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Twitter street on fire as Peter Obi Declares for 2023 Presidency.

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2 years ago

March 26, 2022

“Peter obi declares for presidency” is arguably the best News thag came out of Nigeria today. For the first time in a long while, Nigerian youths showed their happiness towards someone who aspires to contest the 2023 elections.

This is unlike the backlash that had followed people who in one way or the other endorsed Bola Tonubu or Atiku Abubarkar for president in 2023. Earth sound had reported that a pastor had placed a curse on all those who endorse Tinubu for 2023 election saying that “ Anybody that’ll Endorse Tinubu will not Enjoy 2022.

Peter Obi, the former governor of Anambra State, has declared his intention to run for president in 2023.

The vice presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 elections made the declaration in Awka while speaking to the royal fathers and Presidents General of the state’s 181 communities at Government House in Awka.

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Peter obi declares for presidency.

Peter Obi who is also known as Okwute was expected to officially declare his presidential candidacy on Friday.

This is the first time Obi has publicly stated his intention to run for office in 2023.

Peter Obi for President 2023.

The twitter space as well as other social media platforms in Nigeria stood still for Peter Obi after he revealed his intention to contest for the 2023 presidency.

As matter a matter of fact, one facebook user identified as Phils mocked Alhaji Atiku Abukakar when he wrote; “

“Atiku spent all the money, rented venue, paid artistes to perform, gathered the crowd, invited the press, Peter Obi came there and declared for FREE.

Peter Obi’s declaration is now trending everywhere with Atiku’s money. But I doubt Obi truly knows how influential he is.

On Facebook, Best Chimezirim wrote; “Man like Peter Obi 🙌, my love for him.
Because of this man, I’ll go and search for my misplaced pvc.“

“The Obi presidency might be the miracle we need, the igbos have been long neglected in executive positions, and this should be an issue of concern for any detribalized person.“

“I can still remember some excerpts from his speech during the 2019 atiku/obi saga:
-Unemployment rate
-Poor investment in Education
-Inequality index
-Pathetic investment in SMEs
-Worsened internal security
-Index of malnourished children under the age of 5
-Jobs! Jobs!! Jobs!!! Etc
Peter Obi DISCOMBOBULATES and throws me off balance, the way he sites economic figures ad lib 🤣🤣🤣
He has a relatively excellent track record, I pray he wins🙏“

Japheth Prosper shared a story about how Peter Obi’s achievements in education, she wrote;

My office was in search of a video editor years ago. We advertized in the media and many people showed up for interview. It was a scarce venture at that time.
Unfortunately none of the people who came for interview knew about After Effect which was one of the major packages listed on the requirement tablet.

We needed someone who was very competent and very conversant with all the packages.

A week later, a teenager showed up. I thought he had come to make an enquiry but was shocked to hear that he came for the interview.

“What interview?” I echoed with heightened curiosity.

“Video editing,” he responded without much emphasis. I thought he was joking.

I asked how old he was and he said he was eighteen with a school cert as his qualification. I just felt he was a joker.

In no time, he sat on the chair facing mine and exhumed his laptop from his bag. Minutes later, he was showing me what he knew on my desk in his computer.

Soon, all the members of the management team stood listening to the boy as he lectured everyone of us on all the things he knew; and he knew more than we could imagine – more than everyone we had interviewed for the job.

My boss asked how much he would take if we employed him and he said he would rather we negotiated with him on a contract basis. He dictated all the terms. He would come only three times a week. And he wanted to be paid two hundred and fifty thousand naira! My salary was not up to half the amount he requested. It was an outrageous sum.

We pleaded with him to come down a little but he was not willing to go down lower than that. He said he was already making over three hundred thousand naira from the jobs he did for churches and pockets of other organizations. We needed him badly. We didn’t want to let go.
My boss called for a meeting immediately the boy left us.

“How are we going to pay him?” he asked.

I came up with with an idea to salvage the situation. I suggested we advertize in the media that we would hold lectures for candidates who were interested in video editing and we could then raise money from the students to pay the young man. Again, our in house computer gurus could also learn from the young man and take over from him on the day he decided to go.

My boss bought the idea and we immediately swung into action. We called the young man and told him of our plans. He didn’t mind so long he would get his pay. He demanded we get a projector. He didn’t mind that most of his students were going to be more educated and older than him because he trusted his abilities.

We did radio jingles and our phones began to buzz incessantly. People were calling from every nook and cranny. The first set of students we admitted for the first week fetched us 1.8 million naira. The course was for three months.

In six months, we had made over ten million naira from video editing students.
Why am I telling this story? Because most of us have not yet realized that crude oil can’t put food on our table as much as human capital development would.
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This boy who turned things around for us at the office then did not come from Jupiter. He came from Anambra state. When we asked how he came to know all the things he knew, he revealed that the state governor had brought in computer specialists to the state from Asia to teach them for free. As a beneficiary of this initiative, he was able to learn all the things he knew.

The governor of Anambra state at that time was Peter Obi!

Now, if for nothing else but sentimental, tell me why I shouldn’t cast my vote for a giver of life; the one who understands that crude oil isn’t what we should be talking about now?

Peter Obi might not know this but he gave a boy life and by extension indirectly trained more people and put food on their tables.

I have said this many times before that Nigeria has all that it takes to be great with the kind of human resources available at its disposal. What is lacking is just the political will!

Peter Obi net worth 2022

Peter Obi, who was born on July 19, 1961, received his early education in Onitsha, Anambra state. Peter Gregory Obi is his full name, and he was born in Onitsha, Anambra state. He is popularly referred to as “OKWUTE,” which translates as “ROCK.”

Peter Obi Education

He attended Christ the King College in Onitsha for secondary school. Peter Obi pursued his higher education at the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he earned a degree in Philosophy in 1984.

Peter obi didn’t stop his educational pursuit there, he went on to acquire further education abroad.

He attended the following schools abroad;

Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, and the London School of Economics, where he studied Financial Management/Business Policy,
Columbia Business School in New York, where he studied Marketing Management
The Institute for Management and Development in Switzerland, where he also received two certificates in the Senior Executive Program and the Chief Executive Officers Program, and
Kellogg Graduate School of Management in the United States, Oxford University, and Cambridge.

Peter Obi Businesses

Among the companies with which he has worked are:

Future View Services Ltd
Paymaster Nigeria Ltd
Chams Nigeria Ltd
Corp Ltd and Card Centre Ltd

others include;

Sources always attribute the ownership of the following companies to Peter Obi;

Next International Nigeria Ltd
Guardian Express Bank Plc.

However, investigations by our sources reveal that the name “Peter Obi” does not appear anywhere on the directors list of the companies. Check out the directors of Next international Nigeria Limited, and the directors of Guardian Express Bank Plc.

Peter Obi Awards

Peter Obi has received numerous awards for his outstanding business and political ventures. Among his honors and recognitions are the following:

Man of the Year, Sun Newspaper, 2007
Most Prudent Governor in Nigeria, Thisday Newspaper, 2009
Nigeria’s Most Trustworthy Governor, Champion Newspaper, 2009
Governor of the Year, West Africa ICT Development Award, 2010
Zik Leadership Prize, 2011
Best Performing Governor on Immunization in South-East Nigeria, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
Leadership and Good Governance Award, Ezeife Leadership Foundation, 2012
Golden Award on Prudence, Methodist Church of Nigeria, 2012
Man of the Year, Business Hallmark Newspaper, 2012
Man of the Year, Silverbird, 2013
Award for Outstanding Example in Leadership and Governance, The Voice Newspaper, 2014
Most Outstanding Igbo Man of the Decade, Champion Newspaper, 2014
Golden Merit Award, Nigerian Library Association, 2014
Golden Jubilee Award, Catholic Diocese of Onitsha, 2015

She is also well-known for her unwavering commitment to women’s empowerment and child protection initiatives. She aided in the establishment of family courts in the state’s Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development (MWAPD) to address issues of child abuse and violations of women’s rights, particularly the right of widowed women to inherit their late husband’s properties.

Peter Obi wife.

Mrs Margaret Obi is the legally married wife and mother of Nigerian politician Peter Obi’s two children.

She was born Margaret Brownson Usen but became Mrs Margaret Peter Obi after marrying the politician. Mrs Margaret Obi is a Cross River State native.

Peter Obi wife — Peter Obi at an Event alongside his wife. [Odogwu Blog]

Mrs Obi is known to be a very private person, so information about her background and work is scarce in the media.

Mrs Obi is said to be the brains behind her husband’s National Gender Affirmative Action, which encouraged at least 50% of employment slots to be given to women under her husband’s administration, according to reports.

Peter Obi Siblings

Peter Obi has two brothers and two sisters, according to reports. Mr Josephat Ndibe Obi is one of Peter Obi’s younger brothers. He is said to be a manager at one of his businesses.

His other younger brother, Dr Fabian Chinwuba Obi, is an ordained Reverend Father who was named acting rector of the Blessed Iwene Tansi Major Seminary in Onitsha in October 2020.

Lady Bibiana Adani (née Obi), Peter Obi’s elder sister, is running late. She died in 2018 at the age of 62 from an undisclosed illness and was buried at her husband’s home in Adani Village, Ukana, Enugu State.

Martina Obi, Peter Obi’s youngest sister, is unknown at this time.