Rolly Bladez

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[Rolly Bladez @RollyBladez]

@PO_GrassRootM They thought they would corner Peter Obi in their coven. All this nonsense G100 talk is moot. We’ve moved on. It’s Obi or nothing for most of the country.

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@StatiSense You think any of these companies (global accounting powerhouses o - in @DrJoeAbah’ voice) would hire anyone with a criminal drug past? Even if those records are for a forfeiture which did not require jail and that the records were sealed, they will walk away.

You’ve been bought.

[ijustin @justinijeh]

Let me share a story that is obliquely related to this issue of manifestos…

Many years ago, as a middle management staff at Access Bank, I was chasing a transaction that had the potential to turn my groups profitability and balance sheet around.

The customer had landed a huge slate of contracts with the federal government. It would drive Billions in current account balances and fee fee income.

They needed a guarantee from the bank.

I made the case… wrote the credit analyses, presented the approval memoranda all the way to the management credit committee…

Everything looked good on paper. Almost too good…and it was provisionally approved after some hard grilling by the committee.

But after the meeting…My DMD at the time, the late Herbert Wigwe, called me to his office…

“Justin, I want to meet this customer in person. Schedule a meeting for next week but don’t issue the offer letter until after”

I was agitated…Haba…after all this wahala why can’t we just issue the guarantee and let me book my fees? But oga had spoken…so what to do?

I did as instructed.

We got to Abuja for this meeting as scheduled…

Hebert was just ‘gisting’… I was expecting some hard hitting technical questions, like the ones I had been asked…maybe he just wanted to hear them himself ?

But nah…

just gist…about business, how he got started, what he thought about this and that and the other…some old transactions…with other banks…politics…his relationship with the government and other deals in the pipeline …everything under the sun…but the specifics of the transaction in question.

Meeting ended. I’m confused.

We’re on the way back to the airport and I’m waiting for Herbert to say something.

Nothing.

Just talking about my business in general…other things I was working on. I knew better than to ask what I was really waiting to hear.

Then he drops the bomb just as we are landing in lagos.

“Justin, we’re not doing it”

I felt like exploding…

He continued…

“In the business of credit and banking, you will learn that willingness to repay is more important than the ability to repay…you will find other deals…”

I was deflated, confused, angry…

One guy from one of the top five banks that loves large ticket corporate deals did the transaction eventually. He got promoted for it…

The customer diverted some of the proceeds and the whole thing went sideways.

The guy also eventually got fired for it.

The only time HW revisited the issue was one day we met in the elevator a couple years after, when the news of the matter broke.

“Justin I’m sure you’re happy you didn’t do that transaction now”

I didn’t have to ask which one he meant.

How does any of this relate to manifestos?

They are important and necessary for every candidate to have. They provide clarity and a baseline for how one can evaluate a candidate in a presidential election.

But they tell you NOTHING about the CHARACTER of a candidate. They provide no insight into the most impactful attribute a leader should possess.

That can only be judged by their actions. Their track record. How they have handled previous responsibility or conducted themselves historically.

So by all means let’s have the manifestos and let’s critique them when they are made public by the candidates.

But let us also examine their manifest character, as evidenced by their lives and conduct in the past.

Otherwise the manifesto is hardly worth the paper it’s printed on

End of.

Continue to rest in peace HW.🙏🏾

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@HelianeKambum Using 101% of the brain.

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@HonShield APC is thinking about 2027 meanwhile these actions will affect the country for 100 years especially regarding our international standing. International regard for certificates issued in Nigeria was already low. Soon, they will be worthless outside the shores of Nigeria.

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@GuardianNigeria The APC is throwing the kitchen sink, pots, spoons, everything at this Osun election. This desperation is not pure. Osun people, collect APC’s money and vote wisely.

@AAdeleke_01, @davido and the good people of Osun will win it.

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@Jack_ng01 Why was I thinking that you stayed because of the ADC presidential candidate? Let me face my front. 🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️

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@chestermanutd3 Which of these clubless players will you add to an elite team in Europe or Saudi Arabia?

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@enitandev @PeterObi Muted this dude. The length I go for sanity. Started out sounding like a faux intellectual & low budget @FinPlanKaluAja1 until we saw through his BS as an APC hack. The unraveling was televised.
Calling Obidients zombies after trading ur brains for Agbado is premium fooling.

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@lauren_w67 “That rat went right to HR”. ���🤣🤣

This is why HR is hated. It can be a willing tool in these circumstances. Sadly. I’ve had multiple circumstances like this.

I prefer to accept the resignation and let the employee see out the notice they’ve graciously given.

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@channelstv Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a senator of the federal government. The decline in the republic is complete.

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@jrnaib2 Sighs! Are we back to this careless talk? You should give the same advice to those in your camp who need it. @PeterObi and @KwankwasoRM are easily the best brands Nigerians have been offered since sliced bread? This combo will win a free and fair election. Stop playing about.

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@ruffydfire Some of these women will still bow courteously ontop 2KG bag of rice inside ziplock😩😩😩😭😭😭. When would this weaponisation of poverty end?

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@thecableng Gov Fubara has been pushed out & he’s made peace with it. He should leave all these reconciliation shenanigans and fix the roads in Port Harcourt. As the first governor from the Riverine areas, this man’s legacy should not be as a door mat otherwise Ikwerres forever dominate.

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@tokunbo_wahab @ThisIsAdemuyiwa Don’t pay & they harass you.

This desperate abdication of responsibility is pitiful. Which major city in the world has this kind of bad behavior? These are not street urchins as you call them. They are the kids left in poverty because you & ur govt refused to educate them. Sad!

[Moni Ukpeya @Ntob]

There are a number of people that I can’t waste my time listening to.

1. Nyesom Wike
2. Reno Omokri
3. Daniel Bwala
4. Kemneth Okonkwo.
5. Bayo Onanuga

I protect my sanity

[Rolly Bladez @RollyBladez]

@aonanuga1956 Some Nigerians are not poor. With over 100million people living in poverty, most Nigerians are poor.

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@TheoAbuAgada If you’re speaking to Obidients, do so with your full chest. This pandering/beating around the bush is nauseating. Reminds me of your PDP toxic character.

If it’s APC you mean, my bad. Go ahead & don’t let me stop you. Hit them hard. Don’t pander. 😁
We have an election to win

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@SirJarus 😂😂😂 Jarus you know you in HR, as in football, you build, buy or borrow players (loan deals).

Chelsea is building for the long term as them no too get money to buy marquee players, hence their young team but to compete, they need to buy experience.