aswani:
So Obi's lawyers are no longer saying president Tinubu was convicted as per their petition, they are now talking about forfeiture. Effectively, we are now been told that he should be disqualified because he didn't appeal a forfeiture order.

True story from the US state of California . A hitman killed a serving police officer and somehow a police informant led the police to him.

The police case wasn't strong and in truth, though they wanted to nail him, they looked at the bigger picture. They did a deal with him whereby he was never convicted but he told them who hired him and served as a witness in court for the prosecution in the case against the officer that hired him who later got convicted.

No charges were brought against the hitman and he is still goes about his life without being treated as a felon though he has sworn on oath that he committed a murder.

Point is, like President Tinubu, the hitman might have been a naughty boy but he was never convicted of a crime to assume the status of a felon and can still vote (not sure if Cali is one of the states that barr convicted felons from voting sha).

On a side note, do Obi's lawyers even know the difference between a misdemeanor, felony or grand lacerny? If I pick up a parking fine in the US, would those bunch of jokers claim I can't contest as president?

It's a shame Obi didn't hire them pro bono, this case would have ended ages ago.

Its obvious u didn't read the petition .

Jack500:


Go school,you no gree, you keep embarassing your parents.

Inec is a defendant in this case, inec has to defend herself too, because Atiku/PDP carry them to court too.

You are uneducated. Inec is the referee and all they needed to do is tender document to prove tinubu won . U and I know it obvious they are taking sides. They are not a political party. They just need to prove tinubu won by showing the document of how he won

dam2000:
The fight wike is fighting his party is happening in labour party his endorsing presidential candidate south national chairman south director general south.and stupid zombie r praising him continue the north will teach una lesson and stupid wike will remain useless after 2023.

Their chairman is from benue . Stop talking like a child

MultiDot:
This Wike is really high on something, imagine an ingrate of the worst level like him describing someone else an ingrate. Always driven by narcism in all his actions and inactions.

How is wike and ingrate?
How was he betrayed?

Abujason:
Can this man go and rest. Imagine having him as VP to Atiku. It will be fight everyday.

Did you watch the video?
Sometimes I wonder if una be robots

asanausana91:
It is suspicious that Wike want to install a man that is loyal to tinubu so that Atiku will lose the election. If that is not true, why can't Wike wait until after the election.
The process of the election has already started, why would wike want them to change the chairman?
If they change the chairman at this time of the game then PDP should be ready to lose the election.

Please watch the video sir . If ayu had resigned as agreed after the election we won't have this issue. Did you watch the video?

oyinkel:
And talking about Integrity, didn’t Wike vow during the primaries that he would support whoever emerged as the party candidate with everything he’s got?

Please watch the video and stop commenting off point . Did you watch the video?

fof1:


Gov.Wike is also Arrogant and Ungrateful too...for being not Sober and Thankful for the Privileges ACCORDED him under the PDP...from his Beginning to Date... You are very Disrespectful to Talk to Ur Party Chairman like that... Have You been Grateful to All the People that Helped You ascend ur Leadership LADDER? Pls Tell Our Friend...Wike to Behave.

Debunk what he said in the video. Did he lie?

Bar1941:
Wike is gradually going gaga and needs to be chained to avoid further public exhibition of lunacy. Why is he attacking everyone simply because he lost a primary election? Atiku was right for not choosing this arrogant overrated tout as his running mate.

Please listen to the video

tesppidd:


I thought Wike said it's not his suit? Wike is so confused right now.

All that dancing we see him doing on podiums is all just to camouflage his sifia pains and confusion...

Support Tinubu and he becomes automatic enemy of most of his asskissers in Rivers state; with Tinubu not even willing to accept his demands.

Support Obi and he runs the risk of being on the losing side cus Obi is still for now the 3rd candidate in terms of winning likelihood.

Wike should just bend a little and reconcile with PDP, that's his best bet.

I thought you are smart ?
Why are you acting and talking like a child . The headline is misleading..wike never sued atiku.

Ezewuzie01:
Peter Obituary has been sabotaging the national economy with cheap imports for decades, killing local industries in the process. He dishes out lies as regularly as he can but nobody is buying it except his IPOB followers. His supermarket in Abuja which he built with looted Anambra money went up in flames last year as the prayers of Anambra people against his looting started working.

Even God read this and he was �. What will you gain by � lying

ccjoe:
hmm..so wat shud I do now..watz d solution, letz not dwell on d past..

Abortion

ceaser:
Okay. Here is the plot, or so it seems.

Flashback to 2015. There has been serious uproar about how GEJ was handling his presidency vis-a-vis insecurity and the corruption amongst his ministers especially that of the oil minister and Stella oduah. The problem that seemed to stand out from others was the supposed overbearing attitude of his wife (Patience Jonathan) that made many to make her the butt of jokes and even GEJ was blamed for handing over governance to her.

She was truly overbearing because this was reflected at a PDP stakeholders meeting when Amaechi Chibuike (the present minister for works) was talking at the podium. Patience Jonathan went straight to the podium and snatched the microphone from Amaechi and began to berate him. Amaechi, pain and embarrassed, could not do much because she is the president's wife so he went to sit down but later moved out of the meeting. This was all televised on national TV. Although other untoward attitudes of Patience had unsettled some PDP stalwarts before this incidence, but that one with Amaechi marked the start of disintegration of the PDP under GEJ. The PDP governors of the North had been considering backing out of the party. Now a willing tool in the person of Amaechi had been discovered.

Tinubu (of ACN as at then) was watching all these as it transpired. Then he noted the friction between Amaechi and patience and also the already weakening alliance of PDP governors of the North. He decided that was a moment to strike!

That week that Patience Jonathan shamed Amaechi at the podium, he (Amaechi) was invited by Tinubu and then the various defections and counter PDP moves began. Then what followed was the alliance talks to form the APC from ACN of the North (which received majority of the disgruntled PDP northern governors) and ACN of the south which already had strong presence within the atates of the South west. Amaechi who was hitherto a strong PDP link and PDP stalwart in the south south and south east regions had been shamed by Patience and was now a potential weak link to the party in that region. Tinubu approached him and formed an alliance with him, so began the war to bring down the ruling party.

Fast forward to 2022 and a similar trend is playing out. Wike incontrovertibly is a strong man to be reckoned with in PDP, for it was him who provided the emotional and financial war chest all those times that PDP flimsily hung on to relevance. He kept the spirit of the party alive all through those years when even GEJ who is an ex-president on the party could not muster his own strenght and relevance to pull the party together and hold the people united. Wike braved it all and held the party to be relevant in tbe South South and South East. He had alliances with DAPO Abiodun of Oyo and kept in touch with the vocal Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti in the south west, who also vowed to be a die hard PDP man.

All these while Atiku, who is notorious for whimsically adulterating political parties like a petulant child changes toys, was lounging in Dubai. And when the time came for Wike (who now believes that he had the right to the presidency on the platform of the party he has held together), and truly who wouldn't aspire for such too, Atiku jetted back into Nigeria to snatch that moment from Wike, enabled by his northern brother who Wike had also trusted until the last minute when he stepped down for Atiku, paving the way for him (Atiku) to have a majority vote against Wike.

Wike has the arsenal to decimate the PDP as far as the south south and partially the south east is concerned and this is a fact the Northern PDP should realize. Wike is pained and rightfully so on three fronts:

First, he felt cheated that someone who was not with him all the years he invested into the party came overnight and clinched the slot from him accompanied by the betrayal of Kwakawanso which allowed Atiku to win the primaries.

Second, the unwritten zoning agreement within the party which if strictly adhered to, should favour the unanimous emergence of Wike as a Southern aspirant on the party platform has just been broken with the insistence of Atiku to contest the primaries.

Third, an undeserving Atiku after winning the primaries amidst backstabbing should as a matter of sportsmanship, akin to what Tinubu did, approached the other contestants especially Wike and forged a proper alliance with him. This alliance should possibly include the promise of the vice presidency slot to him, irrespective of the fact that Wkie publicly declared that he will never be a second hand man (vice president) in Nigeria. But Atiku made no such attempt. Even after a party committee was set up to chose between Wike and Ifeanyi Okowa, at which point Atiku had the free pass to appease Wike, he still decided to chose Okowa. This is of course apparent in Atiku's fear that Wike is a man like him - difficult, egoistic, rebellious, corrupt, sometimes recalcitrant and a potential troublemaker; all problems that Obasanjo had from Atiku as his vice president. So Atiku will not love to have the same sword he used passed over his own head, thus his choice of Ifeanyi Okowa, a more malleable person, as his running mate.

Now Tinubu has seen this crack and like a reharsh of 2015 strategy, has gone for the southern strongman of the party, with the hopes of forging an alliance and decimating the chances of the party in the south south, and maybe in the south east, come 2023 general elections.

I sincerely feel that if BAT could claim "investment in the APC" as a reason for a right of passage for him to emerge a candidate in his party, why can't Wike also claim same in PDP? This is irrespective of the fact that this strategy may be counterproductive as it did with the APC who lost the chance to field an egghead like Osinbajo as her candidate, a choice which would have prevented the problems associated with a Muslim-Muslim ticket and a move which would as well placed the APC a formidable opponent towards the rising popularity of Peter Obi who many is seeing as a viable alternative to the vibrancy, great health, oratory prowess and youthful strenght that they were denied in Osinbajo the moment he was stopped from emerging a candidate of the APC.

But at this point, an egoistic Wike will not mind sinking the PDP just so to prove his point. And an equally egoistic Atiku will not mind pushing his luck to the last just so to prove that Wike is irrelevant. Two points of return has been passed. The first point of repair was immediate post primaries when Atiku could have appeased Wike with something as ordinary as an official visit to him in Rivers state, the second point of repair being his chance to choose Wike as running mate. Sadly a point of no return has been reached and for the two giants, is a fight to the finish.




While your claim of placeholder deserves consideration, you are indeed wrong in the bolded. Yar'Adua had what is called Mennier's disease which had many complications associated with it, renal problems included. It was just a matter of time before the inevitable happened.

Tinubu on the other hand appears to be suffering from an early onset of the problems of advancing age. Some people like OBJ, are blessed with delayed onset of these inevitables. What this means is that there is no chance for rapid deterioration in health like it happened in Yar'Adua's case. So BAT may go an uneventful 8 years.

But truly, I still have my concerns, for an ailing BAT is incomparable to an energetic Òsínbàjó and Peter Òbí. However, time is the only referee in this instance.

Having said that, I hope that whoever clinches this position between the duo of Tinubu or Peter Obi should as a matter of urgency start moves, subtle, covert or otherwise to commence true federalism if he really wants to show Nigerians that he has their best interests at heart.

The productive people are bleeding and the goose that lays the golden egg is being starved. And this is serious injustice that must be addressed first to ensure that every other thing falls in line. Obasanjo brought some semblance of balance into the polity when he became the president and the peace was apparent in his reign.

True federalism will significantly reduce the power in the centre, thereby reducing the perennial struggle for the seat in Abuja between the various ethnicities and nationalities in this country. A sanwó-olú in Lagos will not be desperate to clinch the seat in Aṣọ Rock because the monies there will not even be worth the trouble. He will prefer to see the presidency more as prestige than as enrichment. He will rather stay in Lagos where the money is and the citizens will also be a winner because they can hold their governor who is closer to them in a small Lagos to account better than they can do to a Sanwó Olú in a larger, more difficult to administer Nigeria.

Also true federalism could be a first baby steps to regional system of governance that brought the much needed developments to all the regions at their own pace in those previous golden years of Nigeria. No thanks to Aguiyi-Ironsi who destroyed such lofty and great arrangement that plunged us back into the abbyss. If we experiment with true federalism for some years, we can decide if it is best we retain it or move again to trying out regional system.

I swear I read every single thing . This is awesome. You broke down the problem

Successlane:



It's not too much, but it's stupid and irrational.

Go and learn by reading how the national chairman came to be, in the first place, then you will know you are on the very wrong side of democratic realities.
I'm a fan to none of them.

Baba, you are unwise bro.
He said it himself he will resign during the primary election. Don't try and paint things in a way you see it . This is a know fact .

iLoveYouToo:



Not once did he mention Secondus’ name

This guys are paid to tarnish wike image

Alphasoar:

After election? Signed resignation when. Which of the party members is aware of this?

That guy is talking nonsense.. him be olodo

SmartyPants:


Childish? That's politics...you think they are eating ice cream there?

Thats basic power play.

That's guy na olodo

racerve:



This argument is a red herring.

What happens if Atiku loses the election? Will Ayu be reinstated?

Oga, let me educate you. The flag bearer and chairman can't be from the north. If ayu has resigned like he said on national TV and During the major stake holder meeting that he will then we won't have this discussion. Baba no body is bigger than pdp constitution. Ayu must be ready to sacrifice himself because that's the party policy and constitution

desiredhome:


If you don't understand the first paragraph, it means wike is not fighting for the interest of the southern youths,......as a governor of a state like Rivers State, how are the youths fairing? (Charity begins at home),...The major job he created for the youths are taskforce/ogbo-aja for Julius Berger........

Wike no send you.......he will rather work against the PDP because he lost..... that is very childish behavior.........

You are talking like a child .
You are a lost soul.

desiredhome:

There's nothing like southern youths......it's all about wike's personal ambition/interest......

Which ambition. Did you see him buy a senate form. Just shut up if you don't know what to say . What is atiku fighting for ?
The northerners are turning pdp constitution upside down and you expect him to be an ass licker ?
What kind of human being are you ?
That's why they call us second class citizens because of politicians like you

SmartyPants:


Do you see why the South cannot be great?

From day one, Wike has been pushing southern interests but southern youths are here running him down.

But I don't blame them because they don't even understand the issues. Their own is to read nairaland headlines and type the next thing that comes to mind.

Most people here are dumb . I swear to God..someone is here fighting for southerner interest and they are her saying nonsense. Wike talk to much but you would never accuse of being a betrayal or liar.

ogmask:


Was that why he framed Secondus and removed him? He should test his own medicine too.
He had his brother there but decided to rubbish him because he, wike, was eyeing the presidency. Which normal person will vote wike as president for did country sef. Look at the way he is using the judiciary, especially rivers state judiciary, to do his dirty bidding. You only hear him cry the way he has been crying when he can't buy his way thru. Enough of all the preaching about loyalty abeg. When secondus was state PDP chairman wike was begging Mary Odili to talk to her husband to make him LGA chairman. When the likes of secondus and Abiye sekibo was fighting Ameachi then in the PDP before Ameachi defected where was wike.

Listen bro, wike said it himself, all the southern governors and major stake holder agreed to remove secondus. Stop talking as if he decided it by himself. And the reason they did that was because the ticket would be zone to the south.

asanausana91:
NO agreement is higher than the constitution. Did pdp agree that power should return to the south?
Don't forget that 2011 was supposed to be for the northerners but gej insisted on contesting.
Wike is not more than the party and Atiku will win with or without Wike.

Oga , 2019, they agreed the power would go to the north . That's why no Southern governors and politicians contested against atiku In 2019. Atiku that has never won elections since 1992 will win?
Are you sure you are thinking straight. It's a normal reasoning. For equity justice and fairness, you can't allowed a northerner to rule after 8 years of buhari.

Alphasoar:

Because power was supposed to return to the south which all sounthern governors agreed to, even their northern counterpart affirmed. So Secondus had to leave. Now that the flag bearer is from the north, how wise is it that the chairman also be from the north again?

Please ask them . This guys are not wise at all. They don't even understand how politics works

mrksquare:


Enemy you mean? Even when the person in question he is labelling as enemy is the presidential flagbearer of his party?

Isn't party supremacy suppose to be paramount at this stage? And why do Wike want his party men from Rivers state to begrudge his enemy?

What Wike is doing is akin to a father telling his son not to greet his uncle owing to the disagreement the former is having with the latter.

Because the uncle might poison him or hurt the father through the son

ArmaniUhuru:

His rivers brother Secondus was chairman. He fought and made sure Secondus was removed. Everyone supported him in that quest. Now he wants this one removed again. Everything can’t be going his way.

How can a man who want to unify Nigeria be misbehaving . This are signs, if he becomes president it would be worse .
Ayu was suppose to be unbiased during the primaries even if he was to work for atiku . He can't be trusted. How can you expect wike camp to trust a man that went back on his word . Someone who announced he wil step down and his refusing to step down, how can you trust such persons. Be sincere with your self .. in 2019 no southern contested against atiku. Now they rigged and threw it open. Now you have a northerner has president and you don't want the chairman to come to the south. Shame on you �. I repeat shame on you

ArmaniUhuru:

His rivers brother Secondus was chairman. He fought and made sure Secondus was removed. Everyone supported him in that quest. Now he wants this one removed again. Everything can’t be going his way.

Sometimes I ask myself this questions.
Do you guys read?
Or you just follow trend ?
It's against pdp constitution for the flag bearer and chairman to be from same region.
The youth leader, flag bearer, BoT and national chairman are all from the North.
Ayu him self announced on national TV before the primaries and even on the day of the primaries that he would step down if a northerner emerges.
Since then what happened?
He refused to step down?
Do you think wike is the only one aggrieved here . They are sidelining the south politicians.
Now ayu does not want to resign.
Why is atiku and ayu going against the constitution?
Are they bigger than the party?

7arrows:


Why wasting ur time explain to him. He has a mind set. So just free him i beg

I swear that guy na child

tunjijones:


Was obansanjo aliku political God father? Why didn't I call Jonathan sambo God father.

Except we want to lie to ourselves, atiku is obi's God father politically and obi has never for once hidden it even now that he has left PDP.

Let me school you. Obi didn’t start from pdp. Obi started from an unknown party called apga. The party was formed by Obi and ojukwu without any structure or anything . Obi was a billionaire before joining politics. This is some who bought a house for a million pounds 30 years ago. The party that was formed less than 1 years won just like how labor party is now . They didn’t have any senator , no house or rep nothing , nothing . He was impeached twice because he refused to inflate and signed on padded budget and contract and he won on both occasion even though it took longer time . That’s who he started , don’t think he started from grace or something . A party that just started and was new he won against pdp then . After spending 8 years , now Anambra is now an apga state , he came to pdp because apga is not a national party. So tell me how is atiku is God father ?

tunjijones:


Was obansanjo aliku political God father? Why didn't I call Jonathan sambo God father.

Except we want to lie to ourselves, atiku is obi's God father politically and obi has never for once hidden it even now that he has left PDP.

I’d give you 10k . Look for an Atiku or anything that Obi or anyone called Atiku Obi God father and I’d give you 10k free of charge . Drop the link to the Atiku or video . And you said Obi didn’t hide it . Show me a picture , video or link where Obi admitted atiku is his God father and get 10k

tunjijones:


Was obansanjo aliku political God father? Why didn't I call Jonathan sambo God father.

Except we want to lie to ourselves, atiku is obi's God father politically and obi has never for once hidden it even now that he has left PDP.

I don’t want to insult you but you don’t know what God fatherism is or means . I knew you heard it somewhere and just crammed it . Calm down , check dictionary and go to google and understand what it means to be a God father . I don’t want to throw insults but you are talking like someone who is young and new into politics.

Tayorshd2:
So does that qualifies him to be better than tinubu and atiku

What makes him better is this .
He is healthier , younger and smarter than both of them .
His source of wealth , education and age is not questionable.
He has vast experience both in public and private sectors . He has chain of business and does not need government funds to stay relevant just like how Atiku and tinubu because stupidly rich.
He stopped collecting pension and gratitude Since he left office .
He has over 20 years of is tax records , them no born Atiku and tinubu to bring their . The list is on and On