Peter Obi, Labour Party 2023 presidential candidate and former Anambra State governor has expanded his social media presence by joining TikTok. He announced this on his verified X (formerly Twitter) account saying:

"This is my official and only TikTok page. Join me in building a New Nigeria that is POssible. – PO"

Ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and his son, Bashir El-Rufai, has been posting political tweets aimed at the supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

In one of his tweets, Bashir praised Peter Obi, the former Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, saying his views about him had changed.

Reacting to his father’s defection via his X account, the ex-governor’s son said APC members p0isoned his mind against Obi.

He tweeted, “Peter Obi is surprisingly not a bad person after all. My views on him have changed recently. My mind was p0isoned by my former party members. Sai Obi!”

In another tweet, Bashir called out to young Nigerians to join his father’s new party, saying, there would be “an online platform for all prospective SDP members to register and join by the end of this week.”

However, Daniel Bwala, President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, has described El-Rufai’s defection to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as an inordinate ambition destined to fail.

Bwala said that El-Rufai would be reminded that associating with “sore l0sers to unseat” President Bola Tinubu is neither an ideology nor progressivism.

Reacting to the development in a tweet, Bwala wrote: He tweeted, “Senior, @elrufai. I read the news today that you resigned from APC to join SDP. Well, I have nothing against you because you exercised your constitutional right.

However, the MOTIVE is what we would interrogate in the coming days and remind Nigerians that you are not a phenomenon that emerges like a clap of thunder out of a blue sky.

We would intellectually remind you that associating with sore losers to unseat the incumbent is not an IDEOLOGY, neither is it PROGRESSIVISM; It is simply an inordinate AMBITION that is destined to fail.”

“Peter Obi is surprisingly not a bad person after all. My views on him have changed recently. My mind was poisoned by my former party members.”

-Bashir El-Rufai

#benue_newspoint

If you haven’t listened to Akinwumi Adesina’s interview with Rufai Oseni on Arise TV, please do so. I just streamed the full interview, & I’m speechless. Akin is such a force, he is a man of statistics as well. He regurgitated everything that Peter Obi has been saying; everything.

“1. Nigeria must invest in its people.
2. Africa cannot develop with aide.
3. We have the resources in the soil.

4. Trump says it’s AMERICA FIRST.
I don’t have a problem with that.

5. I don’t believe we should beg our way to development. We must develop with pride.

6. Africa has 65% of arable land to feed the world. It’s not in Asia, not in America, not in China. It’s not in any other part of the world.

7. When we have 477 million young people below the age of 35, why should I be worried?

8. The largest renewable sources of energy are in Africa, why should I be worried (when it has to do with energy transition globally)?

8. On electric vehicles: Take lithium batteries for example. Everything you need; from platinum, to cobalt, to graphite, copper & everything you need are in Africa.

9. DRC accounts for 90% of global platinum for mobile phones, lithium batteries. Electric car market will be worth $59 Trillion by 2050. Develop your own manufacturing capacity, so that you’re not selling the raw materials.

10. If I’m selling semi-conductors to you, if I’m something you need; it’s very difficult for you to just wake up, & wave me around like that. The lesson is for African nations to industrialize, & make its purchasing power very high.”

Akin is basically saying FROM CONSUMPTION TO PRODUCTION. That was a Pan Africanist speaking. He is pro-Africa through & through.

Akin is an advocate of purchasing power, AKA (HDI). He said so much, I can’t possibly remember everything now. You guys need to stop the relationship, soups, bigotry & gender wars, & begin to have these conversations.

Africa is on borrowed time, we are in the dying minutes of a unequal match. The world truly left Nigeria behind, we are now a laughing stock globally. Nigerians should be led by the likes of Akin, NOI, Obi; but hey, “let’s continue with the stupid tribalism & the reckless foolishness.”

Nigeria is a goldmine. We have all that we need inside the soil to be great. But we need the focused leadership, who are less corrupt, & people-centric. We need people of integrity (global icons) that will put Nigerians first.

Enough with the Politicking & the Government of Politicians only. Haven’t y’all had enough?

NIGERIANS WAKE UP!