Peter Obi challenges Tinubu's absences as Shettima defends subsidy removal

Ojy Okpe's Arise News broadcast pairs the campaign speeches with questions about Nigeria's online voter register.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 180,312 views a day, 84 times a normal first day on this channel (2,148).

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5:15Obi criticizes Tinubu's travels and argues that Nigeria needs a president who is available.
11:03Abati argues that opposition candidates need concrete policies and manifestos alongside criticism of the administration.
16:53Shettima defends petrol subsidy removal and dismisses Obi's statistics as no substitute for solutions.
21:52Soludo argues that buying Nigerian-made goods could generate jobs.
33:00Okpe reviews reported voter-register problems, including missing names, deceased people listed and suspected AI-generated photographs.

What does Peter Obi want voters to judge first: the president's policies or his presence? In a campaign speech featured on Arise News, the NDC presidential candidate makes availability part of his argument for replacing Bola Tinubu.

"Nigeria needs a president that will be available, that will be there," Obi tells supporters at the inauguration of his party's National Campaign Council in Abuja. He criticizes Tinubu's travels abroad and argues that governing means solving problems rather than assigning blame.

The speech anchors a fast-starting edition of What's Trending with Ojy Okpe, which reached roughly 123,000 views in its first half-day, far beyond the channel's usual start for a regular video.

Vice President Kashim Shettima supplies the administration's response in a separate speech at the Nigerian Economic Summit. Defending the removal of the petrol subsidy, he dismisses Obi's reliance on statistics and argues that the opposition candidate offers no real solutions. Back in the studio, Reuben Abati presses the distinction between forceful campaign criticism and a concrete governing program.

The broadcast also moves from campaign arguments to the machinery of voting. Okpe reports complaints about the preliminary online voter register, including missing names, deceased people allegedly still listed and photographs suspected of being AI-generated. Those are reported concerns, not established findings that the register has been compromised. INEC says claims and objections will still be processed before the final register is published.

Arise News's other fast-starting uploads include APC spokesperson Felix Morka's defense of Tinubu's poverty record, giving viewers a separate, extended account of the governing party's case.

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The facts

Channel: Arise News
Subscribers: 1,260,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 5,375,453
Channel views, pace per day: 739,418 (on a normal day: 652,942)
Video published: October 27, 2026
Video views so far: 122,701 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 180,312

The numbers

The Okpe broadcast drew an unusually large early audience for an Arise News regular video. Several other political uploads also started well above their usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

2,148

this video

180,312

subscribers

1,260,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

806,352,087

views per day

739,418