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"Of all people who want to lead Nigeria today as president, I have not seen a man whose discipline, whose willingness to sacrifice, whose single mindedness, whose commitment to basic welfare of the ordinary people trumps that of Mr Peter Obi"
-- Dr Sam Amadi
“You arrested my men, and I asked for their release. You refused. I promised that I would @bduct many people, and I already have targ£ts.
“I asked why my men and Aminu were arr£sted. Since they were not released, I don’t care if they send thousands of soldiers. I am not tired, and I will not stop until I leav£ th!s world. I can k**!dn@p top government officials, even a state governor.
“I sw£@r to Almighty God that all the security forces sent to att*a**ck my camp are my boys. They inform me whenever they are coming. I receive information about security strategies, including those involving the President. It is only because I allow them to operate. Otherwise, they would not even be able to use the roads......"
– A b@ndit leader identified as Kachalla Maha has claimed he has the capability to abduct high-ranking government officials, including state governors.
My Stance on Road Development
There is a pertinent reason I have consistently advocated that we should refrain from initiating new road construction projects until we have thoroughly rehabilitated and maintained our existing road network. Instead of undertaking new ventures and dualization projects that offer marginal benefits, our primary focus ought to be on repairing the critical roads already in place.
Consider, for instance, the Asaba–Benin Road. This thoroughfare is a vital artery within Nigeria's transportation infrastructure. Travellers traversing from Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Rivers, Imo, Ebonyi, Cross River, Abia, Enugu, and portions of Benue and Kogi States to Lagos are compelled to utilise this route.
Despite its significance, substantial sections of this road are in a lamentable condition. It has become a major impediment, precipitating persistent traffic congestion and inflicting undue hardship on travellers, businesses, and transport operators.
Regrettably, this situation is not unique; it reflects the reality on many of our busiest national highways.
Our efforts should be directed towards the reconstruction and maintenance of our current road infrastructure before we announce plans for new road projects. The Nigerian populace requires functional and motorable roads, not merely projects that garner public attention.
Efforts aimed at superficial improvements for political gain should not supersede the urgent need to address the condition of our existing, critical roadways.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
According to Anambra State's @CCSoludo, during one of his visits to the Philippines, he visited a prison, & out of the 30 inmates who played a football match there, at least 60% to 70% were from the SE #Nigeria. He claims that we see the same troubling pattern in Indonesia, where 20 out of 22 of those executed were Ndi Anambra, & recently in Ethiopia, the majority of those returned to Nigeria also came from the Southeast.
The explanation, he argues, is that "our youths have been deceived by fake pastors and fake native doctors who peddle fake miracles and the lie of #Okeite'—they believe that once they use this charm, it will render drug detection scanners completely blind to the substances they are carrying. This deception is a major reason why we are now fighting these criminal native doctors who have misled & destroyed our young people."
Not for the first time, Mr. Governor does a huge service to public policy debate for which we owe him a world of thanks.
The factual foundations laid out by Gov Soludo as to the asserted over-representation of young men & women from SE Nigeria in prisons overseas are worrying & I agree with him that we need to interrogate the reasons or causes.
In doing so, we need to be careful about what Chimamanda Adichie calls the danger of a single story.
I am worried by the resort by Mr. Governor to presumptive, even presumptuous explanation for something that deserves much closer inquiry on the basis of evidence, which he seems not to have bothered to ask for or gather. His conclusions are based on anecdotal or imoressionistic material. Consular personnel at Nigeria's foreign missions or the @MFA_Nigeria could easily have afforded him proper comparative numbers - to the extent they exist - to inform his analyses, if he had asked.
Now, as an aside, the same young people whom he says indulge in all these things are the same people who tell you that "Juju no dey cross border." But let's not digress.
It is well possible, indeed likely, that some of the folks in those prisons may well be victims of their own greed for quick money. But is that where the inquiry exhausts itself? Are other reasons possible? Are there also structural reasons?
The neatness of the convenient exclusion of terrible political leadership & its consequences from Gov. Soludo's explanation should not escape notice.
It is easy to profile all these young people on ethnic grounds, and pathologise them & then proceed to wield one easy prescription for what is at best a facile, even lazy piece of diagnostic work. It is another piece of thesis in the service of irresponsible government & dissolute politics that offers nihilism or desperation to young people, instead of dignity & hope.
The question has to be asked why young people who are afforded opportunities on an equal basis with their peers elsewhere should find escape in intimations of the supernatural & fantasy. Surely, there is a deeper structural issue at the heart of the issue that Mr. Governor desires to wrestle with.
If there is a pathology here, it is of terrible politicians & government which, together, have denied a whole generation of young people of both opportunities & good example & left them victims of impoverishment to the point of desperation.
The answer is not to pathologise the young people, it is to address the generational exclusions that have condmned these young people to this fate & our failures of responsible & accountable political leadership.
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The Presidential candidate of our party, His Excellency Mr. Peter Obi, CON, has bemoaned the deplorable condition of Nigeria’s road network.
Our candidate emphasised that it is pertinent for the ruling party and its leaders to refrain from initiating new road construction projects until they have thoroughly rehabilitated and maintained our existing road network.
We completely agree with this position and are calling on the ruling government to, as a matter of urgency, repair all our major roads and stop subjecting Nigerians to unnecessary suffering and hardships.
In the wake of the recent Federal High Court ruling on the NDC, I urge all our supporters to remain calm, patient, and resolute.
This is not the time to falter. Let us stay united and focused on our noble mission of rescuing our beloved nation.
My full remarks on this matter are contained in the video below. - RMK