CHRIS IBEKU

Eye witness account UN General Assembly New York United States

Yesterday I confirmed that African leaders are the richest in the world.

They arrived at UN in New York each in a convoy of over 20 powerful vehicles hired from American car hire companies.

I was shocked to see European leaders arriving at UN for the UN General Assembly in small cars and some arriving as a group of European leaders in Coasters..

The Prime Minister of UK arrived in a small car with the Prime Minister of Norway while Prime Minister of Italy arrived in same small car with prime Minister of Luxembourg one of the wealthiest economies.

The Germany chancellor arrived in a Mercedes benz with Prime Minister of sweden and prime Minister of Denmark, and three of them sleeping at a budget hotel in Manhattan.

African leaders took over very expensive hotels in lower Manhattan which is the headquarters of the Wall Street and the most expensive area in Manhattan borough.

Each African leader is staying in a separate five star hotel with his delegation of politicians from his country.

The African leaders plus their entourage are buying expensive items in New York.

Prime Minister of Israel is sleeping in a budget office far away in Queens borough of New York while Dutch Prime Minister is in the same budget hotel with Prime Minister of Malta and President of Czech Republic which is a highly developed nation..The Prime Minister of Slovakia is sleeping in Harlem in New York in a budget office together with leaders from Jordan.

The most shocking part of it is that African leaders took over at least 39 five star hotels in New York, the same Africa leaders are engaging European leaders asking for help to increase financial support to respective African nations.

I saw a German chancellor looking at African leaders arriving in big motorcades in total disbelief..he was shocked but still he went ahead to meet them.

The African leaders in New York are in pomp and proving how rich they are.

Eye Witness 🥹🥹

*THE FUTURE WE ARE WORKING FOR:*

*(His Excellency, Mr Peter Obi as the President of Nigeria)*

*Chief of Staff:* Good morning, Your Excellency Sir

*Peter Obi:* Una with dis una Excellency, can't you just say Good morning sir.

*Chief of Staff:* Okay, Good morning sir.

*Peter Obi:* Good morning my brother, how is your family?

*Chief of Staff:* We are fine sir. Thank you sir.

*Peter Obi:* What's the update my brother.

*Chief of Staff:* I am here to brief you about the preparation for the forthcoming United Nation General Assembly in New York sir.

*Peter Obi:* Ok, go on pls

*Chief of Staff:* Sir, if ok by you, you will be departing Nigeria on Tuesday sir since the UNGA will be commencing on Thursday, this will give you ample time to relax, then you are scheduled to return back to the country on Monday though the General Assembly will close on Saturday. You know it won't be proper to hurry out of America sir.

*Peter Obi:* (Looking at the man with full attention)

*Chief of Staff:* Your Excellency Sir, you will be accompanied on your journey by 8 of your ministers, 6 state governors (1 from each of the geopolitical zones), 5 SSAs, 5 SAs, 5PAs and 15 security personnels. You shall be traveling with one of the finest Presidential Jets

*Peter Obi:* (Removes his eye glasses, feeling agitated)

*Chief of Staff:* Sir, we are also making arrangements with one of the biggest hotels in New York for the reservation of all the rooms in that hotel for you and members of your entourage. All together, SIX BILLION NAIRA will be expended on the trip.

*Peter Obi:* (Jumping up from his seat like a man stung by a deadly scorpion) Six what?

*Chief of Staff:* Six Billion Naira sir

*Peter Obi:* Come my friend it seems that you have gone mad. Do you know what you are talking about? N6,000,000,000 for just a 3-Day General Assembly. Do you know that with that amount (pulls out his calculator), we can build six housing estates in the 6 geopolitical zones for low income earners? Do you know that with that amount we can fund 12 federal universities with N500 million each? Do you know how many kilometers of roads that amount can handle? Do you know with N100 million each, N6 billion naira can fund 60 public secondary schools in our country? Do you ...

*Chief of Staff:* (Cuts in gently) But your Excellency ...

*Peter Obi:* (Angrily cuts in) See young man don't provoke me this morning. This is what will happen. We shall leave on Wednesday night and join them on Thursday morning and come back to Nigeria on Saturday as soon as the Assembly closes

*Chief of Staff:* But you Excellency . . .

*Peter Obi:* (Ignores him) I shall be traveling with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and my Special Adviser on Trades and Investment. Three of us only. Do you hear me, three of us only. The UN will provide security for us. As for Presidential Jet, don't worry about that, I have already spoken to my friend Onyema of Peace Airline, they have reserved three seats for us in the economy class so that I can have an opportunity to interact with Nigerians.

*Chief of Staff:* But your Excellency, what will people say when they see our president traveling on ordinary commercial airlines?

*Peter Obi:* What do they say when the Pope travels on commercial airlines? Yes, as for accommodation. I will call my friend, Mike Adenuga, he has a house in New York, we shall sleep there for three days. I know he will not say no. See my brother, there is no money to throw away, things are hard.

*Chief of Staff:* But your Excellency, what will I tell the governors and the other ministers, they are already getting ready for the journey.

*Peter Obi:* (Smiling) Tell them things are no longer the same

*Chief of Staff:* Thank you sir (Pick his things to leave)

*Peter Obi:* Bia, my friend, when next you bring this type of paper to my office for approval, you will be relieved of your position.

*Chief of Staff:* I am very sorry sir. Truly, truly, THINGS ARE NO LONGER THE SAME

FOR A BETTER NIGERIA, SUPPORT (H.E. PETER GREGORY OBI) FOR PRESIDENT
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*Peter Obi beyond being Igbo*
*— By Hamza Sani*

Please don’t assume that you know Ndi Igbo that much. If you brought a Rochas or Ikpeazu today to govern Nigeria, Ndi Igbo will rather vote a Kwankwaso. The problem here is that Peter was governor of Anambra and never blowed his trumpet as an achiever but Ndi Igbo recognized his performance. But because this was known only to Ndi Igbo at that time is why his appearance at the national scene first got their endorsement before others started hearing about his story.

But don’t forget Ndi Igbo will always go for competence if allowed to make their choices in any circumstances and they have been right on many occasions. Ndi Igbo massively supported Obasanjo from the south west and under Obasanjo the economy was growing; Ndi Igbo were right. Ndi Igbo massively supported Yaradua, under Yaradua peace was restored to Nigeria and the economy continued to grow; Ndi Igbo were right. Ndi Igbo massively supported Jonathan because they believed it was good to support a minority to achieve fairness and under Jonathan Nigeria became the biggest economy in Africa even though the corruption in PDP became obvious; Ndi Igbo were right.

Ndi Igbo refused to support Buhari because those who had experienced his regime in 1984 knew he was not a good manager of the economy and Ndi Igbo being lovers of business understood how it will turn out. Not because Buhari was a northerner; after all they have supported Yaradua and Atiku before even though they are northerners. And the Igbo supporters of Buhari were as much passionate.

Seven years after Ndi Igbo rejected Buhari because of their understanding of how business work, they have been proven right. Today inflation is spiraling out of control and Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world with mounting debt. Dollars has gone beyond the imagination of Naira, insecurity is worst than ever imagined and the country is in total disarray.

Even take it back to 1967 before Nigeria’s civil war, Ojukwu insisted on restructured Nigeria at Aburi so that the country can make progress but he was termed a rebel. But almost Forty years after some people started insisting on the restructuring of Nigeria, including our amiable Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who understands the importance of it.

Meaning that on many occasions in our national trajectory Ndi Igbo have been proven right but for whatever reason some people hate to love Ndi Igbo and have sought to blackmail them with ethnic prescriptions because many a times they stand boldly for what they believed in.

Yet it is Ndi Igbo that goes everywhere in Nigeria to live, invest, build, develop and live. No other ethnic group in Nigeria does that. Even when they say it is because indigenous people allowed them to I tend to wonder why they are not allowing other ethnic groups and why I don’t see heavy Yoruba investments in the north and prominent markets and businesses of northerners in the west. They don’t invest in each other’s domain and don’t build massively in each other’s domain but they claim they are more one Nigerian than Ndi Igbo who are ready to relocate with their families and billions to Niger state to start massive agricultural businesses if given the opportunity and they may never return to Igbo land if the state remains peaceful.

Put it this way: Ndi Igbo like a thriving society and not Ethnic jingoism, they have eyes for prosperity and not tribe or religion, they are bold to even condemn their own as long as he does not meet the standard. If you want to understand better how they think, bring a T. A Orji as PDP candidate, Rochas as APC candidate and an Adeshina of African Development Bank as Labour Party candidate and you will be shocked that both Igbo candidates mentioned will fail woefully in Igbo land because Ndi Igbo will not support such characters.

Obi has a good record in Anambra but was not known to many in Nigeria because Obi does not blow his trumpet. Yet Obi has been supporting education in northern Nigeria, including places like Sokoto and Benue without making noise; that is his style.

Yet if you are to situate Nigeria on equity and fairness doctrine, south east absolutely merits presidency at this time and if Peter Obi where to be their choice he is one of the finest Nigeria can get at the moment. He is passionate about Nigeria and he knows how Nigeria can be transformed, he has success stories both in private and public sector to show for his ingenuity and he is within the right age to undertake the task.

But the support he is getting is because those who know him knows his capacity to make a difference and those who are truthful to themselves, unbiased, not tribalistic and indeed God fearing knows that he stands out in this race.

But all power belongs to God and he gives rulership to who he wills as long as citizens make the right choices.

Hamza Sani Writes From Abuja