On Monday, November 6th, 2023, Nigerians were yet again subjected to the gruelling task of listening to the lamentations of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election. I have since discovered that it is less tortuous to read the text of these Obi incoherent and poor content press conferences than listen to the man as he struggles to read out the content.
Peter Obi, a man who was a happy beneficiary of Nigeria’s judicial system starting from the Federal High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court and was restored to office as Anambra State Governor on three separate occasions, started his World Press Conference by lampooning the Supreme Court and the entire judiciary for dismissing his watery petition challenging the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Perhaps the most shocking statement from Mr. Peter Obi in the entire press conference, which I consider even more dangerous than his ‘religious war’ statement in the infamous ‘Yes Daddy’ phone call, was in paragraph 4 where he said: “Setting legal issues aside, the Supreme Court exhibited a disturbing aversion to public opinion just as it abandoned its responsibility as a court of law and policy.
Peter Obi was in effect telling the Supreme Court of Nigeria, our highest judicial authority to set aside LAW when treating cases before it and instead gauge PUBLIC OPINIONS in deciding where to swing the pendulum of justice! Meanwhile the public opinions Obi was referring to are those of his loud, ignorant, bullish and extremist Obidient mob made up kaleidoscope of arsonists, secessionists, fraudsters, fake news merchants, unpatriotic pseudo-intellectuals and other unpatriotic elements who always rejoice at any negative news about their country.
Peter Obi, by urging the Supreme Court to gauge public opinion before deciding on cases is in effect trying to kill the RULE OF LAW in Nigeria to entrench the RULE OF THE MOB instead. Perhaps Obi wants the judiciary to open online polls (where he has a loud base) anytime a case is brought before a Court and then ask people to vote where they feel the judgment should tilt! Peter Obi wants to create a Mob Republic where mobocracy is the system of government! Thankfully, 8,794,726 voters said NO! on February 25th, 2023.
Peter Obi without any iota of shame feigned dismay at the decision of the Supreme Court saying that the “court’s decision contradicts the overwhelming evidence of election rigging, false claim of a technical glitch, substantial non-compliance with rules set by INEC itself as well as matters of perjury, identity theft and forgery that have been brought to light in the course of the election matter”. The above statement from Peter Obi makes me wonder if he actually went through the contents of the Petition he filed before the presidential election petition tribunal through his battery of lawyers.
The questions his mob would never bring themselves to ask Mr. Peter Obi due to their inability to think independently include:
1. If you claim there was an offence of perjury, identity theft and forgery committed by President Bola Tinubu, what on earth prevented you from making those allegations clearly spelt out in your petition and providing enough evidence and witnesses to prove the claims?
2. How does a technical glitch in the IREV portal affect the copy of the polling unit result sheet (form EC8A) INEC Presiding officers issued to Labour Party’s polling unit agents?
3. If Peter Obi claims the elections were rigged and he possessed OVERWHELMING evidence to prove it, why was it difficult for him to state in his petition, the exact number of votes he scored?
Mr. Peter Obi also brazenly accused the Supreme Court of condoning breaches of the Constitution because they correctly affirmed their earlier decision years ago that the FCT is treated as a state as clearly enshrined in Section 299 of the 1999 Constitution. Obviously Mr. Peter Obi and his treason-courting running mate, Datti Ahmed do not understand the Constitution, the Supreme Court would have breached the Constitution if they failed to recognise and treat the FCT as a state in accordance with Section 299. Probably Obi felt that by virtue of the Labour Party winning the FCT, INEC should simply declare them winners of the election.
The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi by the content of his press conference was positioning himself as the leader of a Fascist Movement who does mind bending clear laws just to gain power. Peter Obi stopped short of calling his base to rise against the Nigerian state, remove President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and install him instead as the President. If Obi’s base was wide and strong enough to overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu, I bet you, Mr. Peter Obi would have given the marching orders to begin an insurrection. That is how desperate he is!
The sum total of Obi’s shameful press conference is that he succeeded once again to display his dullness, confused state of mind and pure hypocrisy to the Nigerian public. With every press conference he conducts, Peter Obi only ends up blighting his persona as those who hitherto saw him as a smart fellow would be shuddering in disbelief at the individual that is unravelling before their very eyes. Obi displayed his dullness and crass hypocrisy while responding to a question on the refusal of Labour Party’s NASS members to reject the SUVs procured by the National Assembly for its members.
In one breathe, Mr. Peter Obi criticised the purchase of the SUV heavily, saying it would not have happened if Labour Party was in power. In another breathe minutes later, the same Mr. Peter Obi was defending Labour Party federal lawmakers for accepting the SUV and not opposing its acquisition. In his characteristic rabble rousing, Obi said that the SUVs were official vehicles to enable the lawmakers carry out their duties and that it’s not their personal cars. One is left wondering what then is Obi criticising since NASS never said the vehicles were personal car gifts to the lawmakers.
Obi further exposed his dullness by failing to really understand the principle of separation of powers when he stated that under Labour Party as the ruling party with him as the President, the NASS would never have bought the vehicles in line with his cutting cost of governance mantra. He even went ahead to boldly narrate how he procurred 60 Peugeot 406 vehicles in his term part of which he shared to Justices. This is the talk of a man who does not know that the Executive arm of government should not be the one making purchases of vehicles for an independent judiciary or legislature whose budget are on first line charge and beyond the immediate control of the executive.
It means if Obi mistakenly becomes president, the independence of the National Assembly and judiciary would be taken away since he would be the one to say what should be bought for them in line with his taste or principle. I don’t know who would tell Obi that Nigeria is not Anambra State where he was running a one-man show and decided what should be bought for the judiciary or legislature as well as how much his caretaker chairpersons in the LGAs should be given from their legitimate federation he seized.
Mr. Peter Obi really needs a thorough psychotic screening because I fear he may be a suffering from early stage psychosis. Peter Obi is a presidential candidate who finished third after running a divisive campaign with no hope of garnering national support, then claimed he won but that his mandate was stolen. When given the chance to prove how he won and what should be his score, he started accusing INEC of not uploading results on their portal in real-time. The courts rightly threw out his confusion-ridden petition and now he is throwing tantrums.
The next four years would be very challenging for Nigeria because we are about to tackle the biggest health emergency in our history, worse than the Covid-19 in scale and importance. We have on our hands a mentally unstable fascist leading a large number of unpatriotic elements who need mental help. Luckily, the number of sane individuals in the country is far more than these people and therefore would prevail in managing this national m ental epidemic. Nigeria always wins!