I have said this before, and I believe it is important to remind Nigerians of my position as we approach 2027.
Peter Obi has my support for the presidency.
But my position is clear, I am not supporting the idea of Peter Obi becoming somebody else’s Vice President.
The day Peter Obi accepts a Vice Presidential position, I will walk away from his corner. I have said this plainly, and I stand by it.
My concern is not about personalities. It is about the kind of leadership Nigeria needs and the direction in which we want our country to go.
I have also argued that we should begin to rethink the age of those seeking executive office. The Nigerian presidency should not become a retirement home for politicians.
I believe there should be a serious national conversation about limiting presidential and gubernatorial candidates to those aged 70 or below.
Nigeria needs leadership that is focused on the future, not simply another cycle of political succession.
These are principles I have stated publicly, and Nigerians should judge them for themselves.
Our short video on result images with non-BVAS camera metadata raised many questions. We went deeper: where they appeared, which devices recorded them, and which candidate led across those polling units.
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A political nobody thinks they’re more reasonable than Peter Obi, a two-term governor, former bank chairman, the most popular Nigerian politician today.
😂😂 butterfly will just wake up and think itself a bird.
At the UN General Assembly Opening this morning taking in speeches by @UN SG @antonioguterres, the President of the General Assembly H.E. Khalilur Rahman @UN_PGA, and the leaders of Brazil and the United States, and catching up with various colleagues and Ministers. With President of @WorldBankGroup Ajay Banga, @RaniaAlMashat UN USG and Executive Secretary @UNESCWA, H.E. @EspenBarthEide MFA of Norway, H.E. Battsetseg Batmunkh @BattsetsegBatm2 MFA of Mongolia, and H.E. @shisir Khanal MFA of Nepal.
🇷🇺 Russia killed 300,000 people in Japan with atomic bombs.
No, it was the United States.
🇩🇪 Russia killed between 5 and 6 million Jews.
No, it was Germany.
🇨🇩 🇧🇪 Russia killed 6 million people in the Congo.
No, it was Belgium.
🇬🇧 Russia killed hundreds of thousands of starving people in India and enslaved nations in Asia and Africa.
No, it was England.
🇬🇧🇪🇸🇵🇹 Russia deported millions of chained Africans to enslave them in America.
No, the British, Spanish, and Portuguese did that.
🇩🇿 Russia killed thousands of people in Algeria.
No, it was France.
🇻🇳🇰🇭🇺🇸 Russia killed 3 million people in Vietnam and 2 million in Cambodia.
No, it was the United States.
🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 Russia killed six million Koreans — both South and North — and one million Chinese during the Korean War.
No, it was the United States.
🇮🇷 Russia killed one million people in Iraq, including through the use of depleted uranium bombs that still cause babies to be born with deformities twenty years later.
No, it was the Anglo-Americans.
🇦🇫🇺🇸 Russia killed more than 240,000 people in Afghanistan.
No, it was the US.
🇱🇾 It was Russia that bombed Yugoslavia and Libya.
No, it was the US and NATO.
🇲🇽🇵🇷 Russia committed genocide against indigenous peoples and annexed half of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and other territories.
No, it was the United States.
Russia killed 100,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the current Middle East conflict alone.
No, it was Israel.
Media propaganda spreads exact opposite.
We are extraordinarily lucky that Putin is the president of Russia.
Any other Russian president wouldn’t have the patience and contention he has with us.
BREAKING:
Russia says it is gathering evidences that if European leaders are involved in attacking oil facilities in Moscow, Russia, there will be world war III.
China comes to Nigeria, mines our raw materials with little government oversight and at almost no cost, and sends them back to China to manufacture products that are eventually sold to Nigeria and other African countries at significantly higher prices.
It is time we set tribalism aside and start looking inward.
If nothing is done, China could completely take over Nigeria’s economy within the next five years.
Nigeria cannot sell finished products to China, yet we consume almost everything they produce.
What, then, is the future of our children?
It is now a matter of urgency that we develop critical skills within Nigeria and take control of our economy.
OBI/KWANKWASO TALKS NIGERIA, THE KADUNA TOWNHALL
Yesterday, after my visit to the Sheikh Muhammad Sambo Memorial Islamic Institute in Rigachikun, Kaduna, I joined my running mate, His Excellency, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and candidates of our party for an interactive town hall meeting organised by the party.
The town hall, which is a continuation of our series of engagements with citizens following the one we recently held in Port Harcourt, again afforded us the opportunity to interact directly with our fellow citizens, listen to their concerns, answer their questions and hear their contributions on the critical issues facing our country today.
Our response was to reassure our dear compatriots of our commitment to uniting our nation, pulling our people out of poverty, investing in healthcare and education, and aggressively tackling insecurity, so that our people can safely return to their homes, communities and farms.
We also spoke about the need to address the endemic corruption and inefficiencies in the fuel subsidy regime, reduce the burden of fuel costs on Nigerians, and create an economy that supports our citizens to live decent and dignified lives in their own country.
Let me use this opportunity once again to call on our opponents to also speak directly with the people and listen to their feedback. The very essence of democracy is people-centred governance. Leaders and aspiring leaders must therefore leave their comfort zones and interface directly with the people they seek to serve.
I thank our party leadership and the organisers of this town hall for a job well done, and I congratulate the good people of Kaduna State for their renewed commitment to supporting a leadership that listens to and respects their concerns.
A New Nigeria is POssible, and Nigeria will be OK. -PO