chris igbokwe

Researcher, Academic, Educationist, Thinker, Motivator, Die-hard Optimist, A believer in Good Governance. A disciple of Peter Obi.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

If Service is the motive Turning the Tide in Four Years is Possible

I still find it baffling that my decision to do a term of four years, if given the mandate to rule this country, is generating so much agitation. By this feeling, we are doubting the fact that a sincere leader can achieve much in 48 months.

I have never been desperate in the pursuit of power, or anything else, for that matter. There are some traits associated with desperation, which in no way are in any of my political behaviours in the past and now, like engaging in overly aggressive rhetoric or actions to prove a point or gain attention; becoming overly defensive or reactive to criticism, often to the point of appearing paranoid.
Making unrealistic or unfulfillable promises to win support or approval, resorting to personal attacks or character assassination to discredit opponents or frequently changing positions or policies to suit immediate political needs.

What drives me is not personal ambition, but a deep, commitment to see Nigeria work. And if the sacrifice required of me is four years of sincere, accountable leadership, so be it.

Throughout my political journey, I have never been involved in thuggery, the snatching of ballot boxes, or any form of electoral malpractice. I challenge anyone: conduct your investigations. You will find no stains of rigging or violence associated with my name. I have always chosen the path of peace, principle, and civility.

Ask those who have contested against me—none were ever denied their rights, framed, or falsely accused. None was asked to place their advert materials or break the bank to do so. I believe in fair competition, not manufactured victories.

In four years we can confront corruption head-on, redirecting resources to priority areas. For instance, the trillions used to acquire new presidential jets and other unnecessary expenses at this time could have been channelled into education, healthcare, or infrastructure.

Within the same period, we ensure that the rule is sacrosanct and the rule of law is strictly followed.
Within the same period, we can conduct free, fair and credible elections

Leadership, to me, is not about entitlement. It is about service. If given the mandate, for just one term, I will dedicate every moment to building a Nigeria that works for all. -PO

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Keep them in abject poverty so that when election comes, for a PLATE OF JOLLOF RICE, they will vote you back to power. That's the system we've created." - Governor Amuneke

[Governor Amuneke @KevinblakC]

What happens if African Mentality reverses - Governor Amuneke

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

I want hourly wages.
I want Fiscal Responsibility.
I want an end to the Borrowing.

I want to see Judicial Reforms.
I want to see Electoral Reforms.
I want to see oil thieves arrested.

I want a People’s Constitution.
I want Equity, Fairness, & Justice.
I want production & food security.

I want to see Civil Service Reforms.
I want to see the NTA fully digitized.
I want to see Police Service Reforms.

I want to see rogue judges in handcuffs.
I want EFCC, ICPC, NNPC & INEC reformed.
I want my Niger Delta Oil to work for me.

I want to see 24/7 electricity in my lifetime.
I want an end to the Yoruba Vs Igbo bigotry.
Tell me your Federation Account Balance.

I want to see the men of the EFCC focus on their core mandate of fighting corruption only.

I want to see NNPC, CBN, & “Subsidy Savings” audited by reputable external auditors.

I want GDP, Inflation, Foreign Policy, Exchange Rate, Passport Ranking, Trade, & Per Capita Income debates to return on Twitter.

I want to see emergency numbers, insurance, ambulance & fire service work in my lifetime.

I want HDI (Education & Healthcare) to receive the biggest share of every budgeting cycle.

I want to see security architecture overhauled.
I want to see the end of terrorism & kidnapping.

I want an Egalitarian society where the children of nobodies will work in NNPC, CBN, NAPIMS, NPDC (NEPL), Customs, NESREA, & NLNG.

I want to witness a country where there will be no Yahaya Bello, Wike, Monday Okpebhulo, & the police threatening my entire existence.

I want to witness Greatness!
A Peter Gregory Obi’s Presidency.

I want a president who will not hide behind the DSS & Aso Rock walls. A president who will meet Nigerians on the streets. A man who will give you & I (that very elusive fighting chance).

We’ve tried 8 years. It is time to try 4 years.

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

Why are you silent?
WHEN shall you Wail?? 🤔🇳🇬

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[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

“Na we get Nigeria”

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[DGov @omoluabi1sq]

"Personally, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu called me before he was sworn in. I submitted all the details of my investigation. Over a N100 trillion naira—by then, we calculated it to be over $113 billion dollars stolen".

"I gave him the full document and all the names of people who stole and shared the over N100 trillion naira among themselves"

"I said to Mr. President, this investigstion cost me my election. I escaped assassination twice. The reason I left the country to hide when I should be campaigning for my reelection in 2023. Mr. President Sir. use the document to recover our money and build the country.
With this you won't need to borrow money from anywhere in the next 8 years".

"But Mr. President threw all the documents into the dustbin and now he is applying and applying for loans everywhere when indeed he knew those who stole over a N100 trillion in Buhari's regime."

The same men are the pillars of his government. Corruption enhanced

- Hon. Mohammad Kazaure.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Some now think they know how the North will vote.

When it’s convenient they are so quick to say the civil war isn’t over.

Yet they are the ones that preach unity.

They preach competence but when they see competence they preach racism and tribal sentiments.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

See the Peter Obi people are advising to hire PR. It’s clear that many people who follow this man don’t even know him. This was him in 2014, just after leaving office as governor.

[Charly Boy Area Fada 1 @AreaFada1]

This is the result Elrufai posted on his X- handle former Twitter. He regretted supporting the rigging of the 2023 presidential election to favor Tinubu because he was in APC then.

We all know of the mallam called Elrufai who talks from both sides of his mouth.
Now that he's been sidelined, e don dey expose dia corruption.

Abegi go sidon for duty.
Yeye dey smell.
Una father's left Nyash.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Rice, air-conditioning, and fast internet access.

I won't join the pile-on, not because I disagree with it, but because this guy's tweet has given me a very valuable insight into the revolutionary potential that exists within the Nigerian population, and it is as follows:

Whenever revolutionary leadership emerges in Nigeria, the only real trick it needs to deploy to keep the population on its side despite the usual foreign influence and interference blitzkrieg, will be to deluge a critical mass of the people with a few cheap comforts. That's it.

The majority population in Nigeria as it currently exists is not configured to understand ideological revolutions of any kind. So an Ibrahim Traoré-style, eloquent, ideologically-driven revolutionary leader will be entirely lost on them and probably won't last 2 years.

What they do understand is creature comforts. Rice, cheap high-speed internet - for TikTok, movies, and porn - and an AC blowing at 18⁰C overhead to counteract the oppressive 40⁰C humidity outside. Give them these things, and you become indispensable to them - no amount of NED and State Department regime change shenanigans will ever successfully turn them against you as long as they have their WiFi blazing, AC blowing, and jollof steaming.

I've been thinking about the problem all wrong - Nigeria doesn't need and wouldn't understand an Ibrahim Traoré. What Nigeria needs is actually a Hugo Chávez - a leader who has similar ideas to Traoré, but doesn't bother trying to communicate them to people who fundamentally aren't equipped to grasp them. Someone who knows how to sell social development and national sovereignty using the language and tactics of populist simplicity.

Don't bother trying to explain to the Nigerian why the US State Department installing a drug dealer as his president is bad for him, or why Bill Gates buying off the entire Nigerian legislature so he can push his GMOs on Nigeria and end Nigeria's food sovereignty is dangerous. The Nigerian does not understand complexity and has been conditioned to be reflexively hostile toward anything remotely intellectual. Just give him hot, steaming jollof rice with 1 piece of meat, a cheap MTN 4G 30GB data package, and a 2nd hand 1.5HP split unit AC, and you're free to pursue your nationalist agenda. In fact if anyone then tries to get in your way, the Nigerian will see that as a threat to his continued supply of rice, porn, and cold air, and will sleep in the streets to defend you like the Venezuelans did to defend Chávez.

It now makes sense why so many random Nigerians are triggered by Ibrahim Traoré's existence and popularity. His intellectual speeches and eloquently-expressed ideas, with big words like "imperialism," and "sovereignty" must be the most irritating thing in the world to them. All they want to see and recognise as a "revolution" in Burkina Faso is Burkinabés celebrating cheap internet, air-conditioned houses and cars, and steaming rice. And since that hasn't been forthcoming (instead all you're hearing is stuff about dams and roads and tractors and hospitals and military hardware and geopolitical alignments and "Faso Mébo"), that must mean Ibrahim Traoré is a fraud.

This is what I love about Twitter - access to high-quality social data and population insights in real time.

This single tweet here - from someone who once voted for, and presumably agreed with a politician whose campaign slogan was "From Consumption To Production" - has given me the sort of political clarity that people spend years and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain.

Thank you🙏🏾

I blocked you years ago and you might not see this, but thank you🙏🏾

[Chimama ❤️ Obi @Chima_Obi1234]

Obi wants to Serve, not desperate like some politicians.

[chris igbokwe @DxtinyChris]

@TheSerahIbrahim This will metamorphose into a prison one day.

Just a question of time.

[AMB. SERAH IBRAHIM @TheSerahIbrahim]

I watched in disdain how women and youths who didn’t even know what they were protesting for, were fighting because the person who hired them to protest in support of Akpabio promised them NGN 1,000 each and didn’t pay them.

Yes, they came outside to protest for “1K” that cannot even buy a loaf of bread.

After the protest, they didn’t receive the money, and they resulted in fighting themselves and the person who hired them.

They complained they were hungry and tired, so we gave them some drinks and small chops so that they can stop fighting themselves.

Well done @HauwaAllahbura for the courageous outing today.
Senator Natasha represents us all, she would not be bullied and the Senate must do what is right.

Politicians will never fix poverty but would weaponise it for selfish gains.
We need to put a stop to this madness.

Enough is Enough.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Number one, it's a great product, as good as it gets—and number two, because @ElonMusk has devoted his energy and his life to doing this and I think he has been treated very unfairly…

[Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilization. @PO_GrassRootM]

Nigerian women at the gate of National Assembly demanding suspension of Natasha be lifted.

[BUCOS @TENIBEGILOJU202]

THIS GUY FINISHED AKPABIO, HE HIGHLIGHTED WHAT WE WANNA HEAR AND THE REAL TRUTH... After listening to this video, kindly retweet massively till it gets to Akpabio and his political Halleluyah boys at NASS.

[Inibehe Effiong @InibeheEffiong]

There’s something about Nigeria that drains energy, life, and happiness. I stayed out of all the issues in Nigeria for a week plus and my mental health improved. But we only have one motherland. It pains me that this country is ruled by horrible people.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

You're almost getting it. You're this close.🤏🏿

Once you figure out that the sabotage is not coming from within Nigeria, but from London, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Washington DC and Berlin, then you'll understand why some of us have adopted the positions we have.

When you figure out that Shell Pernis Rotterdam and other oil refiners on Europe's southern and western coasts have been taking significant losses since Dangote Refinery came onstream, and that their number one economic priority for Nigeria right now is to destroy its local oil refining capacity, then you'll understand that economic warfare is real, and that allowing white people to install leaders in Africa is as good as sacrificing your children to them. Because the outcome is the same - no future for your children.

They've not even started yet. Wait until you hear that "Boko Haram" or "Al-Qaida" attacked Dangote Refinery or Walter Smith Rfinery, or BUA Refinery. Then you will see multiple serious-faced, glasses-wearing oyibo journalists and "analysts" appearing on TV to explain why "Islamist militants" are concerned with oil refineries on Nigeria's coastline. The more you deny the evidence of your eyes and brains, the more oyibo will insult your intelligence until you finally get tired of it.

Eventually, you guys will understand why Ibrahim Traore keeps going on about "sovereignty," and walks around everywhere with his full bulletproof tactical gear on. No be say him dey craze.