It's obvious that the biggest business for blackmailers now is talking about Peter Obi from every negative perspective. Even my solemn spiritual trip to Rome has been twisted into yet another blackmail campaign by merchants paid ostensibly to propagate anything negative against Obi.
One such individual, whose entire life revolves around blackmail, falsely claimed that I went to Rome to have a private meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu regarding a purported ₦225 billion debt crisis involving Fidelity Bank. These claims are not only baseless, malicious, but entirely false.
Let me categorically state that I have never sought an audience with, nor met, President Tinubu since he assumed office, except about 1 minute meeting at the arena of Saint Peter’s Basilica Rome during the inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV, where I was seated behind, and had to respectfully greet him, and other dignitaries present.
I was previously in Rome on the 9th of May for the lying in state of Pope Francis. Immediately after the mass and exchanging pleasantries, I went straight from Vatican City to London, and then back to Nigeria.
The self-proclaimed "blackmailer-in-chief" and others who thrive on spreading pain and falsehoods have also claimed that I own Fidelity Bank. For the record, I do not. Throughout my career, I have served as Chairman/Director of 3 banks/Financial institutions, of which Fidelity is one of them. Fidelity has over 500,000 shareholders, none of whom hold a majority stake. What this blackmailer seeks is to harm these hard-working Nigerians and cause them needless distress.
To those peddling these falsehoods, and engaging in blackmail, I offer a simple prayer: May God grant you the virtues of gratitude and understanding to know that we came here with nothing and will go with nothing, that they cannot profit from their evil ways.
A new Nigeria is POssible.
-PO
My disappointment with many of these Nigerians who’ve broken out and become global stars lies in something deeper than sound or success, it’s the fact that, all along, what most of these boys really wanted was to become NIGGAS.
Artists like Fela Kuti, Angelique Kidjo, Miriam Makeba, and King Sunny Ade once stood on the same world stage. But they carried their Africanness with pride, boldly, unapologetically. Their outlook was rooted in home soil, and that authenticity sustained global interest in their work for decades.
But today’s Afrobeats stars? They are painfully generic in their thinking. They spend money the same way, all iced up and all, dress the same way, ink themselves with the same predictable tattoos. One after the other, they mimic the blueprint of the ghetto American rapper, loud, flashy, and hollow. It’s cosplay, not culture.
They could build something distinctively African, fresh, original, and magnetic. They could define a new kind of global Black identity that starts in Lagos and echoes worldwide.
But no. Give them the money, the record deal, the international stage, and what do they do? They slip into the tired costume of the stereotypical American “NIGGA” in attitude, in lifestyle, in outlook, and in everything else that matters.
Smh.
Unfortunate greetings to you egbon eleke shigidi, olopolo lilo alagomeji @seyilaw1
Let's start with some current affairs.
Peter Obi is barely a decade older than you and before he became Governor 19 years ago, in 2006 - he was chairman of 11 companies home and abroad.
He sat on the board of 3 top commercial banks, was chairman of one - before he became Governor.
You on the other hand, started your career in that same year - 19 years after, only two highlights:
- nkro nko nko, nkro nko nko, nkrokodile
- Macaroni featuring you in a skit.
You sit there malformed facially, aesthetically and mentally - two wristwatches burdened with the misfortune of tracking how many brain cells you rot out in decay whenever you open your mouth.
"Peter Obi will never get my support" from this sagging proglotide is the funniest comedy line you've ever uttered.
In your household, you cannot even win "father of the year" - of what political relevance are you?
We're asking horned animals to step forward, the snail is waving it's tentacles.
Without the presidency, Obi's legacy will always be littered across the 36 states of the country - but you need this decaying system to remain because it means job security for you.
- a failed comedy career,
- too old to learn tech,
- and too stupid to start dropshipping from China.
So, whatever keeps the hope of the S.A job is necessary.
Oh and by the way, even though there's nothing funny about you - Happy 20 years anniversary on stage.
You know what, scratch that - the only thing funny about you is that a woman married you.
Women will always be women, they'll marry anything.
I almost stopped listening,respectfully, the intro should’ve sounded more Nigerian than foreign, making it hard to connect. Some tracks felt unconnected, and Track 12 with Chris Brown didn’t match their past work. While many focus on the album’s flaws, I see growth. Featuring 12 artists for his 5th albums is bold, but stacking features without past-level impact is a risky move that didn’t quite land this time, which I hope all the artiste on the album will promote it just like his doing, because….#mixofusng
Extremely cruel to humiliate a mother in front of her daughter like this. Even worse that this was recorded and posted on social media.
My mother used to sweep people’s houses and gutters in 2016. It hurt too much that I could do nothing financially to stop her. I often insisted on going with her, just to help fetch the water she needed so we could finish quicker and get back home before daylight. I didn’t want anyone to see us. The poverty that pushes one to hide their labour in the dark is a painful one.
Yes, that child should not be working. But more than outrage, what she and her mother deserve is compassion. The only humane response is to help.
If no one has done this already, I would like to take full responsibility for the girl’s education through university. I hope this eases their burden in some way. These are incredibly hard times.
Our Privilege blinds us in ways we’ll never truly understand.
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.