Donshegxy10:


it is a shame on you that you could not galvanise people to vote despite those wonderful credentials.

foolish people like you think election is won by qualifications, instead of you to market your candidate you will be creating nuisance on social media, just for few likes.

Dont worry, in a matter of days you will still be humiliated yet again.

It's you and your households that will be humiliated and disgraced. Stupid idiot.

Karlovich:
Name- disputed
Age- disputed
Origin- disputed
Educational qualifications- disputed

#Nigerians choose wisely in 2023

Nigerians will choose wisely in 2023 and certainly not Peter Obi

ThEGodFaThEr131:

It's me and my households that will be humiliated and disgraced. I am a Stupid idiot.

thats right.

I have never commented on your thread because you smell of hatred, hypocricy, bitterness and trouble.

You did not dissapoint.

I've never read anything more trashy than this on my entire life. List educational qualifications,this one came here with Bible verse saying he is smart. Yolobas and dumb smartness is incredible

SlyDev:
Ask many igbos they know BAT is smarter than Okwute.

I understand you are tired of playing second to mighty Yoruba, na how God create you under Yoruba greatness.

I'm happy to be Yoruba, we are blessed

00FFT00:


He who charges must also prove.

Can you enumerate for us what Tinubu achieved as a two-term Governor in Lagos?. I am aware that Lagosians can not drink water from taps powered by their government nor do they have succor from filth and traffic gridlock.

Please list em.

Morning my brother,
You enquire to know what Tinubu did for 8 yeear as governor of Lagos State. Ok

Economy.
During Tinubu term in office, several economic policies were initiated. The first of it's kind was Privatise State government businesses through PPP and other method. Eko Hotel and some other major businesses of state are sold to private investors to manage. Lagos State only holds between 30% to 40% of shareholding. Those businesses had always been making losses until the Lagos state privatised them. Evidence is the Billions of naira to Lagos state government as dividend.

Lagos PPP has also help a long way. Tinubu signed and started the Lekki Free Trade Zone with the same model. He only brought investors and give them land to develop the infrastructure, Lagos state has 25 to 30% in the profit once operational. Today you have the like of Dangote refinery and over 100 foreign companies with FDI in billions of dollars. They will all pay personal income tax to state government.

Lekki deep sea port is another example. Lagos state signed with Tolaram and China Harbour to build about $3billion port in lekki. Tolaram and China Harbours hold 75%, Lagos state government hold 20% while federal government hold 5% through NPA.

Eko Atlantic is another feasible example. Bar beach was a disaster that was waiting to happen but Tinubu turn it to opportunity for Lagos state. The sea was eroding the coastal road. All occupants along the coastal area abandoned their building and fled. Tinubu took the matter to Obasanjo the president but he was turn down. He manned up. That's what gives birth to eko Atlantic. It's also a Private Investment with Lagos state holding certain percentage. Billions of dollars is also flowing in. America Consulate just announced the kick off of their 500million dollar structure in eko Atlantic. When fully operational, Billions of naira will be paid as taxes to state government.
These are just a few on economy.

SECURITY
Tinubu initiated Police Trust Fund where public can co join state government to fund police. That gave birth to Rapid Respond Squard. Money raised were used to buy Harmon vehicle, and other securities apparatus.
LASMA was also initiated.
The goal of Government was to ensure a safer environment for investor to come, invest and recover their investment.

TRANSPORTATION
I don't need to bore you with long BRT, the Train track, Water way etc were all design and some started by Tinubu

LEGAL
There was massive judicial reforms in Lagos state that all the state came to learn and adopted including Federal government. ADR, Office of the Public Defender, etc

Then you can now talk of road, power etc.

When Tinubu started, Lagos was making 600 millions naira per month, but with the vision and policies set, Lagos is making over 50billion naira per month. Federal government did not make Lagos. Lagos governors work hard.

Now to Peter Obi.
I may not know what he did in Anambra, so help list them.
Innosan motor and other industrialist have no business coming to clear container at Lagos port and transport same at almost a million naira per trailer, if any governor in the east could just engage private investors to build port in Anambra. They are all waiting for federal government.

Let's support Soludo as he promised to build one.

More importantly, ESN should stop the menance in the East if you want investor to come in. Without a safer environment, even Soludo with all the wonderful ideas will not be able to achieve anything.

dwas:


Morning my brother,
You enquire to know what Tinubu did for 8 yeear as governor of Lagos State. Ok

A Very good morning to you my brother.

First, can I thank you for a very mature, concise, and elaborate response to my inquiry?. This is a stark departure from the divisive ethnic vitriol that has become the order of the day on this platform, a welcome dose of fresh air for me, and directly represents the type of conversation we ought to be having as concerned citizens of our dear country regardless of our diverse tribal affiliations or political convictions.

I will respond to your well-articulated intervention in due time because I'm one foot out of the door as I write. Duty calls. Please permit me to get back to you on this same subject, and my response at this time only serves as a placeholder.

I'll be back. Thank you.


Continuation...

@ dwas. I have to mention you to call your attention back to our discussion. I responded to a gentleman on a very similar thread and I thought that my response is germane to the issues raised here so my response would have been the same anyways. I replicate that intervention below almost verbatim and hope that It answers even if intrinsically to your inquiry:

So, that's a fair intervention brother. I share the same concern regarding what I considered the Asiwaju's age-related health decline and wished he rightly remained a statesman, but also, his reputation outside our borders with regards to his past legal troubles in the United States remains a source of worry to me.

Surely, you and I will agree that we cannot afford to have a president who may be amenable to blackmail by foreign interests.

Now, Ahmed Bola Tinubu is also without blame for the calamity named Buhari that has befallen Nigeria. To put the above statement into context, without Ahmed Tinubu and Chibuike Amaechi, there will be no Buhari in Aso Rock today. Therefore, these two gentleman also bears the blame for the state of play in the lives of Nigerians as we currently experience.

That being said. I am obviously a Peter Obi supporter. I think our country urgently needs a man who is unencumbered in any sense. An Efcc-less president if you will.

Peter Obi is competent, having privately grown and successfully managed a number of companies. He has sat on boards of top Nigerian companies including banks.

Peter was a two-time governor of unarguably the most difficult state to govern in Nigeria, Anambra State. Anambra State is the only State to my memory, so beholden to cabal interests that a sitting governor, the current federal minister of labor, Dr. Chris Ngige was kidnapped in broad daylight and held hostage inside the trunk of a car.

This was the state of play when Mr. Peter Obi became the governor in a state bereft of the most rudimentary and basic infrastructures. It was so bad that the man operated from his father's house as governor.

The first order of governance for the new governor was to streamline government business and organize state structures and finances so that the people's business can begin in earnest and flourish.

To do that, he needed to step on very big toes. Peter Obi was twice impeached by these same vested interest groups, and he fought back to regain his mandate and successfully consigned these enemies of the people to the dustbin of history so that Anambrarians can breathe again. This is one of the capacities most needed in today's Nigerian president if he is to successfully discharge his duties to us.

Today, and thanks to Peter Obi, Anambra State has some of the best road networks inter-connecting every nook and cranny of the state regardless of what Chris Ngige the Fulani stooge just told you.

Peter Obi built well over 800 kilometers of rural roads to open up virtually every community in Anambra State. He even had to reconstruct federal roads with state funds in keeping with his determination to deliver governance to the Anambra people and the refunds are still pending.

Mr. Peter Obi sanitized, repositioned, and quickly catapulted Anambra State's education sector and its students from a very low and unacceptable 24th position in the waec and neco index to 1st position for 3 consecutive years.

Below, please find some of this man's achievements as a partial list below:

1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 Million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.

2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as the United States, Britain, Russia, the European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, and Canada, among others, visited the State. Before his tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.

3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union, etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.

4. He was recognized as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programs in Nigeria.

5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.

6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.

7. The State’s ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners – Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.

8. The State also entered into a strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 Million Dollars in various types of support.

10. Through a partnership with the Church in the Health sector, governor Peter Obi's Government funded the transformation of -:

a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunization in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. Fabrice Campoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.

18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built its first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged by our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which Governor Peter Obi's government purchased more than 1,000 vehicles.

20. Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including the provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.

21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.

22. Governor Peter Obi's administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Teaching Hospital in Awka.

23. Peter Obi's government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).

24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion – National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) – to Anambra State.

25. Governor Peter Obi's government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of his administration's poverty-alleviation strategies.

26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha, and Nnewi.

27. During his tenure and with his Government’s support, Anambra State became an oil-producing State.

28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.

29. His government commenced the development of the ‘Three Arms Zone’ comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.

30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when he took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.

31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinized State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID.

As a macro and micromanager, a bank CEO, Peter Obi understood the importance of SMEs to an economy. He quickly set about empowering this sector to help grow the state economy.

As has been outlined above, ne of the many results of this forward-thinking is Innoson motor manufacturing in Nnewi. Governor Peter Obi made a 5 billion naira down payment to purchase all government vehicles from this indigenous manufacturer way before a single bolt was screwed into a body panel.

Today the success story that is Innoson motors in knowledge to every Nigeria, and that is just if of the many startups whose success is directly attributable to Peter Obi's foresight.

To assure prudence and eliminate wastage in public expenditure and stay in conformity with the country's constitution, governor Obi promptly abolished the office of the first lady in the state.

The security situation in Anambra State when governor Obi resumed work in Awka can be best described as miserable. Anambrarians did not sleep with even one eye closed.

Governor Peter Obi quickly convened and entrenched a new State security architecture that allowed every community to have government-paid and equipped security operatives. The peace and security enjoyed today in Anambra was Peter Obi's brainchild because as he has said himself, you cannot prosper economically if people's lives and properties are not secured.

As I stated earlier, Anambra state is a relatively new entity with next to nothing in terms of governance structures and infrastructure cannot be compared to a former federal capital, and in fact still a commercial capital with a massive and ongoing federal presence, Lagos,

Mr. Peter Obi as he would like to be called, a man with absolute humility and goodwill across all states of this country, succeeded in bringing Anambra State forward, entrenched order and security in an environment of crass lawlessness, grew the state IGR by plugging loopholes and providing an SME friendly environment, sanitized the education sector.

He connected the most remote community to the state's road network just to mention very few of this man's lofty achievements in a state where next to nothing except criminality and godfatherism was functional when he resumed office as an unprepared state governor who had to take over at a moments notice.

I am super excited to see what a more matured and experienced Peter Obi will do achieve president of Nigeria.

It might be beneficial to note that in all of this, governor Obi paid all retirement benefits. Pensions and gratuity benefits of all Anambra State employees were settled. All salaries were paid and on maturity.

Governor Obi succeeded in building a fallback purse for the Anambra people in the amount of 156 million US dollars and 75 billion naira respectively. These funds, the 156 million dollars are still bonded in 3 Nigerian banks where they have now grown to over 180 million dollars assuming successive governments made no additional contribution to the original lodgement.

Let us remember that this is a country where governors not only boldly embezzle State government funds but also abuse the funds of the third tier of government, the local government. These governors go on to assume foreign debts they have no reasonable means to repay. This was the reason president Olusegun Obasanjo withheld Lagos State funds because the governor at the time, Ahmed Bola Tinubu was accused of this infringement.

Mr. Peter Obi never took a loan as governor of Anambra State. All states projects were executed within the confined of the state's statutory allocation and internally generated revenues, yet on valediction, he left the people of the state a whopping surplus.

This is in the same state where we are now told that the new government inherited a 300 billion naira debt profile.

I was once told that a minimum of 60 percent of all containers imported through Lagos ports went east. We need to understand what this means in terms of economic value and conjuncture.

You can't wake up and build a port in Nigeria unless the relevant federal interests say so. The southeast has cried their voices sore asking for the Niger river to be dredged. Lagos did not build Apapa and Tincal Island ports but immensely benefits from both in terms of direct revenue and macroeconomic value. What would Peter Obi do with a fully functional river port at Onitsha or Ulasi?.

To summarize for lack of time on my part. If we are to enumerate this man's suitability for the job he now told us he would wish to assume if we give him the opportunity over his peers will require a lot more time and space which I, unfortunately, can hardly spare at the moment.

Lastly, suffice it to say that Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu operated in 2 completely different systems and environments.

If we dispassionately analyze the odds against these men when they operated in the capacity as governors, it will be fair to say that Mr. Obi had the shorter, way shorter end of the stick, yet succeeded immensely.

The question we ought to be asking ourselves is, what would Peter Obi have made out of Lagos with its already established and enabled environment?.

In contribution to the comment regarding ESN, my feeling is that ESN unfortunately is a necessary evil. Evil in the sense that acts unconnected to the original intent if its establishment is now accusatorily ascribed to it.

But all of these are still allegations because if one looks critically at the antecedents of this Fulani government, it will be difficult, if not impossible to arrive at a conclusion that it is not contrived to disparage and lay to waste, the many gains of these brave men who successfully dislodged its anointed foot soldiers, the Fulani jihadist murderers from all across the southeast and parts of south-south geo-political zones.

Folks can go to farms again and sleep with both eyes closed in these places, unlike the carnage and sorrow that continues to befall our people in the middle belt where mass graves and bloodshed have become a common happenstance.

To that, I say a very hearty kudos and thank you to ESN, and the Fulani rulers of Nigeria can decide to call off both their clandestine siege of the southeast in the name of unknown gunmen and regular troops paid for with our taxes and natural resources to which their brethren contribute nothing.

But I completely agree with you, sanity must now return to the Southeast, and the sure way to achieve that will be to find a political solution to the Nnamdi Kanu situation.

I apologize for deviating from the topic, but who can blame anyone in today's Nigeria for becoming emotionally subsumed in the face of what we are now faced with.

I submit!.

Jlow2:
you think is nigeria were gworo seller goes to a university in a desert and collect certificate he knows nothing about,j just because the VC is his tribe and religion, that why nigeria has refused to work, incompetent people everywer, still battling with 17th century challenges, power, health care, portable water, good roads etc, in 21thcentury, it's a pity we share same space with elements like you

The problem with Nigeria are people like you who don't know what educational qualifications are.

If it is not a diploma or a degree, then it is not an educational qualification.

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alanto:

This one off me. I changed my mind. I'm no more submitting my initial comment

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BluntTheApostle:


The problem with Nigeria are people like you who don't know what educational qualifications are.

If it is not a diploma or a degree, then it is not an educational qualification.

so what is it?

00FFT00:


Who be your brethren?. Oga answer question wey I ask jor.

Okay my Nigga. Consider Tinubu that appointed and nominated many non-Lagosians including non-Yorubas into high and sensitive positions, then think of the man Peter Obi who cannot point to one person he has helped in his life apart from ex-Governor Obiano whose wife recently got a brain reset slap.

Tinubu is more qualified than any of the other clowns pretending to be in contest with Tinubu. It's just his health that we are not sure of.

If I were Tinubu, I will put forward the Judas Osinbajo to contest and remain as the godfather of all godfathers. Unfortunately, Tinubu thinks otherwise, and I respect his opinion on this because he understands his health more than I am seeing from afar.

Karlovich:
Name- disputed
Age- disputed
Origin- disputed
Educational qualifications- disputed

#Nigerians choose wisely in 2023

But

Achievement as a governor - indisputable
Achievement as a politician - No 1 in Africa

simpleseyi:


Okay my Nigga. Consider Tinubu that appointed and nominated many non-Lagosians including non-Yorubas into high and sensitive positions, then think of the man Peter Obi who cannot point to one person he has helped in his life apart from ex-Governor Obiano whose wife recently got a brain reset slap.

Tinubu is more qualified than any of the other clowns pretending to be in contest with Tinubu. It's just his health that we are not sure of.

If I were Tinubu, I will put forward the Judas Osinbajo to contest and remain as the godfather of all godfathers. Unfortunately, Tinubu thinks otherwise, and I respect his opinion on this because he understands his health more than I am seeing from afar.

Brilliant response.

simpleseyi:


Okay my Nigga. Consider Tinubu that appointed and nominated many non-Lagosians including non-Yorubas into high and sensitive positions, then think of the man Peter Obi who cannot point to one person he has helped in his life apart from ex-Governor Obiano whose wife recently got a brain reset slap.

Tinubu is more qualified than any of the other clowns pretending to be in contest with Tinubu. It's just his health that we are not sure of.

If I were Tinubu, I will put forward the Judas Osinbajo to contest and remain as the godfather of all godfathers. Unfortunately, Tinubu thinks otherwise, and I respect his opinion on this because he understands his health more than I am seeing from afar.

So, that's a fair intervention brother. I share the same concern regarding what I considered the Asiwaju's age-related health decline and wished he rightly remained a statesman, but also, his reputation outside our borders with regards to his past legal troubles in the United States remains a source of worry to me.

Surely, you and I will agree that we cannot afford to have a president who may be amenable to blackmail by foreign interests.

Now, Ahmed Bola Tinubu is also without blame for the calamity named Buhari that has befallen Nigeria. To put the above statement into context, without Ahmed Tinubu and Chibuike Amaechi, there will be no Buhari in Aso Rock today. Therefore, this two gentleman also bears the blame for the state of play in the lives of Nigerians as we currently experience.

That being said. I am obviously a Peter Obi supporter. I think our country urgently needs a man who is unencumbered in any sense. An Efcc-less president if you will.

Peter Obi is competent, having privately grown and successfully managed a number of companies. He has sat on boards of top Nigerian companies including banks.

Peter was a two-time governor of unarguably the most difficult state to govern in Nigeria, Anambra State. Anambra State is the only State to my memory, so beholden to cabal interests that a sitting governor, the current federal minister of labor, Dr. Chris Ngige was kidnapped in broad daylight and held hostage inside the trunk of a car.

This was the state of play when Mr. Peter Obi became the governor in a state bereft of the most rudimentary and basic infrastructures. It was so bad that the man operated from his father's house as governor.

The first order of governance for the new governor was to streamline government business and to organize state structures and finances so that the people's business can begin in earnest and flourish.

To do that, he needed to step on very big toes. Peter Obi was twice impeached by these same vested interest groups, and he fought back to regain his mandate and successfully consigned these enemies of the people to the dustbin of history so that Anambrarians can breathe again. This is one of the capacities most needed in today's Nigerian president if he is to successfully discharge his duties to us.

Today, and thanks to Peter Obi, Anambra State has some of the best road networks inter-connecting every nook and cranny of the state regardless of what Chris Ngige the Fulani stooge just told you.

Peter Obi built well over 800 kilometers of rural roads to open up virtually every community in Anambra State. He even had to reconstruct federal roads with state funds in keeping with his determination to deliver governance to the Anambra people and the refunds are still pending.

Mr. Peter Obi sanitized, repositioned, and quickly catapulted Anambra State's education sector and its students from a very low and unacceptable 24th position in the waec and neco index to 1st position for 3 consecutive years.

Below, please find some of this man's achievements as a partial list below:

1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 Million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.

2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as the United States, Britain, Russia, the European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, and Canada, among others, visited the State. Before his tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.

3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union, etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.

4. He was recognized as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programs in Nigeria.

5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.

6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.

7. The State’s ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners – Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.

8. The State also entered into a strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 Million Dollars in various types of support.

10. Through a partnership with the Church in the Health sector, governor Peter Obi's Government funded the transformation of -:

a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunization in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. Fabrice Campoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.

18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built its first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged by our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which Governor Peter Obi's government purchased more than 1,000 vehicles.

20. Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including the provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.

21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.

22. Governor Peter Obi's administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Teaching Hospital in Awka.

23. Peter Obi's government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).

24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion – National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) – to Anambra State.

25. Governor Peter Obi's government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of his administration's poverty-alleviation strategies.

26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha, and Nnewi.

27. During his tenure and with his Government’s support, Anambra State became an oil-producing State.

28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.

29. His government commenced the development of the ‘Three Arms Zone’ comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.

30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when he took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.

31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinized State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID.

As a macro and micromanager, a bank CEO, Peter Obi understood the importance of SMEs to an economy. He quickly set about empowering this sector to help grow the state economy.

As has been outlined above, ne of the many results of this forward-thinking is Innoson motor manufacturing in Nnewi. Governor Peter Obi made a 5 billion naira down payment to purchase all government vehicles from this indigenous manufacturer way before a single bolt was screwed into a body panel.

Today the success story that is Innoson motors in knowledge to every Nigeria, and that is just if of the many startups whose success is directly attributable to Peter Obi's foresight.

To assure prudence and eliminate wastage in public expenditure and stay in conformity with the country's constitution, governor Obi promptly abolished the office of the first lady in the state.

The security situation in Anambra State when governor Obi resumed work in Awka can be best described as miserable. Anambrarians did not sleep with even one eye closed.

Governor Peter Obi quickly convened and entrenched a new State security architecture that allowed every community to have government-paid and equipped security operatives. The peace and security enjoyed today in Anambra was Peter Obi's brainchild because as he has said himself, you cannot prosper economically if people's lives and properties are not secured.

As I stated earlier, Anambra state is a relatively new entity with next to nothing in terms of governance structures and infrastructure cannot be compared to a former federal capital, and in fact still a commercial capital with a massive and ongoing federal presence, Lagos,

Mr. Peter Obi as he would like to be called, a man with absolute humility and goodwill across all states of this country, succeeded in bringing Anambra State forward, entrenched order and security in an environment of crass lawlessness, grew the state IGR by plugging loopholes and providing an SME friendly environment, sanitized the education sector.

He connected the most remote community to the state's road network just to mention very few of this man's lofty achievements in a state where next to nothing except criminality and godfatherism was functional when he resumed office as an unprepared state governor who had to take over at a moments notice.

I am super excited to see what a more matured and experienced Peter Obi will do achieve president of Nigeria.

It might be beneficial to note that in all of this, governor Obi paid all retirement benefits. Pensions and gratuity benefits of all Anambra State employees were settled. All salaries were paid and on maturity.

Governor Obi succeeded in building a fallback purse for the Anambra people in the amount of 156 million US dollars and 75 billion naira respectively. These funds, the 156 million dollars are still bonded in 3 Nigerian banks where they have now grown to over 180 million dollars assuming successive governments made no additional contribution to the original lodgement.

Let us remember that this is a country where governors not only boldly embezzle State government funds but also abuse the funds of the third tier of government, the local government. These governors go on to assume foreign debts they have no reasonable means to repay. This was the reason president Olusegun Obasanjo withheld Lagos State funds because the governor at the time, Ahmed Bola Tinubu was accused of this infringement.

Mr. Peter Obi never took a loan as governor of Anambra State. All states projects were executed within the confined of the state's statutory allocation and internally generated revenues, yet on valediction, he left the people of the state a whopping surplus.

This is in the same state where we are now told that the new government inherited a 300 billion naira debt profile.

I was once told that a minimum of 60 percent of all containers imported through Lagos ports went east. We need to understand what this means in terms of economic value and conjuncture.

You can't wake up and build a port in Nigeria unless the relevant federal interests say so. The southeast has cried their voices sore asking for the Niger river to be dredged. Lagos did not build Apapa and Tincal Island ports but immensely benefits from both in terms of direct revenue and macroeconomic value. What would Peter Obi do with a fully functional river port at Onitsha or Ulasi?.

To summarize for lack of time on my part. If we are to enumerate this man's suitability for the job he now told us he would wish to assume if we give him the opportunity over his peers will require a lot more time and space which I, unfortunately, can hardly spare at the moment.

Lastly, suffice it to say that Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu operated in 2 completely different systems and environments.

If we dispassionately analyze the odds against these men when they operated in the capacity as governors, it will be fair to say that Mr. Obi had the shorter, way shorter end of the stick, yet succeeded immensely.

The question we ought to be asking ourselves is, what would Peter Obi have made out of Lagos with its already established and enabled environment?.

In contribution to the comment regarding ESN, my feeling is that ESN unfortunately is a necessary evil. Evil in the sense that acts unconnected to the original intent if its establishment is now accusatorily ascribed to it.

But all of these are still allegations because if one looks critically at the antecedents of this Fulani government, it will be difficult, if not impossible to arrive at a conclusion that it is not contrived to disparage and lay to waste, the many gains of these brave men who successfully dislodged its anointed foot soldiers, the Fulani jihadist murderers from all across the southeast and parts of south-south geo-political zones.

Folks can go to farms again and sleep with both eyes closed in these places, unlike the carnage and sorrow that continues to befall our people in the middle belt where mass graves and bloodshed have become a common happenstance.

To that, I say a very hearty kudos and thank you to ESN, and the Fulani rulers of Nigeria can decide to call off both their clandestine siege of the southeast in the name of unknown gunmen and regular troops paid for with our taxes and natural resources to which their brethren contribute nothing.

I apologize for deviating from the topic, but who can blame anyone in today's Nigeria for becoming emotionally subsumed in the face of what we are now faced with.

I submit!.

He got employed by one of the biggest auditing firms in the world and Mobil with just school cert. Oga leave us alone you're not qualified to engage us politically. Go to okrika section

ThEGodFaThEr131:

Abeg, list one of Tinubu's Educational Qualification

Bro seems you've been away from Nigeria a long time ago. They're no longer second after Yoruba, they are now distant third and second to the Niger Delta politically. That's the reality on ground.

SlyDev:
Ask many igbos they know BAT is smarter than Okwute.

I understand you are tired of playing second to mighty Yoruba, na how God create you under Yoruba greatness.

I'm happy to be Yoruba, we are blessed

ThEGodFaThEr131:

Mumu, that's technical training.

You are a first class fool. Others have answered you.

Mugu.

ThEGodFaThEr131:

It's you and your households that will be humiliated and disgraced. Stupid idiot.

So e pain you kikikikikiki. Just as he said, you will be humiliated.

seunmsg:
Tinubu graduated with honors and as best student in his set from Chicago state university. Over five top companies in the world gave him offers before he even graduated and he opted to join Arthur Andersen, the best Accounting firm in the world as st then. He went further to work in Deloitte, GTE, Mobil etc before joining politics.

So he got all these in the 18th centuries that they weren't documented?

Saintinoo:


So he got all these in the 18th centuries that they weren't documented?

It’s obvious you’ve not been reading the right documents.