Mr Professor, you left the classroom for Apex Bank and, within months, bought a multi-million-pound property in London. Congratulations.
The issue? You now seek to rival a man who purchased his London home in 1996—long before holding public office.
He built his wealth through verifiable investments; you amassed yours through "Nzama."
So, what are you vying for? To be a role model for the younger generation?
Should my generation follow a leader who:
• Publicly claimed Anambra didn't need two airports, then secretly used scarce state resources to build one?
• Promised roads built to last 20 years, only for them to fall apart in less than two?
• Invested over ₦12bn into a flyover promised for December 2025, pushed to August 2026, which remains unusable today?
• Stayed silent when ₦100m was transferred from state funds to the IGP's son's account—distracting us with photo-ops instead?
• Established the ANSIDIP (ADIC) agency to control up to ₦200bn in funds, yet refuses to appoint a Governing Board to oversee it?
Why should anyone allow you to mentor them? Following your blueprint leads straight down the path of 2 Peter 2:15—waste, ruin, and destruction.
I have plenty more to say this Sunday afternoon, but I’ll save the rest for later.
If no one else dares call it like it is, you know I will: You aren't just a failure; you're a tragedy our state should never have endured.
~ Kingsley Ubani
If you have a quarter of a brain, you would have seen clearly how much of an advantage his and other VIPs’ presence it would have been for the NPFL on a marketing standpoint but since you all want to lick asses and bend over, it would fly over your heads.
I think the club has done the right thing by deleting the tweet.
Peter Obi followers deliberately interpreted the tweet to score cheap political points.
We can't leave the tweet from the club to be used as a political tool by Obi followers.
We are a football club and not a political party.
@DeeNwuga@SportsAdigun People that are mad
If they had any brain, they it would have been a massive win for clubs cos once any of the opponents see that a candidate is making wave with a thing like that, they would want to compete. At the end, the clubs would be the biggest winners.
@Arragoni1@SportsAdigun Watching football is a way to milk attention? If it is to get attention, other candidates should do likewise and at the end of the day it is the clubs that will benefit from it due to the massive pull their presence on a match day will bring. (I hope you understand).
Egbon Bayo stop capping and respect the Nigerian people who pay your bills !
The Presidency announced on August 30 that President Bola Tinubu was leaving Nigeria for a three-week annual vacation in Europe. London was named as his first stop, and Nigerians were told he would return home after the working vacation.
That three-week period expired. On September 21, the Presidency announced that the President had extended his stay by “a few days” and would return “at the weekend.” The weekend came and went. The promise then changed to “this week.”
We need explanations not insults !!!
When a government announces one timeline, extends it, misses its own deadline and then offers another vague promise, Nigerians have every right to ask what changed. They have every right to ask who made the decision and who is accountable for it.
Instead of answering those basic questions, you have characteristically reached for ridicule.
“the President does not need to be physically present in Abuja to do his job in the digital age”
We’ve heard this argument before and it didn’t end well…
It is a distraction.
Nigerians did not ask whether a President can send instructions from abroad. They asked why the return dates keep changing, when the President will actually return, and what constitutional arrangement governs an absence that has now gone beyond the period originally announced.
Section 145 of the Constitution provides that when the President is proceeding on vacation or is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, he is to transmit a written declaration to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Was that declaration transmitted?
If it was, the Presidency should say so plainly.
If it was not, the Presidency should explain the legal basis for the arrangement you are defending.
The parallels with the Yar’Adua era are therefore impossible to ignore and the issue is not that the two situations are identical.
The issue is the familiar official script: describe the absence as routine, offer categorical reassurance, insist that the President can continue governing from abroad and dismiss those asking for clear institutional answers.
During the Yar’Adua crisis, Nigerians were told that the President could continue to govern from outside the country. Today, they are told that the President is on a “working vacation,” is “hale and hearty” (Aondooaka the AGF actually used that exact phrase back then! ) and does not need to be physically present in Abuja in the digital age. The same reflex for unaccountability to the Nigerian people has not changed and it must.
In both cases, slogans and assurances are being used to fill the space where Nigerians deserve a firm timeline, a transparent constitutional arrangement and direct accountability. “L
“Hale and hearty” is not a return date. A list of meetings is not a constitutional answer. And an insult from a spokesperson is not a briefing. We are the ones paying his bills and should be kept abreast of what our employee is doing …if it feels like it’s beneath him then he should resign to private life and do as he pleases with his time and resources!
No one is arguing that the President has no right to take leave. The issue is whether the Presidency can give Nigerians a straight answer about the length of that leave, the reason for the extension and the authority under which government is being conducted.
The Presidency is not a private itinerary. It is a public office. If the President is working, tell Nigerians what decisions he has taken. If his stay has been extended, give the reason and a definite return date. If the constitutional notice was transmitted, confirm it.
What Nigerians do not need is to be scolded for asking questions that the government should have answered without being pushed.
Your job is to provide clarity, not to insult citizens who demand it. Accountability can’t be sent on vacation.
Where is he ?!
THE PEP FILES. PART 1: The Italian Trap & The Unbending Court
Chapter 1: The Flawless Spanish Shield
For 11 seasons and 382 matches, Pep Guardiola was the undisputed heart of FC Barcelona. He lifted 16 major trophies, anchored the national team, and dominated European football. In Spain, his drug testing record was spotless, not a single flag, anomaly, or suspicious sample.
Then came the summer of 2001. Guardiola left Barcelona for Italian side Brescia.
Just two matches into his Serie A campaign, against Piacenza and Lazio, his urine samples triggered an immediate alarm: Positive for Nandrolone, a heavy-duty anabolic steroid designed to accelerate recovery, increase muscle mass, and boost stamina.
How does a player spend over a decade in La Liga completely undetected, only to fail a test the second he crosses the border into Serie A? Did Pep suddenly start doping at 30 years old? Or was he using the exact same protocols he used in Spain, only to run headfirst into a legal system that actually checked?
Chapter 2: Why Spain Kept Him Clean?
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Italian football operated under the strict oversight of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) and fearless public prosecutors like Raffaele Guariniello. Italian authorities used lower detection thresholds for steroid metabolites, performed unannounced training ground raids, and treated sports doping as a federal criminal offense.
Spain, by contrast, had no centralized anti-doping agency. La Liga relied on soft, predictable post-match urine tests.
No Out-of-Competition Testing: Testers only checked players after matches. Anyone using calculated clearance windows, micro-dosing schedules, or "seasonal preparation plans" during recovery breaks was virtually immune on Spanish soil.
Legal Immunity: Until 2006, doping was not a crime in Spain. Courts could not issue police search warrants for club pharmacies or seize medical files, while Spanish testing labs faced intense international criticism for a lack of transparency.
Chapter 3: The Doctor Pipeline & The Multivitamin Defense
Cornered by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Guardiola held a press conference declaring his innocence: "A machine says I have taken nandrolone, but I know I didn't."
His defense was the classic athlete playbook: "contaminated multivitamins."
Who supplied those multivitamins? Dr. Ramon Segura, a professor of physiology at the University of Barcelona and Guardiola's personal physiologist.
Segura’s name was already red-hot. Just seven months earlier, Dutch midfielder Frank de Boer tested positive for Nandrolone at FC Barcelona under Segura's care. In fact, the 2001–2002 Serie A season saw a sudden wave of Nandrolone busts: Guardiola, Jaap Stam, Edgar Davids, and Fernando Couto, all pointing to supplement protocols arranged by a tight network of sports doctors.
The FIGC rejected Guardiola's excuse, handing him a 4-month ban and a €50,000 fine. Italian criminal courts went further: in May 2005, a judge in Brescia sentenced Guardiola to a 7-month suspended prison sentence.
Chapter 4: The Great (Lucky) Escape (2007–2009)
Guardiola spent eight years fighting the ruling. In October 2007, an Italian appeal court quietly acquitted him on a scientific technicality, accepting arguments that extreme physical strain could cause human bodies to naturally produce trace nandrolone metabolites, or that testing margins at the time allowed for false positives.
The legal drama reached a tense climax in May 2009. Right as Guardiola was guiding FC Barcelona through their iconic treble-winning season, CONI’s anti-doping prosecutor formally reopened the case, calling the acquittal "unacceptable" and summoning Pep back to court.
By September 2009, CONI threw out the appeal due to expired procedural deadlines. The case was buried forever.
In 2008, Pep Guardiola took over as head coach of FC Barcelona. What happened next is a story for another day..
Where Is Nigeria’s President?
The dynamic President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, delivered a remarkable address at the 81st United Nations General Assembly. The international community has commended his leadership and the substance of his address. It is a reminder of what leadership can produce when competence, capacity, compassion, commitment and character come together in the service of a nation.
Against this background, many are asking: Where is the President of Africa’s most populous nation, a country of more than 200 million people - more than Ghana - whose leader has been absent from the global stage for three consecutive UNGAs?
Nigeria’s President, who ought to be representing the country and providing leadership for Africa at the international level, has not attended any of these three global gatherings. Where is he, particularly at a time when the country faces significant challenges, both domestically and internationally?
Although our Vice President, Kashim Shettima, was present, the question remains: Where is the President? Let us continue to pray for his return and for his leadership in addressing the many challenges confronting the nation.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
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When I was in secondary school, Alhaji Lateef Jakande built thousands of temporary classrooms, which were used to provide access to free education to millions of children who would have otherwise been denied of educational opportunities.
His opponents then derisively called them "poultries", but there were never any actual chickens in them. The free education program continued under Commodore Gbolahan Mudashiru, an indigenous Lagosian from Ikorodu, my hometown. He replaced the makeshift bungalows with more befitting 3 storey classroom blocks across Lagos State within the 18 months that he served.
That was 43 years ago.
In the last 27 years of Tinubu's rulership of Lagos State, under one puppet governor after the other, we have witnessed a steady, deliberate, intentional and deeply diabolical assault on the educational heritage of Lagos State, with no single new school built in 27 years.
The existing schools have been left to rot, to the point now where they are more suitable for habitation by GOATS! It is no surprise, as the rest of Lagos State has been allowed to become one gigantic GARBAGE DUMP.
The incoming @GRVlagos administration will build, staff and equip more new schools than Alhaji Jakande did.
We will provide free access to much higher quality educational opportunities to the children of Lagos State and end the absurd situation where there are 6 times more PRIVATE SCHOOLS than public schools.
Lagosians, the choice you have is clear in the next election: you either vote ADC to give your children better opportunities in life, or you vote for the party that prefers goats in schools than your children.
Please continue to enjoy your weekend.
#VoteGRVLagos
#VoteADC
#MEGA2027
#MakeEkoGreatAgain
#TakeYourFitnessSeriously
The law is very clear: where the total votes cast in a polling unit exceed the number of accredited voters, the result from that polling unit should be cancelled.
We have substantial evidence suggesting that, in some elections conducted under Mahmood Yakubu, collation officers refused to cancel results even when the number of valid votes cast exceeded the BVAS accreditation record. They saw the discrepancy and still collated the results.
INEC under Mahmood Yakubu was a criminal enterprise, and I say this with every sense of responsibility.
How do you explain the Kogi State governorship election, in which an LGA that recorded turnout below 20% in the presidential, National Assembly, and State House of Assembly elections suddenly jumped to over 94% turnout?
In that same election, one party received 98% of the votes, and that single LGA contributed almost one-third of all the votes cast in the entire contest.
How do you also explain that roughly half of the results from that LGA were uploaded using non-BVAS devices?
Yet INEC accepted all the results and declared a winner.
One red flag may have an explanation. But when multiple independent red flags begin to corroborate one another, you have to dig deeper. Something is going on.
Politicians will try to cheat and manipulate elections. But INEC has the power to make such manipulation extremely difficult.
We cannot build an electoral system that depends on trusting individual INEC officials to always do the right thing.
That is where technology comes in.
Let us use technology to make election manipulation harder and easier to detect.
This is why we are advocating for INEC to publish the electronic BVAS accreditation record on the IReV portal, alongside the polling-unit result and Form EC8B from ward collation.
Let Nigerians see what BVAS recorded, what was declared at the polling unit, and what eventually made it into ward collation.
Prof. Amupitan, please do the right thing. Write your name in gold. Make the electoral process genuinely transparent and credible, and Nigerians will remember you for it.
ON THE ANAMBRA DEBT QUESTION
I have remained silent over the past few days because I have been grieving the loss of my very dear elder brother and friend, Chief Okey Ezeibe. However, the time has come for me to address some of the matters that have occupied public discussion in recent days.
I respectfully urge everyone to concentrate on the existential challenges confronting Nigeria and the hardships endured by its citizens, rather than on the needless distractions that have become widespread in our politics.
I wish to assure the public that I have no disagreement with my dear elder brother, Governor Soludo, or with any governor in Nigeria. I am not seeking the office of governor in any state, and I will not seek that position again, even if the Constitution is amended.
Accordingly, I appeal to governors to support whichever presidential candidate they choose while also permitting and assisting other presidential candidates and contenders for other offices to campaign freely and without interruption in their states. Ultimately, voters should be allowed to determine whom they wish to serve them.
Regarding the multilateral funding inaccurately described as “debt owed by Peter Obi” in Anambra State, I wish to state unequivocally:
As Governor of Anambra State, I did not approach any financial institution to borrow funds or issue a bond on behalf of the state. Indeed, at his farewell ceremony, the then Director-General of the DMO, Abraham Nwankwo, appointed me chairman and declared that, during his 10 years in office, I was the only state governor who had not approached him for a loan facility.
When I left office, the Anambra State Government owed no unpaid salaries, gratuities, or pensions. Neither did it owe any contractor or supplier who had completed work that the government had verified and certified.
Regarding development financing from the World Bank, these are concessionary development-support funds secured by the Federal Government for states selected by it to address specific needs. Repayment is spread over 25 to 30 years.
The Anambra State Government must therefore differentiate among three separate figures: the total amount approved for the multiyear development program; the amount Anambra State actually drew during my tenure; and the funding balance outstanding when I handed over on 17 March 2014.
The government has combined these distinct categories, added them together, and described the resulting US$123.77 million as “loans left by Peter Obi.” That is an incorrect application of public-sector accounting.
The eight facilities identified were primarily World Bank and IFAD development programs negotiated by the Federal Government, with participating states receiving access to the funds through subsidiary arrangements. They were not conventional commercial loans that I personally secured during my tenure.
This does not suggest that Anambra had no repayment responsibilities; rather, each facility must be examined in light of its approval, effectiveness, drawdown, and repayment record.
The clearest contradiction appears in the government’s own figures. It states that the original facilities amounted to approximately US$123.77 million and that US$92.35 million remained outstanding in June 2026. However, the DMO’s published records showed Anambra’s total external debt at approximately US$18 million when I began my tenure in March 2006, about US$30 million in March 2014, when I left office, and approximately US$45.15 million as of 31 December 2014, nine months after my departure.
The Anambra State Government must therefore clarify how a state whose recorded external debt was about US$30 million in March 2014 and US$45.15 million in December 2014 could supposedly have inherited US$123.77 million from Peter Obi, who left office in March of that same year.
@adeyanjudeji@TheoAbuAgada God will punish you if you have nothing to say to what your Egbon that you were supporting the other day just said regarding the presidential candidate you are suppose to protect! God in his infinite mercy will take peace away from you and yours.
What you all miss in this “uni fees should be N1M” discourse is simple ECN 101: demand and supply.
If you increase fees by N1M, in what world do you think the scale of higher education enrollment won’t drop in a country where 95% of Nigerians don’t have more than N500,000 in their accounts?
You treat this as though the demand for tertiary education will necessarily remain fairly inelastic, even when the price is raised outrageously. Be mindful of the monsters you all want to make from your safe havens.
You all brazenly disrespect, particularly, the intangible benefits of education subsidy in this society. Just wait until you have a nation that does not know what to do with its restive youths.
You will find out that it is cheaper to let our education be. Leave the poor alone. Go and tell your gossiping senators to take N10,000 per month as their salaries. Trust me, they’ll be fine without it.
As though the noose on the neck of the poor is not tight enough.
This makes no sense whatsoever. This is a big fat lie. Abia Daily has investigated this issue.
AND THIS IS WHAT WE FOUND👇👇👇👇
The Anambra Water Corporation dispute was inherited by Peter Obi, addressed in part during his tenure, and only taken off the court list in 2024. It is not evidence that he created the crisis.
17 March 2006:
Peter Obi was sworn in as Governor of Anambra State.
February–25 April 2006:
Water Corporation staff had last been paid in February 2006. On 25 April 2006, less than six weeks into the new administration, the Governor’s Chief of Staff, Chuks Iloegbunam, formally drew attention to that backlog and asked that the corporation be placed on regular subvention. The arrears were therefore already in existence at the point Obi assumed office. They were not opened by him.
2000–2005:
Subsequent official accounts of the later court payout treated a substantial part of the Water Corporation debt as having accumulated from about 2000, through the administrations of Chinwoke Mbadinuju and Chris Ngige. The utility’s decline was structural and predated 2006.
2006–2008:
The Obi administration subjected the swollen wage-bill claims to consultant review (MEDAL). That was an attempt to separate verified entitlements from a disordered backlog, not an act of neglect.
2007:
The same later record that is now used against Obi also states that his administration released about ₦200 million as part payment of Water Corporation and related arrears which it had both inherited and then carried. That is a documented payment into the file.
April 2009 / December 2009:
AUPCTRE referred a trade dispute to the Minister of Labour. The union’s own claim was already multi-year: 48 months’ salaries and eight years’ leave allowance for Water Corporation staff, and 25 months’ salaries plus eight years’ leave for ANSEPA staff. Early Industrial Arbitration Panel figures were calculated as at December 2009. Those pleadings describe a long backlog. They do not describe a debt invented in March 2006.
2013:
While the labour dispute continued, the Obi administration moved to rehabilitate water infrastructure, including the Greater Onitsha Water Scheme and the long-abandoned Ogidi scheme, with planned extensions to Obosi, Ogidi, Nkpor, Nkwelle Ezunaka and Umunya. That was an attempt to restore the utility itself, not merely to argue about personnel.
17 March 2014:
Obi left office.
14 July 2014:
The National Industrial Court issued a garnishee order of about ₦1.86 billion against state accounts. That enforcement came after Obi’s tenure. The succeeding Obiano administration announced payment of that sum and itself described the arrears as stretching back to about 2000.
3 June 2019 and January 2022:
Further National Industrial Court enforcement followed under later governments. The file remained live after 2014.
6 February 2024:
The Soludo administration and AUPCTRE signed an out-of-court settlement at the Office of the Head of Service, Awka, bringing the 14-year legal contest to a close.
2026:
The same government that signed that settlement later revived the closed file as a political charge against Obi.
Conclusion:
The corporation was treated as shut down around 2012 during Obi’s tenure, and the labour question was not finally regularised until 2024.
It was an ongoing legal dispute and the Anambra State Govt. under Mr. Peter Obi could not possibly engage in subjudice by paying monies towards a case still in court.
Those facts do not convert an inherited, multi-administration collapse into a crisis of Obi’s making. He met unpaid staff already in arrears. His government paid into that debt, reviewed the claims, and attempted to revive water schemes.
Later administrations continued the litigation. Governor Soludo settled the case in February 2024 and subsequently deployed a concluded matter as a political instrument. The documentary timeline does not support the claim that Peter Obi created this dispute
#MakeAlaIgboGreatAgain
Which of you guys created this? 😭
They turned Reno to ewu, Daddy Freeze to he-goat and Soludo to Mkpi 😭
And na Tinubu dey perform the magic 😭😭
Peter Obi even dey there
“Make sure you don’t sleep,” one trafficker belted out. “If you sleep, you fall off. And if you fall off, you die!”
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