I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems.
One thing became clear:
Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem.
Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability.
This isn't about politics.
It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school.
I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education.
Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it.
If we get education right, we change Nigeria.
Here is the link https://t.co/EViU52FKFi
TO THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF AVIATION, MR. FESTUS KEYAMO
Contrary to your account of events surrounding Mr. Peter Obi’s transit through the Abuja Airport on Saturday, July 4, it has become necessary to set the record straight.
Mr. Peter Obi does not have any police or civil defence personnel attached to him in Abuja, despite being entitled to VVIP protection by virtue of his status as a leading opposition figure in Nigeria. He certainly does not have a police officer serving as his driver. Your reference to a “police driver” appears to have been based on the assumption that he enjoys the level of security protection ordinarily accorded to someone of his standing. He does not.
Mr. Obi travels through multiple airports across Nigeria well over a dozen times every week. As someone who frequently travels with him, I have personally witnessed repeated instances of unusual discourtesy directed at him by some government personnel.
From your own account of events, it is evident that the incident Mr. Obi referred to during his interview occurred on a different date and at a different airport from the one referenced in your tweet.
However, let me address the incident you chose to publicise.
KEY CLARIFICATIONS
1. The incident you posted is entirely different from the one Mr. Peter Obi narrated in his interview. In that interview, he clearly stated: “I was there…” In the incident contained in your tweet, he was not present.
If we now have at least two separate incidents in which vehicles associated with Mr. Obi were clamped under questionable circumstances, does this not suggest a pattern of targeting an individual simply because of who he is?
2. The entire sequence of events you referenced, from arrival to the eventual clamping of the vehicle, lasted approximately five minutes.
At most airports around the world, including major international airports, a ten-minute drop-off window is generally considered acceptable. Where, then, did the claim of 30 minutes originate?
Do you not agree that half-truths can sometimes be more misleading than outright falsehoods?
3. Is it not a fact that several other vehicles were in the vicinity of Mr. Obi’s vehicle without attracting similar attention from airport officials? Indeed, some of those vehicles had been parked there long before Mr. Obi’s vehicle arrived, yet none was clamped.
4. I have personally been at the airport on several occasions when serving and former government officials arrived in large convoys, blocked access routes, and caused considerable inconvenience to the travelling public, without any agency of government taking similar action.
5. Under your watch, there have been other high-profile airport incidents, including:
The disruption involving Senator Adams Oshiomhole and airline staff.
The incident involving Mr. Wasiu Ayinde Marshal (KWAM 1), a known associate of the President, who allegedly attempted to prevent an aircraft from departing.
You are undoubtedly aware of both incidents.
Where was this same enthusiasm to instigate public outrage and issue official condemnations? Was CCTV footage from those incidents also released, or was the CCTV system only activated when it involved Mr. Peter Obi?
6. Can the publication of CCTV footage detailing Mr. Peter Obi’s movements on your personal social media platform be considered a serious breach of his personal security?
Your footage established no wrongdoing. Instead, you further exposed the movements of a leading opposition figure whose security concerns are already significant.
Would you release equivalent CCTV footage of other presidential candidates of Mr. Obi’s standing who travel in private and presidential aircraft funded by taxpayers?
Should a leading presidential candidate not be accorded security protocols consistent with democratic best practices?
DEAR OPPOSITION — UNIFY UNDER PETER OBI
This is for the Labour Party stalwart. The PDP loyalist who has not crossed
over. The NNPP supporter. The ADC newcomer. The independent who cannot find a home.
I am not here to tell you your party failed. I am here to tell you the arithmetic.
Tinubu was declared winner 2023 with 36 percent of the vote. The opposition together took the rest.
The math has never been the problem. The math has always favoured us. The problem is that we ran three campaigns where we needed to run one — and the man who was said to came first in that split is the
man currently mortgaging your children's future.
2027 will not be won by the party with the loudest supporters. It will be won by the side
that learns to assemble itself.
Peter Obi is not the candidate of one camp. He is the candidate with the strongest record on the ballot, the broadest appeal across the regions, and the only campaign in 2023 that took Lagos from the man who claims to own it.
Unifying under him is not surrender. It is strategy. And unifying does not mean dissolving your party, your platform, or your principles. Your senator can still be your senator. Your governor can still be your governor. What we are asking is one
shared answer at the top of the ballot — and a shared commitment to govern together when we
win.
If you are a party operative, an organiser, a fundraiser, a strategist sitting inside
one of the opposition parties — we have a coordination channel for you. Not to replace what you are doing. To connect it.
The other side is unified. They are unified by stolen public money, but they are unified. We have to be unified by something stronger.
Visit https://t.co/VWJfhLpJZZ. Bring your party. Bring your network. Let us assemble.
Arise, O Compatriots.
Dear @seunokin,
I find it uncomfortable calling journalists out because I believe they do a job that can often pose significant challenges, especially in our setting.
However, the consistent act of allowing guests on your program to tell outright lies unchallenged is becoming quite worrying.
There is substantial evidence that Obi never sent northerners resident in Anambra back to the north when he was governor, nor insisted they be issued ID cards. Even children in Nigeria who are conversant with what is happening around them know that this only happened in Imo under Rochas Okorocha. If no one outside the South East knows this, you, as a journalist, should know.
Furthermore, Obi consistently called on the government to deal decisively with the criminality going on in the South East, since IPOB continued to deny responsibility. In essence, if they say they aren't responsible, the government should deal with the perpetrators decisively.
Therefore, the fact that Alhaji Ali Modi Sherif came on your program today and made false allegations against Obi, and you did not deem it right to counter him, is quite worrisome.
No one should appear on a popular TV program, tell lies against another person, and have those lies allowed to fly. It is the responsibility of the journalist to counter such lies, especially when they are as obvious as in this case.
Attached are videos of northerners resident in Anambra confirming how good Obi was to them when he was governor.
Thank you.
I once posted that Peter Obi built so many roads and 28 bridges and flyovers without borrowing a kobo, and some data boys asked me to show them the bridges. Here in this video, one can count up to 10 bridges.
For all you data boys who often scream that Obi only "saved money" in the bank, here is just a tiny fraction of so many things he built without borrowing a kobo, while your favorites were busy taking all manner of loans with little or nothing to show for it.
Throwback video showing Civil servants in Anambra state seen praising Peter Obi for the transformation he brought to the service and to the state as the governor.
So Warri Pikin reached out & said “Sis, I don tire to tell people I’m not the one running the World Cup pidgin commentary,let’s make sure folks know that it’s you.” We did.
A few hours later,a deal, 2 gigs & over 12k followers gained on all my platforms.
@drealwarripikin 🥹🫶🏽🌺
2 years ago today, WAEC deleted this 2016 video confirming that Peter Obi moved Anambra State from 27th to 1st in WAEC rankings, all because of that guy in Aso Rock.
Peter Obi will honour an invite for interview & speak for hours without you hearing him discuss about anybody. He will only focus on issues & matters of national importance.
But others when they grant interview, they go there & spend hours discussing Peter Obi.
When you’re big, you’re big jare.
After watching this you will understand why Tinubu’s NELFUND is an insult to Nigerians.
The Generation that got it for free, are now loaning it to today’s generation.
A DISGRACE!
Day 18 Of Running A Campaign Against Umezuruike Manuchim.
The Current House Of Rep Member For My Constituency, Phalga 1.
Won Under LP, Moved To APC, Joined ADC & Now In NDC.
He Is A One Term Representative.
Pass This Round!!!
Fulani kidnappers abducted two residents in Ohuhu community of Umuahia North Abia state and demanded 10 millions in ransom.
Instead of waiting helplessly, hundreds of local youths stormed the forests, surrounded the kidnappers, rescued the victims alive, and captured all six suspects.
The victims are back home.
A powerful reminder that courage and community can achieve what fear cannot.
This MamaPee advert on Peter Obi is super!
Should be played over & over again to our youths, parents, elders, new & old voters.
Nigeria Will Be “OK” if we do the right thing.
A new Nigeria is POssible.
*SHARE FAR AND WIDE!*