Penguin2:
The narrative of Peter Obi having been lured away from PDP to LP by Pat Utomi to help divide Atiku’s votes has dominated the front burner since yesterday after the man from Ibadan went on Radio to declare that Obi was just a pawn in Tinubu’s game.

But was Obi really their pawn?7

I am tempted to believe that in the beginning, Obi may have actually been helped to his candidacy by men planted by Tinubu. But then things got of hand.

Things got of hand because people bought into the Obi candidacy. And from being a spoiler to Atiku, he became a real threat to Tinubu who thought Obi’s emergence would help his own ambition.

I would like to also suppose that even the agents who were deployed by Tinubu to ‘deceive’ Obi, now saw that they had a real sight at power and they possibly stopped taking instructions from Tinubu which is why the EFCC came for somebody like Okupe who I’m sure must have been part of Tinubu’s agents.

So, what I’m saying is that the Obi journey may have started with Tinubu’s agents thinking they wanted to deceive Obi to hurt Atiku, but it ended up becoming a tsunami and a conflagration that even Tinubu and his Much touted structure laboured to put out and ended up messing themselves up by rigging the election like children in kindergarten.

In a nutshell, there’s nothing for Tinubu’s boys to celebrate about the revelation that Tinubu funded Obi’s campaign because it turned out becoming a curse on even Tinubu himself.

Obi turned the eggs thrown at him into omelette and and checkmated the one who thought himself master of chess who had to resort to breaking the chessboard to prevent being checkmated.

But let’s see how far he can go with a dubious victory.

Fren232:
Tinubu achieved every one of his target.
He won the presidency, won both Houses of assembly. Retained Lagos.
I'm not sure APC lost any seat to LP, but PDP lost a number of seats to LP
Meaning his plan worked perfectly well

savcy:
This is a well-spinned conspiracy theory, but a conspiracy theory nonetheless. Nothing is further from the truth. Obi left the PDP when it became obvious that money was going to play a significant role in who emerges as flag-bearer, and Atiku, his "senior brother", was pretty clear about his choice of Okowa (whom he chose solely on the basis of his 'war chest' from day one) as V. P. He had nothing of an arrangement with anyone. This cheap attempt to tarnish his image is laughable.

Tinubu only profited from the simple math of subtraction that was the consequence of Obi's candidature. And if we're being fair, an election so flawed cannot even be a legitimate factor in discussing the outcomes of the last election cycle. So, I wouldn't be so bold as to even say Tinubu profited, because he may as well have come third, but we may never know. I mean, there had to be an infraction of process for him to emerge. He may be President, but we can't really use anything from that election to critically discuss anything tangible, because we're not even certain he won.

gidgiddy:
Some people like to talk arrant nonsense

How much would Tinubu give a billonaire like Obi to help him win elections? Theres somethings you hear and you wonder if those that believe it have a brain

If Tinubu sponsored Obi, why would Obi be at the tribunal today fighting Tinubu?

If Tinubu sponsored Obi, what is in it for Obi? How much will you be able to give a billionaire like Obi for him to travel all over Nigeria campaigning, just for another person to win?


Obi ran on his own merit to become President of Nigeria, same as others, and not because of anything to do with Tinubu

DiscoverID:
Of course, even my dog knows that Obi was a cog is atiku's wheel. He was used like a tissue paper he is to destroyed the only chance of booting apc out of office. Dumb, blind leading an online zombies exchanging wild fantasies over the cyberspace, yet. Else, conduct this election a billion times, Peter Obi, a character known for his extreme lies and tendency of creating chaos can't win election in a multi polar nigeria. An extremist with his extreme religious sentiments. Go back and read Soludo's letter to understand that it wasn't a rocket science to see through the shenanigans paraded by obi and his clueless crew.

Before the elections, I staked 10m against 1m and I won 🏆. My good friend lost a million naira.

HacheNoire:
Peter was the vehicle Tinubu used to Aso-Rock.

The moment Peter left PDP, the election was already concluded.

It would have been a very tough one if Atiku and Peter ran together again.

And the biggest loser now is Peter, Shame can’t allow him return to PDP, as that’s the only platform that can get him to presidency if he will ever be.

The game is more thicker than Peter knows, with regards to AFRICAN politics.

unohbethel:
Uncle seunmsg is this really true

Penguin2:


Are you a blind Tinubu supporter or are you ready to have a conversation?

Because I would like to ask you, if your Tinubu and his men were so sure that Atiku and Obi being in different parties would grant him (Tinubu) victory, why did INEC had to switch off the IREV just to conjure numbers for Tinubu?

Why did INEC had to rig Rivers election so scandalously that what is on their portal is different from what they announced?

Obi won Lagos with over 900k votes but was almost halved to help Tinubu’s numbers. Same in Plateau and elsewhere.

Is that the kind of victory you are gloating about?

Penguin2:


This guys know more than we know because they are in the inside.

So, Obi already knew that Atiku had concluded his plans to choose his running mate from the Southsouth and also zeroed in on Okowa. So even if Obi had stayed in PDP Atiku wouldn’t have chosen him as running mate.

Now, are you saying he should have just stayed in PDP and help use his popularity to win the election for PDP while Atiku and Okowa would be feeling like gods?

gidgiddy:
Some people like to talk arrant nonsense

How much would Tinubu give a billonaire like Obi to help him win elections?

gidgiddy:
Some people like to talk arrant nonsense

How much would Tinubu give a billonaire like Obi to help him win elections? Theres somethings you hear and you wonder if those that believe it have a brain

If Tinubu sponsored Obi, why would Obi be at the tribunal today fighting Tinubu?

If Tinubu sponsored Obi, what is in it for Obi? How much will you be able to give a billionaire like Obi for him to travel all over Nigeria campaigning, just for another person to win?


Obi ran on his own merit to become President of Nigeria, same as others, and not because of anything to do with Tinubu

HacheNoire:
Peter was the vehicle Tinubu used to Aso-Rock.

The moment Peter left PDP, the election was already concluded.

It would have been a very tough one if Atiku and Peter ran together again.

And the biggest loser now is Peter, Shame can’t allow him return to PDP, as that’s the only platform that can get him to presidency if he will ever be.

The game is more thicker than Peter knows, with regards to AFRICAN politics.

Penguin2:


I share your position too.

I always ask myself, so if scholars are writing about the voting pattern of 2023 presidential election for academic purposes, they will write that Bola Tinubu won Rivers State?

We all know that would be a flawed research because Rivers people never voted Tinubu and it’s only INEC that would explain where they manufactured figures for him.

So, nobody can use the result of 2023 election for anything after it was viciously rigged to alter the wishes of the people. Same way Tinubu should not gloat of securing victory through the balkanization of PDP because we all know if votes counted he would be sitting in third position.

Raheeqilmaktoom:


You still don't get the point.

Obi needed not know who was behind whatever it is he was being led to, hell, he needn't know that he is being goaded into making certain decisions. Decisions that in the long run helped the other party as is visibly visible now.

Obi's candidature was a huge dent on PDP, he took votes that originally should have gone to PDP on a ratio of atleast 6:3, while APC consolidated it's foothold on its areas of strength - NW that bring in killer numbers where Obi is unknown, SW where the incoming hails from, NC that should have been atleast 60:40 to PDP and NE, PDP candidate's own base where Obi took some votes that would have gone to PDP and the APC not loosing any of it's traditional voters.

This is what happened when people say Obi was Tinubu's path to the presidency, what Obi himself and the mob don't understand.

gidgiddy:


But its not Obi's job to help PDP win, he no longer belonged to the Party.

Before elections, both PDP and APC wrote Peter Obi and the Labour party off. Today, the same people want us to believe that Obi was the deciding factor?

Those who voted APC were the deciding factor

gidgiddy:
Some people like to talk arrant nonsense

How much would Tinubu give a billonaire like Obi to help him win elections? Theres somethings you hear and you wonder if those that believe it have a brain

If Tinubu sponsored Obi, why would Obi be at the tribunal today fighting Tinubu?

If Tinubu sponsored Obi, what is in it for Obi? How much will you be able to give a billionaire like Obi for him to travel all over Nigeria campaigning, just for another person to win?


Obi ran on his own merit to become President of Nigeria, same as others, and not because of anything to do with Tinubu

Raheeqilmaktoom:


Obi doesn't belong to the PDP and owes the party maybe nothing, as you say.

However, his candidature was in the best interest of the APC, he divided PDPs votes and made the APC candidate winner, simple and ABC.