Peter Obi should not only congratulate the Ghanaian President-elect, John Mahama. More importantly, he should learn from Mahamudu Bawumia, who came second in the Presidential election, and Nana Kwame Bediako, who came third. The election was held on Saturday, December 7, 2024, and the Ghana Electoral Commission has still not officially released the results. Yet, both Mr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Nana Kwame Bediako officially conceded defeat yesterday, Sunday, December 8, 2024. That is a teachable moment for Peter Obi, a candidate who came a distant third in the #NigerianElections2023, yet refused to concede that he lost and like a typical cult leader, continued to feed his followers that he won the election, not the declared winner, or the first runner up. How a third place finisher could have defeated both the front runner and his immediate opponent was never explained by Mr. Obi. And when he got to the court, even his own petition did not claim he won. Rather, he petitioned that the winner, President Tinubu, should be disqualified for being ineligible to contest. Today, he congratulates Mr. John Mahama, who has not yet been officially declared but is now accepted as the President-elect because his closest challengers conceded. What a lesson for Nigeria in general and Peter Obi in particular. In Ghana, losers concede graciously. In Nigeria, they go on TV, rub mentholatum on their eyes, and shed crocodile tears. Reno Omokri Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.

Dear Peter Obi, I think that arrest for alleged defamation and libel is an overkill. In such circumstances, the defamer or libellous person should be sued in court. Except this is a case of criminal defamation or slander. Then, the arrest is in order. Having said that, I do recall that during your tenure as Governor of Anambra, Nasir el-Rufai visited your state and was unlawfully detained on your orders, according to him and those in the know. You were the Governor and chief security officer of the state. The buck stopped at your desk. The arrest was brought to your attention. You had a personal grudge against Mr. El-Rufai and misused your powers. You did nothing to free Nasir El-Rufai. Not only did you not take any remedial action in 2013 when Mr. El-Rufai was arrested, but you also did not call it a "gross misuse" of powers. My question to you is this: how are you better than those you are now accusing? In any case, I join my voice with yours to call for the release of Mr. Farotimi, just as the British authorities also released you after your detention at London's Heathrow Airport. Reno Omokri Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.

If Archbishop Chukwuma feels this way, then what does he want the family of Brigadier Ademulegun to say? Mrs. Latifah Ademulegun was married to Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun. She was eight months pregnant when, on the night of January 15, 1966, Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu stormed into her matrimonial bedroom to kill her husband. She got up from the bed and, stood in front of her husband, and refused to move. Major Onwuatuegwu then gunned down both her and her husband. Their two underaged children, Solape and Kole, ran into the room and began to cry at the trauma of seeing both their parents' bloodstained bodies. They never recovered from the shock. What about the family of Sardauna? What should they say? Just a little over thirty minutes before, Hafsatu Bello, Sir Ahmadu Bello's first wife, did the same thing. She planted herself in front of her husband as a human shield, thinking that that would stop Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu. But that was not to be. Nzeogwu gunned down both her and her husband. What about the family of Colonel Kur Mohammed? The manner in which Major Chris Anuforo killed Lt. Colonel Kur Mohammed was particularly evil. Kur Mohammed did not resist or beg for his life. Rather, he started praying without asking for permission, at which point Anuforo rained bullets on his back. Some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business, and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and, for some strange reason, decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria. But, of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, millions of people believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it. The truth is that if the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria is still suffering from today! There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed. Out of 21 people killed by the January 15, 1966 coup plotters, only Lt. Colonel Arthur Unegbe was an Igbo, and the reason he was killed was because he was the QuarterMaster-General, Army Headquarters, Lagos, and therefore was in charge of the armoury. If Major General Ironsi had punished the January 15, 1966 plotters as promised, there would not have been the counter-coup and the civil war. The core Northern officers were pacified to an extent after Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi promised them he would try the January 15, 1966 coup plotters. Unfortunately, Aguiyi-Ironsi did not try them. Maybe he planned to do so later on, but up until July, he had not. Then word got out that those arrested, including the most brutal of them, Major Chris Anuforo, were still receiving salaries in prison and, worse, were scheduled to be promoted. That riled the Northern officers. Additionally, Igbos in the North were accused of mocking the late Sardauna, Ahmadu Bello. Some people had printed almanacks of his face on a goat's body. Others had made posters of Major Nzeogwu as Angel Michael, with his sword drawn and his leg on the head of satan, who was depicted as the Sardauna. During the last election, some people repeated these same vile behaviours. To add salt to injury, amusician named Celestine Ukwu released a song in Igbo titled Ewu Ne Ba Akwa, meaning ‘the goat is crying’, which Northerners felt mocked the Sardauna. The Archbishop should consider this before making statements that reopen old wounds.

Google it. Mr. Ibu set up a fundraiser for Peter Obi when he was healthy. Billions of Naira were raised from that fundraiser. The least Peter Obi can do is use some of the billions raised from that fundraiser to help Mr. Ibu now that he has health challenges. This is not a matter of insult from you, Obidients. First, get Peter Obi to donate. You can insult me later! #TableShaker