Sam Omatseye

Valentine Obienyem. The other day, Mr. Sam Omatseye – a writer many used to have respect for due to some reasons, including the fluidity of his prose ...

Even when the likes of Peter Obi tries everything possible to make others see politics as friendly struggle for power by playing it with the categorical imperative of love, Omatseye and his ilk make it look forbidden. For what he habitually does, Omatseye is another example of how not to be a man of letters. Poor PR strategy!” As if offering advice to Omatseye and his tribe, he concluded: “Sell your product first.” In Igbo parlance, a child without parents gain when the one with parents is advised. He is now on a weekly pilgrimage to churches.” The truth which you may verify is that since 2014 when Obi left office, he has been visiting schools and Churches to support what they do towards the good of the society. “So, our calculation was that if the State would be able to save a particular amount (US$18-20 million) as we did in eight years, up until 2030 at the average interest rate of a little over 6%, we would be able to achieve about a billion Dollars in savings and earnings. Who says we cannot demand from Omatseye the real name of his patron, the clearing of the cloud surrounding his education and the clarification of the fact of having been jailed in the USA once upon a time. But it counts for little.” The fact is that Next Mall in Abuja was conceived and started long before Peter Obi became a State Governor. Before then, Next already had facilities bigger that the Abuja Mall. For the instruction of Omatseye and his admirers, Peter Obi’s candidacy cannot be reduced to an ethnic movement. To prove to you how depraved Omatseye has descended into, because the “turn” of his master is “challenged”, let us consider some of his words: “Kanu lashes out at Obi as governor and stated what this essayist wrote about him over building a NEXT supermarket while still the governor of Anambra State. The video clip referred to him as a sort of sexual being on the fringe. Omatseye may not know that I have come a long way with “The Nation”Newspaper not to be denied such a right. It is hard to find, in all records of opinion-writing, a piece more barbarous, stinking, and oozing scalding lava of obscene volcanic words not just about a person, but also about a people – The Igbos. Like a sightless lover whose inexplicable increase in hydraulic pressure drove to a blind erotic hunger that led to rape, Omatseye employed the weapons he is at home with: satire, ridicule, vituperation and crafty distortion of the truth. I appropriately sent the rejoinder to Mr. Sam Omatseye, who, contrary to the liberality of “The Nation” newspaper refused to present it for publication.

Sam Omatseye, chairman of The Nation newspaper editorial board, has asked Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to call his supporters ...

He did Muslim Muslim they said it is not about religion. Perhaps the purists of the Biafran cause are unhappy, and they unleashed a past video clip of Kanu on social media. If anything happens to me, you will be held responsible!!!! Mr. Peter Obi, call you supporters to order. If anything happens to me, you will be held responsible!!!!,” Omatseye tweeted. “Mr. Peter Obi, call you[r] supporters to order.

Nkatọ, iwe na okwu niile gbasoro ihe Sam Omatseye dere n'edemede ya ọ kpọro 'Obi-tuary'.

"Ndị Biafra so na ya nwere nkwenye na ọ bụ site n'Obi ka ha ga-esi abọ Gọọmenti Naijiria ọbọ." N'edemede ahụ Omatseye dere ọ kpọrọ "Obi-Tuary", ọ katọrọ Obi si na ọ na-agagharị n'ụlọụka dị iche iche na-eme ka ọ bụ onye nsọ. Onyeisoche akwụkwọ akụkọ 'The Nation' bụ Sam Omatseye etiela mkpu na ndụ ya nọ n'egwu dịka o boro ebubo na ndị na-akwado Peter Obi na-ezitere ya ozi mmaja igbu ya.

Mr Sam Omatseye, Chairman, Editorial Board of The Nation, and a columnist with the newspaper has raised an alarm that some individuals in the camp of Labour ...

It is the pragmatism of the cause. It is their own version of the Trojan War. Obi is the Greek Gift that they will ride in the battle for conquest. Obi is like Zik, Kanu like Ojukwu. One is a flair, the other a flare. Obi is out in the open, a bird in hand. Those in south-south have been seduced as by the cooing of Obi’s voice as by evangelism of the Biafrans. Mind you, they have not abandoned Kanu. But their icon has no power for now. He is playing to it by acting as though he is the saint of Nigerian politics. Obi is taking a Machiavellian attitude to the matter. He is happy to be their catharsis, to be their excuse for unfurling their bile at the system, for acting like revolutionaries. This is the man who is speaking from both sides of his mouth for maintaining an offshore account while a governor. They are not falling foul of the law, not howling from the fringes. In it, Kanu lashes out at Obi as governor and stated what this essayist wrote about him over building a NEXT supermarket while still the governor of Anambra State. The video clip referred to him as a sort of sexual being on the fringe. The chants and caterwauling are everywhere, especially on the phones.

By Nwafor Sunday. Former aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, has reacted to the alleged death threats of Sam Omatseye.

“You say you are not IPOB. Look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? It is the same modus operandi these guys are using. Omatseye is a columnist in Nation newspapers.

Some have called you foolish, dear Sam Omatseye. Others insist that you are plain stupid. There are those who hold you to be beneath contempt.

You reckon not one bit that the youths that are sick and tired of the sanguinary dreariness and aridity of your principal’s vanishing epoch. You forget that it was not Ojukwu but those that reneged on the Aburi Accord that tossed a lit match in an ocean of gasoline. It is in the thing they deceptively call Obidients. That Movement is going to RALLY the Igbos of Lagos in a way that they haven’t ever been rallied. Buhari is president of this country; those of his people campaigning for the Islamic State haven’t thrust their swords in their scabbards. In the light of the above, readers would have to judge for themselves whether or not it is right for you, Sam, to say the following of Ndigbo: “They have transferred the temperament of their former master into the new. But Mr. Obi gave his date of birth, the name of his parents, the town he hails from, the schools he attended and the businesses he is into. Except that your coronation disdains the fact that your brand of perceptive journalism is only seasonal. All the Igbo fighters for June 12 were not dissuaded by the fact that their struggle was to actualise the electoral mandate of Chief Abiola, a Yoruba politician. They have had a switch of battle gear.” This clearly is a perfidious way of sentencing Ndigbo to the status of the bat that is neither bird nor mammal. This, again, is your characterisation of the Igbo: “They can say they have a legitimate tribe and rhetoric. Together with the handful that is still blessed with something close to robust health, they have one thing in common. It continued upon your return and strengthened to the point that, sometimes, you get the producers of your TV Continental programme to connect me to field questions live.

“Mr. Peter Obi, call your supporters to order. They are calling and issuing death threats. If anything happens to me, you will be held responsible!” Omatseye ...

Ndigbo will not fall for that bait because what is at stake in 2023 is far bigger than Tinubu and Obi. It is about Nigeria and ‘Kept Men’ like Sam Omatseye (apologies to Uzor Maxim-Uzoatu) are too inconsequential in the prevailing circumstance. It is this realisation that informed the principled stance of Yoruba leaders such as Pa Adebanjo who have thrown their considerable moral weight behind Obi’s aspiration and ultimatum rejection of Tinubu’s nauseating entitlement mentality. But Obi is neither running as an Igbo candidate nor is he gunning for the presidency of the South-East. Being in the crosshairs of Tinubu’s vaunting political ambition is the only excuse that Omatseye needs to assume the role of a vicious attack dog. It is amazing that those who ridiculed Ndigbo only yesterday as people lacking in political sagacity and worth are today wetting their underthings just because an Igbo man is on the 2023 ballot. If anything, it is Tinubu that from the onset adorned his quest in ethnic garbs. Just as he did with his ‘obituary’ article, in June 2011, Omatseye, to the revulsion of all, launched an unprovoked attack on the Awolowo family in an article titled, “Awo Family Without An Awo”. A man who, without any qualms, eviscerates nonagenarians as he did to Mama Awolowo, Pa Adebanjo and many others, just to ingratiate himself with another man is lost. Having just lost my daughter less than two months ago, I also expect that normal people would spare me the kind of vitriolic attack that was unleashed on my person and my family; particularly as such an attack was entirely unprovoked.” If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. None! They only had the audacity to choose their friends and refused to fawn over Omatseye’s god. But I was relieved when I was told he was hale and hearty.

Ex-aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan Reno Omokri has said no amount of attacks can bring down Chairman of The Nation Newspaper Editorial Board, ...

“Sam Omatseye is one of the most intelligent men in Nigeria bar very few. Omokri said: “You say your movement is not linked to IPOB. Yet, look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? It is the same modus operandi these guys are using.

Sam Omatseye finished Peter Obi, and dressed him in a bishop's robe the day Shettima had his ascension ritual.

But this case of Sam Omatseye is different only in the way the scented offal finally decomposed. Sam Omatseye finished Peter Obi. Like a man who bathes in the breath of John Donne, by finishing Peter Obi, Sam Omatseye avoided diminishing Sam Omatseye. His excessive kindness and sympathy were irritating to the uninitiated. Sam Omatseye finished Peter Obi. And with that, he delivered the preface of his final testament of the chronicle of a psychosis foretold. Sam Omatseye finished Peter Obi. Like a man who bathes in the breath of John Donne, by finishing Peter Obi, Sam Omatseye avoided diminishing Sam Omatseye. His excessive kindness and sympathy were irritating to the uninitiated. But this case of Sam Omatseye is different only in the way the scented offal finally decomposed. Or maybe, just maybe, he wanted to embarrass his warlords in Daura. We think Daura because Omatseye would dare not embarrass the Jagaban of scented offal. The poet dies who fears flags waving in the air, anthems gushing out of speakers, and feet stomping on dusty famished apian ways. I love the poetry of Sam Omatseye. It is his prose that I have a problem with. But if he had gone too close and wiped his glass clear of Bola Tinubu’s saliva, he would have seen the ghost popping out of the veins leading to the most sensitive part of the fowl’s anus. Or maybe, just maybe, he wanted to embarrass his warlords in Daura. We think Daura because Omatseye would dare not embarrass the Jagaban of scented offal. Also taken away was Peter Obi’s medal that stated that despite the loud sounds of the drum of the spirit child, something good could come out of the East. Sam Omatseye swept all those medals into Itsekiri gutters. But what he did to the Biafrans in the same column made me wonder if nobody has ever hugged Sam Omatseye and told him that his story of Biafra is valid, and as such, he should not lose touch with his scented offal.