My One-Term, Four-Year Vow Is Sacrosanct
One of the greatest American Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, served only four years, yet his legacy endures as a model of principled leadership. Another iconic figure, John F. Kennedy, did not even complete a full term, yet his vision and ideals continue to inspire generations. In Africa, Nelson Mandela, revered globally as a symbol of justice and reconciliation, chose to serve only one term as President of South Africa, despite immense public pressure to stay longer. His decision was a deliberate act of leadership, a statement that power must serve the people, not the self. Indeed, history shows that the longer many African leaders remain in power, the more likely they are to be corrupted by it. Longevity in office is not a mark of success; rather, it is purposeful, accountable service - however brief - that defines true statesmanship.
It is within this context that I reiterate my vow: I will serve only one term of four years if elected President. And that vow is sacrosanct.
I am fully aware that the decay in our society has made trust one of the scarcest and most sceptically viewed commodities. Many Nigerians, understandably, no longer take politicians at their word. But even in this climate of cynicism, there are still a few whose actions have matched their words - whose integrity is built on verifiable precedent.
Recently, I became aware of two statements aimed, albeit indirectly, at my vow to serve only a single four-year term. One person remarked that even if I swore by a shrine, I still wouldn’t be believed. Another suggested that anyone talking about doing only one term should undergo psychiatric evaluation.
I understand the basis of their scepticism. They are judging me by their own standards - where political promises are made to be broken. But they forget, or perhaps choose to ignore, that Peter Obi is not cut from that cloth. I have a verifiable track record that speaks louder than speculation.
In my political life, my word is my bond. When I entered politics in Anambra State, I made clear and measurable promises to the people: to improve education and healthcare, to open up rural areas through road construction, and to manage public funds with prudence. I fulfilled each of those promises without deviation. I did not swear by a shrine, nor have I been certified mentally unstable as a result of honouring my word.
My vow to serve only one term of four years is a solemn commitment, rooted in my conviction that purposeful, transparent leadership does not require an eternity.
If making such a promise qualifies me for psychiatric evaluation, then we may as well question the mental fitness of those who framed our Constitution, which clearly stipulates a four-year renewable tenure.
I maintain without equivocation: if elected, I will not spend a day longer than four years in office. In fact, I believe that service should be impactful, not eternal.
We must rebuild trust in our country. I have dedicated my public life to demonstrating that leadership with integrity is not a myth. I have done it before, and I do not intend to betray that trust under any circumstances.
Forty-eight months is enough for any leader who is focused and prepared to make a meaningful difference. In that time, I intend not merely to make an impression, but to deliver on concrete promises to:
sanitise our governance system;
tackle insecurity through effective and accountable use of national resources; prioritise education, healthcare, and poverty alleviation;
catalyse small businesses as engines of growth ; and combat corruption with unflinching resolve.
Above all, I will dedicate myself to transforming Nigeria from a consuming nation into a productive one, where agriculture, technology, and manufacturing replace rent-seeking and waste as our national anchors.
These are not utopian dreams. They are realistic, actionable goals that are achievable within four years.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
The worst mistake people make is looking down on some businesses.
I saw a post where Tolani Baj said she spent 135k to fill her car tank. Someone said she was cheated, and she replied she drives a Mercedes-Benz GLE so she wasn’t cheated.
I commented that I can relate because I also spend that range to fill my car tank.
Next thing, people rushed to my page, saw I sell kilishi and concluded my kilishi business can’t afford to fuel the car..
I just laughed at the mentality.
It’s the same kilishi business that bought my Mercedes-Benz GL 450.
It’s the same business that maintains it for 2yrs, that’s V8 engine o.
You know what it means to maintain V8 engine? And this car even have two fuel tanks so you can imagine the cost of fueling it.
Stop looking down on businesses.
Some of you are waiting for oil company jobs before you feel you’ve “arrived,” and that mindset is exactly why you’re still stuck.
Me, I’m proudly carrying my pot of wealth.
Kilishi is my wealth.
And I’ll stay loyal to this brand…
One of my biggest distributor is sponsoring her daughter studying nursing outside the country and I shouldn’t be proud of building a solid brand? You lie..
I remain your Kilishi Lord
@JRhymes1@Wizarab10 God bless you
You will never fail.
You will not beg for bread.
May you never lack.
May God increase you wisdom.
I can go on and on.
Things we do for our girlfriends, if we do half for our wives at home... Make I talk sha!
@Wizarab10 You just have to try new things, new places. I am sure you took that other woman to a nice hotel probably got high ate chicken, small stout and Hollandia. Give your wife the same treatment and see your sex life restored. You could even buy sex toys to spice it up.
Egbon. It's OK to maintain your friendships and still remain honest. Bwala embarrassed Nigeria as a whole. His utterances about the President and the APC during the elections were vile, toxic, and uncouth. If he is unable to eat his own reckless words with humility after accepting a role in the admin, do not use plenty grammar to whitewash his character flaws.
That interview serves as a reminder as to why people need to be civil in politics! Don't give an excuse for bad behaviours!
Hostility Is Not Journalism. Mehdi Hassan Take Note.
There is a clear difference between tough journalism and outright hostility. One serves the public interest. The other serves the ego of the interviewer. Unfortunately, the recent exchange between @mehdirhasan and presidential spokesperson @BwalaDaniel fell squarely into the latter category.
What viewers witnessed was not a serious interview. It was an attempted public ambush.
From the outset, the tone was aggressively confrontational. Questions were framed less as inquiries into governance and more as prosecutorial traps. Responses were repeatedly interrupted before they could develop. Clarifications were brushed aside. The atmosphere was unmistakable: this was not a conversation designed to inform viewers but a spectacle designed to embarrass the guest.
Serious journalism does not operate this way.
The craft of interviewing demands discipline. It requires the ability to ask difficult questions while still allowing the guest to articulate answers. It requires intellectual confidence strong enough to permit disagreement without descending into open hostility. Above all, it requires a commitment to substance over theatrics.
That commitment was glaringly absent.
Nigeria is currently grappling with a range of serious national challenges economic restructuring, security threats, governance reforms, and the complex work of stabilizing a large and dynamic democracy. A responsible interviewer would have used the opportunity to interrogate the administration’s policies on these matters: What strategies are being deployed? What reforms are underway? What outcomes should citizens expect?
Instead, viewers were treated to an exercise in selective outrage and repetitive interruption.
Even more troubling was the insinuation that political realignment is somehow illegitimate. Democratic politics is built on shifting alliances. Individuals and movements evolve. Former opponents become partners when national circumstances demand cooperation. This is neither shocking nor dishonorable; it is one of the defining characteristics of democratic political life.
History provides countless examples. Leaders across the world have entered alliances with former adversaries when the demands of governance required it. To pretend otherwise is either intellectual dishonesty or a deliberate attempt to create sensationalism where none exists.
But the deeper problem in the interview was tone.
A journalist who openly ridicules or repeatedly attempts to humiliate a guest crosses an important professional boundary. The role of the interviewer is to hold power accountable not to behave like a courtroom prosecutor seeking a viral “gotcha” moment. When the pursuit of humiliation replaces the pursuit of insight, journalism loses its credibility.
Audiences deserve better than that.
They deserve interviews that illuminate policy, probe governance, and help citizens understand how leaders intend to confront the pressing challenges of the day. What they do not need is a theatrical performance in which hostility is mistaken for intellectual rigor.
Respectful engagement does not weaken journalism; it strengthens it. Firm questioning does not require contempt. Professionalism does not require aggression.
If global media wishes to retain its claim to moral authority as a watchdog of democracy, it must remember a basic principle: the goal of journalism is to inform the public, not to stage spectacles at the expense of civility and substance.
The interview in question did neither. It was not a demonstration of fearless journalism. It was a demonstration of how easily the craft can slide into something far less admirable when provocation becomes the objective and professionalism is abandoned.
Otunba Segun Showunmi
The Alternative
Farewell to Kayode Egbetokun, the IGP who mistook power for an eternal contract, hunting down nearly everyone who irritated him. At least those he could get.
Under his watch, the police cemented itself as the cheapest tool in the hands of the rich and powerful, wilfully offering to go after activists and journalists who said, tweeted or printed things that were deemed offensive. In his reign, journalists got trailed, raided, abducted and detained in the meanest of ways, without reason and more importantly without trial.
Goodbye to Egbetokun, the IGP with residential and ancestral ties to the headquarters of smuggling in the southwest but someone managed to not notice them much less bring them to book (Not that I do not know why.).
He leaves office with a legacy of power abuse, incorrigibly corrupt force, heightened crime and association with some of society’s most questionable elements. Hope his successor Tunji Disu does better. Or not. Up to him.
I’ve seen the same pattern in Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa bye-elections.
You need to take polling unit structure seriously or you’ve lost to rigging before election even starts.
It also happened live in Anambra election. Imagine Anambra. Whole LGs. No single polling unit agent from opposition.
Opposition can’t be doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. I saw comments of Nigerians on X asking common Nigerians to act as agents on afternoon of election. It won’t work everywhere.
Do not give Nigerians false hope if you are not ready.
I was invested mentally and financially in this AMAC election because Mo is a personal friend.
I think this is the last tweet I will tweet on polling unit structure till Nigerians are ready.. I am now sounding like a broken record.
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When i lose bet, lottery board should come & pay me 5% withholding tax as well.
The same thing we complained about betting companies.
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Osun Babes, the female team of Osun State Govt traveled to Lagos to play FC Robo with only one Jersey & no away jersey.
Guess what, at the prematch meeting, their home jerseys clashed with the home team & no jersey to wear. 😭
They tried to get any jersey at the market but couldn't meet up & they were walked over.
Bro to Bro
Take your life seriously this year!!!
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@AgbFixit@egi_nupe Just like the way Ikeja Electric @IkejaElectric swallowed our money during the meter upgrade. So many tokens were not dropped and they charged for them.
@egi_nupe Banks do this rubbish and go away with it, a fintech app bank is owing me 5k for prepaid recharge that didn't go through since 2021. In their words, they don't know who or where the money is stuck.
In an unrelated conversation that does not involve me, someone (a lawyer I presumed) here chose to throw a shade at me for suing two Nigerian banks ( Access and Providus) for “ordinary 10,000, despite owning a law firm”. In his/her little or non-existing wisdom, the money is too small for my kind of person, assuming that I am bigger than the money. So why waste resources and time on such an insignificant sum of money.
First, people like that make wrong assumptions that taking such steps presupposes that you do not have something really important to do with your time and resources; even when in actual sense, such persons do not do as much as you are doing, good or well, for yourself.
Second, the person should have applied “common sense” to understand that the entire point of suing over such an insignificant sum of money is not because of the amount involved, but because of the lack of professionalism, accountability and business integrity of the institutions involved. If they can do that to someone whose bank account is far enough to consider such an amount negligible, imagine what would become of the fate of people whose lives entirely depend on small amounts of money like that?
Third, it’s because as a people, we are not litigious enough, we don’t pursue our rights enough and we do not make effective use of our legal system enough, that’s why powerful institutions believe that they can always get away with anything. Also, I struggled to understand the relevance and significance of me owning a law firm and pursuing such a cause of action.
Then I asked, wait: who else is in a better position to pursue such a case if not myself? How do I call or parade myself as a lawyer, and I do not explore the resources within my reach to speak up for myself when my rights are violated without regards; and my hard earned money is being unaccounted for by two banks for about 5years? How am I a lawyer to represent people if I cannot represent myself? A warrior who cannot fight his war is not fit enough to fight the war for others, paid or not.
Letting go of things easily, because they are not so important or for the sake of God or peace, is the reason why many people today are so irresponsible, and have zero sense of accountability. We wait until smaller problems become bigger before we see them as big deals, when we can easily nip them in the bud, from get-go.
In fact, I have another separate law suit against another bank, Access Bank, for blocking my account since 2023, over an unsubstantiated claim of owing 4000 naira, even when the account was well funded with over 1000% of what they claimed I owed as at 2025.
For professional reasons, I will not be going into the details and merit of these two cases that are currently pending at the Lagos State High Court and Federal High Court, respectively. All I can say for now is I will keep you updated on the outcome of both cases.
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@akintollgate People still don't understand that most small businesses use moniepoint as their paypoint
How Moniepoint cracked that market needs to be studied
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If I transfer N500 billion to 50 million moniepoint account holders and they transfer N5,000 between themselves 5 times a day for 365 days, what's the total transaction value?
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@akintollgate It is like BRT saying they moved 100 million people in a year, it doesn't mean there are 100 million people in Lagos but they have moved 100 million passengers.
Makinde Turning Emergency Opposition Mouthpiece Because President Tinubu Rejected Him
That Seyi Makinde's derogatory comment against President Tinubu at Osinbajo's birthday further confirmed that he got a cold shoulder from the President during his last visit to the Villa.
Like I made public, in his attempt to do a damage control on his public speech against the President, Makinde met the shock of his political life when he visited Asiwaju last week.
It is now obvious that after getting that cold shoulder from thePresident, Makinde must have realized that end of road has come in terms of reconciliation between him and the President. This is moreso that the Asiwaju made it clear that as far as Oyo State is concerned, he will support his party’s candidates in 2027.
The emergency opposition mouthpiece Makinde is trying albeit unsuccessfully to turn himself to is an aftermath the response he got from the President last week, which I made public.
Furthermore, it has vindicated me because if Makinde had gotten a soft-landing that he expected from the President, he (Makinde) wouldn't have gone to make that statement, condemning the Government of President Tinubu, by calling the President a dictator while praising the Buhari's administration.
With this assurances too, the APC in Oyo State should now wake up and slug it out with Makinde's candidate, which he will field under the ADC, knowing full well that PDP won't be open for him to use.
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(2003 - 2006 and 2014 - 2018)
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