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Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by tolexy007(m): 8:52pm On Jan 16, 2023
The appearance of the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi at Chatham House in the United Kingdom on Monday projected Nigeria as a pride of the black race and the giant of Africa.

LP spokesman, Kenneth Okonkwo, stated this on Channels Television’s
Politics Today programme hours after the party’s flag bearer discussed his plans at Chatham House, a world-leading policy institute and think-tank forum.

According to him, Obi went to Chatham House to tell the world about a new Nigeria that is about to unfold, about security solutions and uniting Nigeria.
Okonkwo also said Obi was so “stingy” that he refused to “share” answers to questions directed to him during the appearance.

“His (Obi’s) appearance today (Monday) at Chatham House is not just an appearance that will further Labour Party or further his candidacy but his appearance has projected Nigeria as a pride of the black race, has projected Nigeria for what it is; the giant of Africa,” Okonkwo stated.

“I’m so proud of my principal who was so stingy that he went to Chatham House and refuse to share questions; he was answering the questions, in contradiction to the generous APC candidate who went there and shared the questions for other people to answer.”

The LP presidential candidate during the appearance vowed to end oil theft, ease ethnic tension caused by injustice and non-inclusion, increase Nigeria’s electricity generation and distribution capacity, end secessionist agitation through efficient dialogue and inclusion, service Nigeria’s mounting debt, solve youth unemployment, ensure no single Nigerian remains in Internally Displaced Persons’ camp, amongst others.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakubu; and the flag bearer of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso would also speak at Chatham House later in the week.

On December 5, 2022, Obi’s counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu made an appearance at Chatham House in London, where he revealed some of his plans for major sectors like defense, economy, education, and technology.
Tinubu delegated some of his allies including serving governors and lawmakers to answer questions posed by participants at the event, one which attracted widespread criticisms.

Obi, Tinubu, Kwankwaso and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are frontline candidates in the February 25, 2023 presidential race.


https://www.channelstv.com/2023/01/16/obi-was-so-stingy-he-didnt-share-any-question-at-chatham-house-okonkwo/

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Softmirror: 8:52pm On Jan 16, 2023
grin THAT TELLS YOU WHY AFTER PETER OBI LEFT THE ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HE LEFT WITH HIS VISION AND WISDOM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT HIMSELF.

BUT,

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU'S WISDOM AND VISION IS STILL ALIVE TODAY PROPELLING LAGOS TO GREATER HEIGHTS COURTESY OF WELL STRUCTURED, NOT SELF CENTERED, FORMIDABLE, FUNTIONAL TEAM. A CHAIN LINE OF SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSORS AFTER SUCCESSORS. WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY TO BUILDING A NATION.

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Malory: 8:54pm On Jan 16, 2023
Obi is the undisputed choice of Nigerians.

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Adaisback(f): 8:58pm On Jan 16, 2023
grin that man is a human computer ogini di? ObI to the world. Time to be proud to come from Nigeria.

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Wiseandtrue(f): 8:58pm On Jan 16, 2023
grin grin grin

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Nightwolf1: 9:07pm On Jan 16, 2023
Peter Obi na your mate? Thîefnubu go Chatham house go gazelle gagaraga with tear tear umbrelleta

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Coolsperm: 9:10pm On Jan 16, 2023
We Yoruba Christian's will never vote for Muslim Muslim ticket, we are not fools, Muric even told Yoruba Muslims not to vote Yoruba Christian's and they all agreed

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Coolsperm: 9:10pm On Jan 16, 2023
We Yoruba Christian's will never vote for Muslim Muslim ticket, we are not fools, Muric even told Yoruba Muslims not to vote Yoruba Christian's and they all agreed ,

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Coolsperm: 9:11pm On Jan 16, 2023
We Yoruba Christian's will never vote for Muslim Muslim ticket, we are not fools

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by sylve11: 7:13am On Jan 17, 2023
Na till after the elections we go know. cool

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by owiko(m): 7:13am On Jan 17, 2023
Mr. Okonkwo, your dexterity in subtle jab throwing/neck pressing is something to be researched at Cambridge

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Goodlady(f): 7:14am On Jan 17, 2023
What a point!

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by iscom(m): 7:14am On Jan 17, 2023
OK
Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by nnamdi640: 7:14am On Jan 17, 2023
Softmirror:
grin THAT TELLS YOU WHY AFTER PETER OBI LEFT THE ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HE LEFT WITH HIS VISION AND WISDOM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT HIMSELF.

BUT,

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU'S WISDOM AND VISION IS STILL ALIVE TODAY PROPELLING LAGOS TO GREATER HEIGHTS COURTESY OF WELL STRUCTURED, NOT SELF CENTERED, FORMIDABLE, FUNTIONAL TEAM. A CHAIN LINE OF SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSORS AFTER SUCCESSORS. WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY TO BUILDING A NATION.

Vision on sitting on Lagos account for more than 18yrs. What a greedy man

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Curious345: 7:14am On Jan 17, 2023
Tinubu should be arrested for embarrassing Nigerians

#neverAgain

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Omolomo4eva(m): 7:14am On Jan 17, 2023
Irony
Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Curious345: 7:15am On Jan 17, 2023
Bambabuu badaba should be confined to an old people's home ..
That should be his abode ..

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Racoon(m): 7:15am On Jan 17, 2023
Yeah! Peter Obi was impressive all the way. I am sure the heroine and cocaine sniffing criminal now have a proper grasp of what a real interview should be like and not the caricature of some fraudulent people doing the interview for the job somebody else applied for.

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Ejiakusmith(m): 7:15am On Jan 17, 2023
Why is Atiku hiding not granting interviews.......he thinks his bigger than Nigeria

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by bazoodo: 7:15am On Jan 17, 2023
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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by yugoo: 7:16am On Jan 17, 2023
If Nigeria misses Peter Obi, we are going to find ourselves racing 10 years back again. I have nothing to say but he who has ears, let him hear

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by oluseyiforjesus(m): 7:16am On Jan 17, 2023
Ok
Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by STEWpid(f): 7:16am On Jan 17, 2023
Chai..

I expect people to talk about more important issues than Stinginess.

Is Stinginess the reason why a person will qualify or not qualify for Presidiot?

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Searchingvictor: 7:17am On Jan 17, 2023
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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by arantess: 7:17am On Jan 17, 2023
Softmirror:
grin THAT TELLS YOU WHY AFTER PETER OBI LEFT THE ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HE LEFT WITH HIS VISION AND WISDOM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT HIMSELF.

BUT,

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU'S WISDOM AND VISION IS STILL ALIVE TODAY PROPELLING LAGOS TO GREATER HEIGHTS COURTESY OF WELL STRUCTURED, NOT SELF CENTERED, FORMIDABLE, FUNTIONAL TEAM. A CHAIN LINE OF SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSORS AFTER SUCCESSORS. WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY TO BUILDING A NATION.

You will be alright

Meanwhile can you oga stand for one hour without pillow and chair to prop him up?

We need fit and articulate gentleman who can compete with his counterparts around the world

Imagine tinubu addressing the world at G20 meeting and asking for chair and pillow to rest.....haba make Una get sense na

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Acidosis(m): 7:18am On Jan 17, 2023
Video

This guy completely destroyed Atikulooter and Jagbajantis



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUjac4Z4Rc

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by truthfulnigeria: 7:18am On Jan 17, 2023
It's a pity bro.
Softmirror:
grin THAT TELLS YOU WHY AFTER PETER OBI LEFT THE ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HE LEFT WITH HIS VISION AND WISDOM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT HIMSELF.

BUT,

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU'S WISDOM AND VISION IS STILL ALIVE TODAY PROPELLING LAGOS TO GREATER HEIGHTS COURTESY OF WELL STRUCTURED, NOT SELF CENTERED, FORMIDABLE, FUNTIONAL TEAM. A CHAIN LINE OF SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSORS AFTER SUCCESSORS. WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY TO BUILDING A NATION.

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Simeony007(m): 7:18am On Jan 17, 2023
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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Kingcalls: 7:18am On Jan 17, 2023
Softmirror:
grin THAT TELLS YOU WHY AFTER PETER OBI LEFT THE ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HE LEFT WITH HIS VISION AND WISDOM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT HIMSELF.

BUT,

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU'S WISDOM AND VISION IS STILL ALIVE TODAY PROPELLING LAGOS TO GREATER HEIGHTS COURTESY OF WELL STRUCTURED, NOT SELF CENTERED, FORMIDABLE, FUNTIONAL TEAM. A CHAIN LINE OF SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSORS AFTER SUCCESSORS. WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY TO BUILDING A NATION.


We will never elect a sick dementia ridden criminal as president...u better get that into ur head

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by Obojuju: 7:18am On Jan 17, 2023
The APC same-faith is a deliberate, well-calculated plan to sow the seeds of religious and social discord among Nigerians. It is obvious that Northerners, in particular, are the intended targets and victims of this satanic plan. It is an indisputable fact that the whole of Northern Nigeria is currently mired in several intractable socio-economic problems due to the activities of several nebulous criminal groups. Agriculture, the mainstay of the northern economy, is all but abandoned because kidnappers and bandits have prevented people from venturing out of the safety of their homes. Interstate and intercity travel for either business or leisure have all but ceased not only due to un-motorable roads but more so for fear of kidnapping, armed robbery and other forms of banditry. Our rural schools have all but closed for fear of kidnappers. Government-owned universities have closed thus depriving the children of the already impoverished Northern masses access to affordable higher education. Thus, our out-of-school and idle children have become easy targets for recruitment by bandits and kidnappers. And there is no solution in sight.

Then, out of nowhere this man Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a renown Yoruba-hegemonist, a man who championed the establishment of a Ministry of Regional Integration in each state government of the South-west geopolitical region which he bestrides as an emperor, and a man who was once quoted as saying “I do not believe in one Nigeria” (THISDAY, The Sunday Newspaper, April 13, 1997, page 9) comes up with a Muslim-Muslim ticket knowing fully well that religion is the underbelly of Northern Nigeria. APC’s same-faith ticket is a ploy to further sow discord among Northerners using the most potent weapon of social discord – religion. As Karl Max once said – “religion is the opium of the people”. Nigerians from all shades of the society must see this Tinubu/Kashim same-faith ticket as a proposal from the pit of hell that can only be conjured by the most Machiavellian minds known to man and therefore must be rejected wholesome by all lovers of our country and its nascent democracy.

On the other hand, Alhaji Kashim Shetima, Tinubu’s Vice Presidential running mate is a man who once said “restructuring my foot, let’s restructure our minds”. For eight years he presided over Borno State at a time when Boko Haram was overrunning the state almost at will and restructuring the minds of its victims against Christianity and western education. The kidnapped Chibok and Dapchi girls and many more are now slowly trickling out of captivity in the Boko Haram indoctrination camps fully Islamized and carrying children born into Islam in captivity – a true example of “mind restructuring” if there ever was one. There is also this little matter of an allegation of a very close relationship or otherwise between the Vice-Presidential candidate of APC and Boko Haram! And, which Christian can forget one Kabiru Sokoto the alleged Boko Haram kingpin accused of complicity in the Christmas bombing of St Theresa Catholic Church, Madallah that resulted in 44 deaths and 77 injured Christian worshippers? Or that the said Kabiru Sokoto was eventually arrested at his hiding place in the Borno State Government Lodge Abuja? Are Christians not justified in being scared of a government run by this duo?

Surely, APC’s same-faith ticket is intended to shame Christians and bestow on them and their religion a second-class socio-political status in their own country. In particular it is a validation of the discrimination and oppression being meted out on Northern Nigerian Christians where they are now denied employment, promotion, contracts, and admission to read prestigious and marketable courses in government-owned schools simply on account of their religion. It is no wonder then that Alhaji Bola Tinubu thinks that the Bible is a book of jokes from which he can freely construct his “jokes” like his “Poisoned Holly Communion” and “Speaking in Tongues” jokes. If he is man enough, I challenge him to ridicule the Holy Quran even once as he freely does the Holy Bible. This guy has no respect for Christians and Christianity at all.

This APC ticket goes against the grain of Nigerian politics which in practice (if not in law) has always sought to achieve a religious balance in its politics and governance. It is worth noting that all the other seventeen political parties fielding presidential candidates have gone the way of established conventions and practices by fielding different-faith tickets. Truly except for its incitement to social disharmony, there is no sense at all in APC’s same faith ticket. Furthermore, in our quest for justice and equity in the socio-political and religious space of the country, it is obvious that only the Obi/Datti ticket has the potential of speaking to the genuine clamor for power shift to the South-East and at the same time speak to the cry of marginalization by our people of the South-East. Obviously, a Christian/Muslim presidency like the Obi/Datti one will be most appropriate at this stage of our political journey more so since we are now transiting from a Muslim/Christian presidency. It will also achieve the regional shift of the presidency from the current NW/SW to a SE/NW presidency as popularly being canvassed. This is justice; this is equity. This is political engineering at its best and one that engineers peace and harmonious co-existence of the various socio-political and religious classes of our nation.

Nigerians should also resist the temptation of being ruled by the same set of courtiers who are recycling themselves, their children and their friends in a monarchal fashion, in and out of government to the exclusion of other segments of the society. This trend has resulted in these disastrous consequences in which we now find ourselves – impoverished, unsecured, divided, severely underdeveloped and massively unemployed with a widening gulf between the rich and poor of the society. A keen observer will not fall to notice that APC is a transmutation of Action Group/UPN that is dominated by the children or grandchildren of those who once run and ruined the Action Group while the PDP is a transmutation of NPC/NPN similarly dominated by the children or grandchildren of the people who once run and ruined the NPC. A government of either APC or PDP will only be a recycling of the same class of people who have been running and ruining the country from independence to date. Is it any wonder that Nigeria has remained static? The Obi/Datti will give us breath of fresh air and the greatest opportunity to redeem our country from the quagmire into which we have been plunged by a recurring group of self-centred reactionaries.

There is a also this palpable fear and anxiety over a possible transition of the current presidency from one Fulbe to another – same tribe, same religion, same region, same courtiers. This has given rise to a heightened fear of a possible perpetuation of a Fulbe hegemony in the country. Besides, there is the perception by many Nigerians that the Fulbe are the main actors in the banditry and kidnappings currently ravaging the country. Therefore, there is a widespread perception that another Fulbe-led government will not have the inclination or political will to address the country’s security challenges seeing as a majority of the perpetrators are its kindred.
There is also this perception that appointments by the current government are driven more by ethnic and religious cronyism than by Nationalistic considerations. This has given rise to a fear of a possible perpetuation of this trend by another Fulbe-led government. Both APC and PDP presents us with these horrible options. The Obi/Datti ticket possesses a great potential to wean us from these problems.

Finally, as the political campaigns advance towards the election dates, the tendency to divide the country along regional, tribal and religious affiliations is gradually beginning to manifest. We can see very clearly that the APC having woefully failed in its original plan to instigate a form of jihad which it had sought through its same-faith ticket in order to capture the Muslim votes, has now resorted to a tribal card. The battle cry is now “it is our turn” tribal card in the South-West. The PDP on the other hand, seeing new opportunities in APC’s failed jihad strategy is tending towards adapting both the religious and ethnic strategies of APC in the North.

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Re: Okonkwo: Obi Was So Stingy He Didn’t Share Any Question At Chatham House by mrvitalis(m): 7:19am On Jan 17, 2023
Softmirror:
grin THAT TELLS YOU WHY AFTER PETER OBI LEFT THE ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HE LEFT WITH HIS VISION AND WISDOM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT HIMSELF.

BUT,

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU'S WISDOM AND VISION IS STILL ALIVE TODAY PROPELLING LAGOS TO GREATER HEIGHTS COURTESY OF WELL STRUCTURED, NOT SELF CENTERED, FORMIDABLE, FUNTIONAL TEAM. A CHAIN LINE OF SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSORS AFTER SUCCESSORS. WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY TO BUILDING A NATION.

Obi worth with seasoned professional ,why should any professional remain in politics after serving your people

There is absolutely no money in politics unless you still .... president makes mere 1.5 million a month that a random emeka makes a week selling cloths

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