Bede Ikenna

Advocate of good governance,/ Husband/ CEO &Director (Bediyk Group) and QuinBede Global Ltd. Let’s build egalitarian society.

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

Dear at Ahmed Datti, I tttt is wisdom to kewnr that @PeterObi have never mentioned your name in any fora, and in return that he deserve respect from you. Obidents have watchd you severally calling out PO yet shwd you respect. Try avoid this part so you wldnt say they insulted u.

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@tinyandagod You are affriming that Atiku that you have been sleeping on spaces to insult Peter Obi about, is obviously not going to win. So let start early enough to be blaming PO. I pity all of you sound with such rediculous tone.

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@PoloM77 Thanks to God for your safety

[PO’s MainChic😎 @D_goodybag]

Your Vote Is Your Voice.
Get Your PVC Today!!!

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

I guess at some point statistics of business managers and owners (SMEs majorly) of those viable states of the nation will be takej. So when the talk of having more viable in those areas , those who made it viable will be mentioned. They are the majorv drivers of the economy!!

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

Anambra State Gov, @CCSoludo, reportedly claims the entire South East economy only contributed 7.9% to the GDP of #Nigeria compared to Lagos state, Niger Delta and Abuja.

He adds that if these major regions & cities were to shut down, Nigeria would be affected because they contribute a major percentage to the GDP of the country but for the south east, even if it falls under a volcanic eruption tomorrow, the economy of Nigeria will not be affected. Nigerians will only see the collapse as a human disaster and move on with their lives unperturbed because the south east brings nothing but 8%.

Governor Soludo should be thanked for inspiring a necessary debate. He has invited a debate & there should be one about both statistics & interpolations based on statistical claims.

One problem with econometrics is the reduction of human issues to numbers only. Numbers do not always explain every human situation but let me begin with Gov Soludo's numbers.

He claims that SE accounts for a mere 8% of Nigeria's GDP. I will get to the credibility of that shortly. But let's examine this claim.

The SE officially accounts for about 15% of Nigeria's population. If it produces a mere 8% of the GDP - as the Governor claims - i.e. about half of its weight in population terms, that must make the region (pound for pound) the place with the least productive human beings in Nigeria. That is clearly an unsupportable claim. The numbers thrown around by the Governor are just not viable.

But, let's go further. The corollary of Governor Soludo's point must be that Nigeria calibrates its response to insecurity in any part with reference to the economic or political significance of that part to the wider country.

So, can we then find out which part the country has responded to effectively?

May be it is North-West with a reported 29% of the population?

Or SW, the economic behemoth of the country, where kids have been kidnapped & their teachers beheaded & the regime is asleep? By the way, in case no one has noticed, there are active abductions occurring routinely in 4 of the 6 states in at least the SW.

The gateway city of Ilorin is significantly shutdown by the activities of terrorists.

Maybe it is in the reputed breadbasket of the Middle Belt?

Or perhaps it is in the regional borderlands of the NE which has been aflame for the better part of 2 decades?

The Niger Delta may appear mostly stabilized but that is through pipeline security contracts to the militants, who are the cause of the insecurity there. That is not effective response; it's sovereign capitulation.

There is just no evidence to support the underlying rationale or thesis of the Soludo argument.

Instead, what appears evident is that the Nigerian state is historically dissolute. It din't begin today & it has not been improved until today.

In a country with unviable statistics in which informal economies account for over 70% of productivity & employment, it is dangerous at best & surely misleading to formulate these kinds of arguments based on GDP numbers for the formal economies.

What Governor Soludo achieves through his argument is to promote or excuse irresponsibility as a directive principle of state policy.

Section 17(2)(c) of the 1999 constitution requires that "governmental actions shall be humane". The provision before that equally requires the actions of government to be measured with reference to their capacity to promote dignity of all citizens.

That is not accomplished by telling any part of the country that they're expendable.

It is not politics, it is not economics, it is not law, & it is not political economy.

I am obviously not making an argument in support of Monday #SitAtHome & I certainly have no interest in doing that.

But when people are complaining of inequity, it is not an effective or useful response to tell them they are useless & irrelevant, especially when they are in a country that has demonstrated an incapacity & unwillingness to care.

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@D_goodybag how can you work GRV who in turn is working for Atiku?

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

Dear @AishaYesufu , you are loved by Nigerians across the board. Mostly by Obidents , everyone isn't happy but the maturity you exhibited shows sign of sincerity. You toe PO part of not burning down the building or insult those that betrayed him. We are with you and will remain.

[Aisha Yesufu @AishaYesufu]

I teared up reading this!
Aunty @obyezeks , when my integrity was put to test I passed and that is better than any position I could have gained!
The lessons from you that we must negotiate our point of view and never our values remained with me all throughout!

You have always said that we do not have a political party problem but a political class problem.
Once again you were proven right!

12 years ago, at the Unity Fountain on the 30th of May 2014 I hugged you and said to you, THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME BELIEVE IN NIGERIA!
I promise you Ma, my political journey just started! I am taking advocacy into politics and I am going nowhere! This is the beginning and until we get the Nigeria where competence, character and capacity becomes norm, I go nowhere by God’s grace.
Thank you Ma! I love you.

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@Dominic26071826 @JosephOnuorah We are not doing that

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@Chima_Obi1234 Chai!!!! God!!

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@tinyandagod For lack logical and ideqlogical context , people gather here just to tl about Obi and Obidents. How then do you intend to win election for your principal Atiku. You are paid to help him win, not go shout Obi this, Obi that!!!

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@tinyandagod Do you guys gather together on hundreds just to be lying to yourselves?! With someone with no or less political knowladge?! Does this desire the time and attention many of you claiming educated and civilised given to it?! So sorry !!!!!

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@HonNoah93 @AvrilPagon @DrTrouble8865 @EstherUmoh10 @NapoleonOnyebi1 @NigeriaNDCHQ @obirule25 @hardeclarkss @HiikyaaTor @_herbalist__ @chiasokarisam Keep up guy

[Hon Noah Ahmed @HonNoah93]

My brothers in the Grassroots welcome me this way, The easiest way to win an election start from the Grassroots, youths, Taraba state did consensus on mutual understanding, HON NOAH' AHMED remain your man, everything will happen at the Right time by God grace 🙏🏼

[Hon Noah Ahmed @HonNoah93]

OBIDIENT X NOAH MOVEMENT.
God is fighting for us

[Hon Noah Ahmed @HonNoah93]

NOAH 4 GOVENOR TARABA STATE 🇳🇬✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@HonNoah93 Love this guy!!! Keep man

[Karigwe (Prophet of Thoughts) @Karigwe]

APC will do top to bottom.

PDP will do top to bottom.

ADC will do top to bottom.

Even AAC self warn do top to bottom.

But na on top NDC una wan make we start to dey do Obidient for yansh or prick?

Una papa de mad.

#NDCTopToBottom

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

Come back again to let me have that your usual advise on @PeterObi . Tell me again how is getting it wrong, yet you inexperienced guy knows it better. Isnt it clear before your eye now!!! That PO is the master strategist?! You guys must learn politics!!!

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@SSamydee @kindwest Yes! Hence that solves numerous problem. We are not in same lane of usual act with you. History will have it that it was domiciled in the Liv ing room of @iamHSDickson before it goesnational. There comes a token sale before theain coin!!!

[Bede Ikenna @bediyk]

@kindwest They must learn in a hard way!!!