Peter Obi, you embarrassed yourself with this tweet about Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation.
If you had taken the time to understand the real reasons, you would have been the last person to use it against President Tinubu.
Starmer did not resign out of pure noble accountability. He was forced out by heavy internal rebellion after terrible local election losses and a strong by-election win by his rival Andy Burnham in Makerfield.
Labour MPs lost confidence in him, the same way Labour Party in Nigeria lost confidence in you, Peter Obi. They feared a total defeat, with deep divisions over welfare cuts, immigration, and foreign policy.
The UK’s parliamentary system simply allows quick removal of leaders under pressure; it was not the clean, honourable exit you tried to paint.
The same pattern applies to your leadership of Nigeria’s Labour Party. Just as Starmer ran the British party into crisis with poor results and internal fights, you, Peter Obi’s style, contributed to fracturing the LP after its 2023 momentum.
Leadership battles, defections, and allegations tore the party apart, leading you to abandon it for the ADC in 2025. While your supporters blame old-guard politicians, the truth is your handling left the party in ruins.
Using Starmer’s forced resignation as a weapon reveals more about your selective criticism than real political wisdom.
Reason why you will never be President...
The energy sector has seen massive growth since President Tinubu’s administration began 3 years ago with myriad of reforms implemented across board.
Here are 15 major milestones in the sector.
NIGERIA’S ENERGY SECTOR RENAISSANCE: 15 MAJOR MILESTONES SO FAR
1. Total federation revenue increased to ₦21 trillion, nearly doubling from ₦12 trillion the previous year due to subsidy removal.
2. Fuel import costs collapsed from ₦2.3 trillion down to under ₦90 billion year-on-year.
3. Redesigned electricity subsidy segments successfully slashed the projected national subsidy burden by over ₦1 trillion.
1. Domestically refined petrol spiked from effectively zero to 48 million litres per day
2. Combined crude oil and condensate production reached 1.64 million barrels per day—marking a 400,000 bpd increase and hitting the highest onshore level in two decades.
6. Gross natural gas production advanced from 6.83 billion standard cubic feet per day (bscfd) to 7.63 billion bscfd.
1. Commercial focus active on a foundation of 215 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of proven natural gas reserves.
2. Nigeria’s share of African upstream Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) skyrocketed from a mere 4% to roughly 40%.
9. Secured $10 billion in committed capital, backing an active visible pipeline of $50 billion in future projects.
10. Project contracting cycles were aggressively reduced from 36 months down to 14 months (targeting 6 months).
11. Concluded over $4 billion in International Oil Company (IOC) onshore asset divestments to deepen indigenous market ownership.
12. Established the Presidential Power Sector Debt Reduction Programme with an approved bond structure of up to ₦4 trillion to clear legacy generation and gas arrears.
1. Concluded full and final settlement agreements with generation companies valued at ₦2.28 trillion.
14. Achieved a 57% national metering rate across consumers.
15. Successfully transitioned 45% of the power market over to cost-reflective, service-linked electricity tariffs.
@EmirSirdam Our vote, our choice. It’s called democracy. And if you truly believe what you wrote, then you’re only talking about yourself in third person.
@FinPlanKaluAja1 These are his exact words.. ‘Unless i give you adequate reasons why i couldn’t deliver, and it convincing enough’
So what are the reasons? Legacy debt - of which they have audited and approved, Removal of electricity from the exclusive list… let us be honest.
@YemmyAj Sowore should go and be a local government chairman…. That is where his strengths lie. He can use the LG autonomy to his advantage, and impact the lives of his people.
This is how gas becomes national value.
Less pressure on petrol.
More domestic fuel options.
More private investment.
Over 3,000 direct jobs.
More support for host communities.
A projected 9% reduction in gas flaring.
President Tinubu has brought verve, discipline, and direction to an existing national instrument.
The work continues, but the record is already visible: infrastructure on the ground, private capital committed alongside public equity, and Nigerian gas being turned from waste into wealth.
5/5
Saying you will generate, transmit and distribute 10k MW of electricity in 4 years is a lot of commitment. The sort that’d cost you upwards of $30b. That you saw it in Egypt and Indonesia won’t make it cheaper. If it did, I saw it in Germany in 2016, it still isn’t cheaper.
When you are asked how? The answer cannot be “just trust me”. This is not, “I love you. I’ll be there for you” stuff. Even that comes at a cost. Love isn’t free.
In separate interviews with Seun Okinbaloye and Rufai Oseni, @PeterObi has refused to answer how.
Because he doesn’t know how. And if he ever does learn how, he still won’t admit what it would take to get those 10k MW into homes. He doesn’t have it in him to utter uncomfortable truths.
His entire political identity since The Platform platformed him is governance as goody-goody. Governance without cost. Governance without painful decisions. Politics of Lamba. Governance of castles in the sky. The governance he couldn’t practise as governor. Because it doesn’t exist.
He kept touching Rufai all through that interview as a gesture of closeness and ownership. He was extremely comfortable as he didn’t expect much pushbacks or any form of deep questioning. It was a parlor gist with one of his supporters.
Peter Obi talks based on the quality of his supporters. He says the nonsense, they hail him and he’s good. You watch his interviews, you lose a bit of your IQ in the process.
Your national league pays N200m in prize money. Was N150m until recently.
Your stadiums sit empty 99% of the time but your president should organise to build 10 more big stadiums because the empty ones you currently have can always be turned into national relics for tourism.
Your biggest football property, the Super Eagles, can’t pull a sold out stadium because most people would rather the gate is thrown open, when the tickets aren’t vastly discounted.
‘Football mad country,’ just like ‘oil rich country’ but only when you are looking at things without asking questions.
Sometimes, as a person, you exit the hysteria and look at things for what they are. Until then, you can’t change a thing.
This obsession with the Presidency.What's a President's business with what companies do with their money?Why exactly should companies build these facilities?What is the business case?And there's no demand for "world class stadiums" in Nigeria.Have we used the ones we have?