. All physically separated from Igboland by big rivers, Niger and Omambala (the bridge connecting us to Igboland was only built in the 80s. Even today we call them, “Ndi Igbo” to distinguish from “ndi mbammili”, water people).
The entire lower Niger was once under Igala rule until the Aboh rose to prominence- as corroborated by Landers Brothers (1830s) and Baikie (1854) expeditions?
And there is nothing unusual about the Igala connection. The Abriba (small London, ndi Okpogho, Kalu ukwu na Kalu nta), the wealthiest Igbo group who control the seas and trade routes extending to Northern Europe, is Igbo mixed with Ejagham.
Igala? Like Anam, like Nsukka, Osomala, Asaba, and Okpanam (Anam’s big brother), etc, etc. The Igbo are an ancient civilization. Neighbors influence it, it influences neighbors.
We live at the edge of Igboland. Like Ikwerre, Ika, Etche etc.
And the point? Anam remained Igbo during the Biafra war. In fact, Ndi Anam were amongst the most ferocious fighters during the Biafra war (been that way since time, ask Illah and Aboh, our brothers who inhabit the other side of the River Niger, whom we terrorized in the remote past, or the Fulani who attempted entry into Anam in the recent past).
And that is precisely the point. No denial of our Igboness. No betrayal of our Igbo brothers. No abandoned property. No name change to escape Nigeria’s punishment of the Igbo after the war (like some of Ika’s prominent people, etc - “If I speak, I am in big trouble.")
If Nnamdi from Ikwerre, Uche from Ika, Amechi from Etche etc say they’re not Igbo let them be. The Guilt from betraying your brothers is a terrible thing to deal with. And people will go to great lengths to cover it up - like saying they’re from Benin. It is difficult to accept Responsibility for breach of trust. To forgive yourself and grow.
Unity is never forced upon any peoples (observe Nigeria’s condition forcing people to unite). Be patient. The Northern Irish were turned against their brothers in the South by the British. I believe the Emerald Isles will eventually be reunited.
For now remember, NdiIgbo are NOT recruiting.
Stay focused. Form a coalition of the willing. And keep pushing for regional autonomy. Our road is to Catalonia in Spain
Elele Mahmud retweeted
Dear Nigerians,
I want you to understand that only you can make this man win.
You have seen that the Minister in charge of the defense of this great nation is the Secretary of the APC Presidential Election Committee.
You have also seen that the man in charge of all the taxes you pay is also in charge of APC fundraising Campaign committee.
You have also seen over 32 governors playing one role or another.
This leaves you with one understanding: security, structure, and finance are in their control.
Peter Obi does not have any of these advantages.
But Peter Obi has you and me.
You may never receive a thank-you or any reward for what you do daily to promote him.
But understand this: if we win in 2027, you have also won, because by then, you would have restored your right to choose who stays and who leaves Aso Rock.
It will not be easy, but you must not be deterred.
May God bless you all for the sweat, the effort, and the unpaid service you render every single day.
And yes, a New Nigeria is possible.
I am Ekene Aninze, Esq.
Elele Mahmud retweeted
By now, Peter Obi would have toured the entire Nigeria. He won’t have started new projects for headlines & glory-seeking. He would have tried to fix most of your existing bad federal roads.
That man would have tackled corruption head-on! He would have invested the subsidy savings in SMEs, education, healthcare, & agriculture.
No one would have gone to the media & social media to lie & present falsehoods. He will sack you immediately! The Obi we know would have been talking to you directly. Presidential Media Chats would have been back on your screens.
He would have pumped the ₦15 trillion wasted on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal road into tackling your electricity challenges. He would have tackled the insecurity head-on. Obi would have visited Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Adamawa, Niger, Benue, Plateau, Kogi, Kwara, & Oyo.
He won’t have stopped at the airport, he would have visited the epicenters. That man would have tackled the crazy food inflation with vigor.
He would have met Nigerians one-on-one & met some of your needs. Peter Obi would have listened to everybody & applied love, wisdom, & justice with equity & fairness. There would have been no nepotism & reckless embezzlement.
Institutions would have worked. Democracy would have thrived. INEC & the judiciary would have been independent. No one would have accused the judges of bias & corruption.
Disqualifying a candidate on the basis of forgery would not have been removed from your Electoral laws. No Senior Advocate would have gone on National Television to defend certificate forgery & drug trafficking charges.
Teachers, doctors, & nurses are his children. They would have been balling by now !!!
Obi would have invested subsidy savings on Nigerians, & not on Tony Elemelu, Otedola, Abdulaziz Yari & other billionaires. The empath would have been kind & loving as a father.
He won’t have replaced ambulances with campaign buses. He would have implemented the Steve Oronsaye Report. Obi would have cut down on the excessive wastages & the size of the government. He would have dismantled the Structure of Criminality & criminal enterprise.
There would be no wealth without enterprise!
There won’t have been tribal & religious bigotry & divisions, there would have been no need for that! No one would have spent more than $9 million lobbying the White House for favors.
Trump himself would have been proud to invite Obi to the White House. There won’t have been any need to designate Nigeria as a now disgraced country of particular concern.
There would be no need to wash the country’s dirty laundry on the international’s stage.
You won’t have heard fake bishops, fake certificates, fake secondary school, & other fakes. You won’t have seen Oro masquerades on the day of election. No one would have stopped you from voting for your preferred candidates at the various polling booths.
Elections would have been a festival of ideas.
Nigerians would have rejoiced on the day of INEC Results Declaration. The entire country would not have been thrown into mourning.
No one would have sent you on a fool's errand to hold your governors & Local Government Chairmen. He won’t have gone on a borrowing & reckless spending spree. There won’t have been any need to share rice, indomie, salt, meat, garri, bread, & ₦500. He would have applied the subsidy savings judiciously.
Obi would have met Nigerians on the streets. Above all, you would have seen the results.
You assess your performance by interacting with the people. So much has happened to Nigeria since Bola Tinubu & his men seized power. Nigeria has changed, & generally for the worse. Tinubu has spent 3 years hiding in a bunker. VOTE WISELY, VOTE NDC, VOTE OK!
VOTE Peter Obi & Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. ✌️