Friday okwudiri

Peter Obi will be on the ballot regardless of the evil actions by APC or Tinubu. Facts are stubborn.

@ADFmagazine Why don't you investigate and find out France's involvement in the destabilization of the sahel region. Why don't you find out who funds and arms the rebel. I hope you will not blame it on Russia or the absence of democracy.

Malian rebels reportedly using more sophisticated drones in attacks on government and PMC forces.

@PeterObi We will keep shifting the goal post. They will never score. We are smarter and faster than the master strategists. Obi's fault is his avowment to give Nigerians a clean, transparent, and accountable government. A clear departure from a system marked by corruption and sycophancy

Fellow Nigerians, good morning. I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you. Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances. We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal. More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism. We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power. Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise. Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them. However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building. Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated. And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions. There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline? Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from. Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

@CrownprinceCom2 Nigeria must be rescued from the canine of hyenas.We must bring an end to politics of monetized 'party structure' of corruption.We must insist on the character of candidates rather than purchased popularity by PR companies. Even if Obi joins an 11th-hour party,it will still grow

@Kasieobi_1 Talk is cheap. This guy, Sani, has been in political and financial limbo since he left the senate. Who knows, he has to queue with a bowl on hand like his fellow travelers, namely Reno Omokri and Fani Kayode, who recently got ambassadors positions

This is the fool that said, Obi’s support is tribal. In his 4 yrs in the Senate, sharing a few bags of inferior quality, & Kashibo radios to his constituents, were the only thing he accomplished. If NGR was a working country, is he not supposed to be languishing in jail by now?

Treat with urgent: Obidients if you have registered for the ADC party, kindly go and deregister now. Repost aggressively ✅

@PeterObi @tony_ubah A good number of persons in the ADC leadership are compromised, and their charge was to frustrate Obi and stampede him out of the party. As you see them in flowing gowns and starched caps,their appetite for money is insatiable, and that is why they are in politics,not for service

TO OUR BELOVED BROTHERS IN SOUTH AFRICA femifanikayode.org/to-our-beloved… William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caeser' is one of the best plays ever written by history's greatest playwright & it is amongst my favourites. It speaks of mob psychology, ambition, power, treachery & the most brutal & painful expression of betrayal by a loved one. Caeser loved Brutus his protegee above all else but at the end of the day it was Brutus, after others had stabbed him all over the body with their knives, that struck the fatal blow deep into his ageing chest & killed him. The shock of the betrayal by a loved one & his famous last words, "et tu Brute", as he slowly bled & died, (which when translated from Latin to English means "and you too Brutus?") conveyed his anguish & pain. It was not just Brutus' blade that finally took his life but also a broken heart. That is how the Nigerian people feel today as they witness the torment & sheer wickedness that their compatriots are being subjected to in South Africa, a nation that most of us love so deeply & dearly & that we sacrificed so much for historically. The purpose of this contribution is to critically examine what has been going on there &, for the record, these are my personal views & assesment & I do not share them in a representative capacity. Permit me to begin. According to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg at least two Nigerians have been killed as a consequence of the xenophobic tensions & attacks. Their names are Amaramiro Emmanuel & Ekpeyong Andrew. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that, Ninikanwa Okey-Uche, the Consul-General of the Nigerian Embassy in South Africa, said that Emmanuel died from injuries allegedly sustained after being beaten by personnel of the South African National Defence Force on April 20. This raises even more concerns than the ones previously held. It appears that it is not just the South African citizenry that are targetting our people but also elements in the South African Police. Surely Nigerian lives matter as well. The killings, beatings, persecution, humiliation, violence & discrimination that Nigerians, & other African nationals, are being subjected to in South Africa is unacceptable & stands condemned. Nigerian children are being turned back from schools, Nigerian patients are being thrown out of hospitals, Nigerian shoppers are being bundled out of shops, Nigerians stores are being ransacked & forcefully shut, Nigerian workers are being sacked & cast out of their offices & work places, Nigerian homes are being raided, ransacked & burnt, Nigerian diners are being thrown out of restaurants & Nigerian men, women & children are being beaten, insulted, mocked & humiliated in the streets for no just cause & even when & where their immigration papers are complete. South Africans are marching through the streets of their major cities, half naked in tribal wear, singing war songs, brandishing spears & other crude weapons & hunting black African immigrants, including Nigerians, as if they were animals. There is also footage of mobs of angry South African women beating up African immigrant women in the streets even whilst the latter were holding up bibles. Worse of all are the cases of wild & hostile crowds of South African males chasing & stripping African immigrant women, including Nigerians, naked in the streets, beating them to a pulp & sexually violating them in the full glare of a sea of angry, wild & depraved young men who recorded the disgusting spectacle with their telephones. A number of years ago the great South African reggae singer Lucky Dube was killed by a mob of South Africans simply because they believed he was Nigerian. That is how deep the hatred for their fellow Africans has eaten into the psyche & afflicted the minds of some of our South African brothers & sisters. This is bedlam. It is evil. It is wicked. It is cruel. And it is like a scene from Dante's 7th circle of hell. (CONTINUED BELOW 👇👇👇)

...General Murtala Mohammed and General Olusegun Obasanjo (as he then was) saw the fight against apartheid South Africa as a personal mission and they fought it with zeal and all the resources available to Nigeria. On one occassion Obasanjo refused to shake British Prime Minister Jim Callaghans' hand because of Britain's refusal to impose sanctions on apartheid South Africa. After apartheid fell in 1990 South African companies flooded Nigeria and were not only given billions of dollars worth of contracts but also dominated the banking, retail and telecommunications sector in our country. Nigeria lost over 90 billion USD plus over 34 years of fighting apartheid and more importantly every Nigerian that either resided at home or any other country in the world fought for, prayed for, advocated for and aggressively argued for the emancipation of our black South African brothers and the freedom of Nelson Mandela and all the other brothers and comrades that fought in the struggle. All this yet today the majority of South Africans appear to have forgotten or never cared to find out and we are regarded as nothing but criminals and parasites that are worthy of being hunted down and treated and killed like animals by rampaging mobs of those very same South African blacks that we gave so much support and offered so much love. It is indeed painful and it is with that pain and broken hearts that we witness what our nationals are being subjected to in South Africa today at the hands of the very same people that we once helped and that we always loved and cherished. It is a given that the atrocities that our people are being subjected to in South Africa today has to stop & we must rebuild the bridge of love, trust & fraternity between the nationals of our two countries. A better understanding & greater appreciation of our collective history & joint struggles coupled with love, tolerance, solidarity, peace, mutual respect & collaboration between the people of our two beautiful nations is the way forward & I hope that this can be achieved. There is no place for the rabid racism & mindless xenophobia that we are witnessing on a daily basis in the Rainbow nation today. South Africa is bigger & better than that & she should be a source of pride to us all & not a source of concern. Outside of that President John Mahama of Ghana, clearly appalled by the attacks that African nationals were being subjected to in South Africa, including many of his own Ghanian compatriots, spoke the bitter truth when he said, just a few days ago, that "xenophobia is a betrayal of the Pan African dream". Yet thankfully all is not lost and there is cause for hope. I say this because in what appears to be an attempt to warn those that are consummed by hate for their fellow Africans and possessed by the spirit of xenophobia, just a few days ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa said "people would not be allowed to take the law into their own hands and harm foreign nationals". These are deeply encouraging and comforting words. He did however follow them with a strong caveat when he said, "We say to those who are here legally, respect us as South Africans, respect our laws, conventions and our traditions, as you would want us to respect the laws and traditions of your own country". I do not think this is too much to ask. Illegal immigrants and criminals cannot possibly attract the sympathy or support of any right thinking person and legal immigrants must operate within the laws and respect the customs and traditions of their host countries. This is especially so given the fact that some Nigerians are given to indulge in all manner of crime in South Africa which reflects badly on us all. (CONTINUED BELOW👇👇👇)

@CrownprinceCom2 Those who campaign for votes from Nigerians may as well go and research into the demographics of age brackets of the country's census figures and determine for themselves the percentage of youth population, and that is where the structure lies. And not in some party executives

Peter Obi's Presidency is a dream of young Nigerians, not only Peter Obi.

@AJEnglish You see the problem with the US and Trump. You militarize the place you stir the hornet nest, and you then laugh to the banks. Meanwhile, you have succeeded in setting brothers for war. Arab on Arab war. Clever Yankees

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@WSJ The worsening economic situation in Iran is not caused by the Iranian government. It is a well loaded weapon by the US and Israel aimed at the people they claim to have come to save from their government. 🇮🇷 government is still standing despite talks of obliteration and blablabla

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A fiery speech by South Africa's🇿🇦 EFF leader Julius Malema, over xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals. “You say Zimbabweans take your jobs. Nigerians take your jobs. You march, close shops and beat up people. Tell us after doing that how many jobs have you created, by beating up these Nigerians, Zimbabweans and Ghanaians? You beat people because they took your jobs. You close a shop that hires people. How many have you created after beating and chasing them? Unskilled men, with no skills, none whatsoever, say somebody took away their jobs. I don't want your votes if you behave like that. Take them away. Pushing out of school an African child that looks like you, I will never do that. You can take your votes. Make me die with my conscience very clearly. I will never refuse a pregnant woman of African descent to give birth in the clinics of South Africa. Never!”

@Uptownoflagos @jcobishop Who does not know that all the shenanigans happening in the ADC is targeted at Peter Obi. If he is denied all the political vehicles to reach Aso Rock,we will present him as an independent candidate. There is no room for wuruwuru in 2027. APC must get this into their empty skulls

Insider Source: If Obi leave ADC today, it wouldn’t be because of primaries or ticket as Twitter boys are pre-occupied with. It will be that his Legal Team has concluded that ADC case in Court is too uncertain for ALL OPPOSITION to solely rely on.📌 AA & Others Must be careful