https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqd4ugXGKK0

The Minister of works, Dave Umahi, has alleged that former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, is inciting people of the South-East, especially those who are not well informed, against the Government.

Obi had on Tuesday expressed his displeasure on the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project stating that the government is embarking on a job-losing project at a time of rampant unemployment.

Umahi, reacting to the statement on Wednesday, May 1, at an event organized by the Federal Ministry of Work to compensate property owners affected by the Lagos- Calabar coastal road prospect, claimed that Obi would not fight for the people even after getting them into trouble.

There have also been mixed reactions following the demolition of Landmark Beach Resort, valued at $200 million, to create a right of way for the project which is estimated to cost the federal government N15 trillion.

However, Umahi insisted there was no inhumanity meted to Landmark and that the matter should be buried because he was actively involved.

The former Ebonyi state governor alleged that Obi goes around to condemn people, thereby bringing judgment upon himself.

He said: “It brings to some of the comments made by my brother, his Excellency Mr Peter Obi, I am not supposed to comment about it because some people have already done the work. And I know what Arise Television brought courtesy of Channels Television, they were bringing similar scenarios when His Excellency Peter Obi was the governor. He made a statement saying any infrastructure that stands in the way of the road must go. And there would be no compensation paid.” That’s what he said.

“But look at me, by the human face of the renewed hope agenda administration, we are even paying for people who are illegally staying on the coastal line, and don’t have valid infrastructure and valid documents. That is mercy, that’s mercy… You know some people darken counsel without knowledge. You know there’s the devil in the details.

“When you condemn people, you bring judgment upon yourself. And that is what he (Obi) has done. And I think he’s inciting some of the southeast people that are not well informed. He is inciting them. And gets them into trouble. And he doesn’t go to fight for them. Wisdom is a defence. And I want our people to have wisdom because I am involved.

“There’s is no inhumanity meted to Landmark, that matters should be buried because I was there. And so we fought everything possible. Even some people donated property to save his two big infrastructures. That’s appreciation. But some people have taken sides along with him to play politics.”

SOURCE

Umahi is trying not to go against his paymasters

Mr Umahi, I want to remind you, Wike, and Uzodinma that Rochas twerked more than you, Amaechi twerked more than you, Orji Uzo Kalu twerked more than you, Ogbonnaya Onu (of blessed memory) twerked more than you, where are they today? How did they all end up? Some say it's the heartbreak from the last APC Presidential Primaries that killed Onu. He never recovered, after the tears he shed on the podium that fateful night.

Those who are bad students of history are bound to repeat it. I rest my case!

Buhari go de Daura de chop tuwo shinkafa as e de collect BeeJ from Aisha after aluwala hahahaha

This present govt nor remember am to blame for their woes, they prefer to blame the same person they stole his mandate.

I just pity Nigerians in Nigeria, if you like don't run.

That coastal road should be completed from start to finish by this administration that embarked upon it. Failure for this administration to complete the project 100% will add this project to long list of abandoned projects and money wasted.

If it is completed, there may be justification for it when people start feeling the positive and economic impacts.

S/Easterners have independent minds and don't just collectively support Govt foolishly.

Anybody with common sense knows that it's unwise to embark on an expensive Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, when we already have a poorly maintained road network linking Lagos-Benin-Warri-PortHarcourt-Calabar.

Stupidity is a hallmark of every Thiefnubuuu miscreant, no matter the person's position. Umahi is trying to please his paymaster. Useless bastard!!!

I pity Peter Peter Obi the little saving grace he as been banking on he want it eroded totally before the next election.

I don't blame him though I blame Tinubu with his poor n pathetic governance. If this foolish government can just bring back naira to ₦700 n stabilize it there, ensure regular supply of fuel will Peter Obi be able to show face anywhere in Nigeria talk more of dreaming about recontesting in 2027.

Umahi you're such a compound fool! They will never give you the Presidential ticket

Toooh! If to say Dave Umahi na Hausa/Fulani or Yoruba man, I for say he’s being mischievous but since Na fellow Igbo like Peteru Girigori aka Gbajue with him feminine ashewo voice; I will wait to hear wetin him one-way-traffic-nzogbu-nzogbu followers go talk.

He’s just too tribalistic to rule this Country. Reno Omokri really opened his dirty Yansh to the whole world.

And 2027 will be worse for him now that everybody from other ethnicities now know the specie of snake he is. If he likes, he can turban himself as the Sultan of Zamfara (pun intended), He will never be President of this Country.

***Modified***

Wow! They have begun cursing Umahi. So soon?

These incorrigible charlatans were praising Dave Umahi a few weeks ago when he renovated the “Third Mainland Bridge”.

Some of them even created comparison topics just to disparage Babatunde Fashola for being so inferior to Umahi; now they’re cursing Umahi for speaking the truth.

They said the Landmark’s property demolished was worth $200 Million. No be only $200 Million, Na $200 Trillion. Awon alawada Keri-keri.

I am glad their tomfoolery is being showcased to the whole world.

Aremwayne:
What is this man saying ? I really hate this demonic party called APC

He is simply saying that Peter is a divider-in-chief.

Why should we worry ourselves over this inconsequential nonentities ?


It has been proved on several occasions that any support or votes from dot in a circle is a waste 😁😁😁

Umahi, you cannot twerk for Tinubu more than Amaechi twerked for Buhari. But see Amaechi today filled with shame and waist pain.

Peter Obi is a tribalist and has always been right from his time in Anambra as governor.

1. If he is not dividing his fellow ibos like the way he deported Ebonyi people from Anambra in 2011 or did not allow non-anambrans to contest in any election even for leadership of market positions,

2. he would pitch them against other tribes like he tagged Ngige a Yoruba candidate during the governorship election in Anambra in 2013

3. and if he can't find a way to divide with tribalism, he would divide people along religious lines like the Anglican vs Catholic fight he created in Anambra.

What is this man saying ? I really hate this demonic party called APC

This Umahi is not a complete human being. He talks like a child of yesterday. Only in Nigeria you see agberos, touts, certificate forgers, terrorist sponsors, kidnappers, drug barons, strange men and people without economy knowledge are in corridor of power.

I will not talk

Umeahi the idiotic politician

Peter Obi keeps showing why he isn't and can never be president of this country when all he does is critise with malice.

It's either he's completely ignorant about politics and economic management or he's just deliberately inciting people especially those who know nothing about how government works just because he lost an election.

Initially I had doubts about Tinubu but from his actions and policies even tho they might look harsh, are necessary to reshape the future of this country.

Obi can only appeal to intellectually lazy people who expects government to always spoon feed and shove convinience down their throats..

Umahi's end will be comical.
I'm not particularly pro Peter Obi, but I feel this is a wrong thing to say about the Man.

If nothing else, the Igbo people need a leader that would enjoin them to look towards home in these critical times, and Peter Obi is way too Nigerianised to be the one to bell that cat.

You can't toil all your life to build a business only for it to be torn down to assuage foreign friends who want to extend their real estate holdings.

Nobody wins moving like this.
Ask Asari.
Ask Rotimi Amaechi.
Ask El Rufai .

We'll be here when the cookies crumble.

Umahi is an arse wipe; Ass Licker....

Umahi should go ask Amaechi, how Buhari used and dumped him, he is now in the cold.

Patterns don't lie and few years from now, Umahi will be in that cold, trying to explain his present utterances,

BarrNosaEsq:
Mr Umahi, I want to remind you and Wike that Rochas twerked more than you, Amaechi twerked more than you, Orji Uzo Kalu twerked more than you, where are they today? How did they all end up?

Don't mind the anumanu. Didn't Ogbonnaya Onu just die, his last known public act in the party he helped build weeping like a child at a primary

Ok

Obi this, Obi that, is there no day without hearing Obi did something, na wa oooo.

Urheadmaster:













Umahi is trying not to go against his paymasters

Exactly

Why not start from calaba so that before you reach Lagos most of those business should have adjusted.

Will the road be completed under 1 year? We know that road will not be completed in 10 years to come.

And secondly what's the government doing on other bad roads in the country?

Una go still tire to dey call Peter Obi. Wasteful bunch of miscreants governing a country into the abyss

They always use your brother to fight you.
Umahi taking the role of the enemy within.

Ask Amaechi how far!

They’re inconsequential buhari did 8 yrs without their vote , Tinubu is doing 4 yrs and possibly doing another 4 yrs without them.
all they know what to do is rant and claim victimization.

The only reason these people are not dragging Umahi is because he’s Igbo . had it been Fashola, or Elrufai was the minister of works doing this it’ll will be worse , imagine a whole tribe lying that second Niger bridge does not Exist because fashola was the one handling it .

These people should not support Umahi when he’ll be coming out for presidency because their Nzogbu Nzogbu will hinder him . They think they’re the smartest And fill like every other tribe is a fool , next election they’ll be romancing SS to support their candidate, look at them fighting tooth and nail to hinder a whole regional development because one of their brothers is involved.

Other tribes who fall victims for their fake love are seeing it .
I remember whey they were petting Yorubas for vote , now every Yoruba is an Aafonja after election, only Hausa people know how to play politics with them.

What Peter Obi is trying to do is politics of populism. He realizes that the social media mob is sympathetic to the Landmark CEO who encroached on government land, and he decided to initiate a Twitter rant yesterday condemning the project.

To tell you how dangerous it is, some people are now asking investors not to invest in Lagos and a dangerous ethnic dimension has entered the conversation.

Landmark is one of several businesses and why are other businesses silent?

Looking at what was demolished, see picture below; please how does that amount to $200million investment? Quantity surveyors and valuers, please give a fair assessment of the value of that swimming pool and temporary shanties.

While I think Umahi went too far in saying Peter Obi is inciting Igbos, I think it is important for Peter Obi to inform himself of the implications of some of his submissions in the public arena. Nigeria is too fragile to play this ethnic game because of elections.

What many are reading is him fighting for his brother's investment, whipping up mob sentiments and misrepresenting facts.

Until now, Landmark has not proved to the social media that they own the land. They are saying shift the project away so I can illegally stay on the land. That is the illegality Peter Obi supports.

Apparently, the most expensive asset there is the swimming pool.

From the internet, the cost of a swimming pool is as follows;

Acrylic Pool ₦12,000,000 – ₦60,000,000
Concrete Pool ₦3,000,000 – ₦12,000,000
Fiberglass Pool ₦1,500,000 – ₦5,000,000
Vinyl-lined Pool ₦1,500,000 – ₦3,500,000
https://viscorner.com/costs/cost-of-swimming-pool-construction-in-nigeria/

Let's say each gazebo costs ₦500,000. There are about twenty of them there. That works out to about ₦10,000,000. I see three buildings. Let's put them at the cost of ₦20,000,000 each. Assuming the swimming pool costs ₦80,000,000 to build + ₦10,000,000 for gazebos and ₦60,000,000 for building, that works out to ₦150,000,000. Using an exchange rate of USD$1 = ₦1,263.273; that works out to USD$120,000. Okay, let's use the exchange rate of the naira to the dollar as at six years ago, since the CEO of Landmark claimed it was a six year investment. Obviously, prices were way cheaper then, but let us still use today's prices. That ₦150,000,000 works out to about USD$450,000 using an exchange rate of ₦333 to the dollar which obtained as at six years ago. Experts can argue for inflation and price fluctuations.

Clearly, the costing shows that the investment demolished is between 0.225% to 0.06% of the $200m investment claimed by the Landmark CEO. Of course, many bought it and ran with it.

At this time, the Landmark CEO owes the government an apology and owes the mob on social media an apology for misleading the public through social media.