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I am ObiDient but not unreasonable, egoistic and utopian.

May 2022, some days leading to People Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Primaries, Mr Peter Obi defected from PDP as one of its presidential aspirants alleging that the moneybags have hijacked the processes leading to the main opposition selection of its standard bearer in the 2023 Nigeria General Election. A few days after, he announced on his verified Twitter handle that he is now of Labour Party (LP). A few weeks later, he won his new party’s presidential primaries unopposed.

The emergency of Peter Obi took on a twitterstorm. The netizens who are yawning for a break from the two main political parties who have but wrecked untold miseries on Nigerians took his emergence as their project hence they nicknamed themselves ObiDients.

Before we know what is happening, the opponents mainly of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate camp, Babatunde Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) codely tagged BATists started making jest of the ObiDients telling them they have no structure to win a presidential election in the country. Soon the jestings denigrated into personal insults, mockeries, threats to lives and properties, arguments and counterarguments among ObiDients and BATists. Occasionally drawn into the battle are PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s camp known as Atikulates.

The ObiDient called the BATists, agbadoist. BATists replied by calling them ObiDiots. They called them thieving structures, they said they are structureless. They said anybody who isn’t ObiDient is a national enemy and tribalistic, they replied that Peter Obi is a regional candidate and that they will announce the obituary of their ambition next February at the presidential poll bla bla bla.

Now, let’s get down to business. Who are the real ObiDients, ObiDiots and whose ambition’s obituary will be announced next year? First of all, as I have said, I am ObiDient but not irrational, egoistic and unrealistic like many of my fellow ObiDient especially of Igbo extraction who see anyone not supporting Peter Obi as tribalistic. Two, why am I ObiDient? I am ObiDient based on fairness and equality. Since the end of the 1963 Nigeria civil war, nobody of Igbo descent has ever held the number one seat in the country despite having qualified personalities from that region and tribe. The Gentleman agreement of power rotation between North and South has always been between majority Northern Hausa-Fulanis Muslim and majority Yorubas Christian down south. I believe it’s the turn of our Igbo brothers and sisters. Àwon lókàn.*

Still, on fairness and equality, the 2023 General Election presents Nigerians with the choice of picking either a devourer, an armed robber, or a petty thief but I will leave you to decide who is the former, the middle and the latter.

Three, will Obi win? I doubt it. Political parties and political alliances matter in Nigeria’s kind of politics. But why are you still voting for him? I am voting for him because I will not use my hands to endorse evil. Obi is not a messiah but Peter is better. Nevertheless, I believe in miracles.

Nevertheless, who are the ObiDients people? I believed ObiDients are people who believe in the presidential ambition of Mr. Peter Obi and are doing everything within the ambit of the law to make sure that that dream comes to pass without threatening any BATist or Atikulate. I have four people who are very close to me that are registered members of PDP and APC.

A real ObiDient is a person that believes in the freedom of speech, choice, and association of every Nigerian and will make sure that those rights are upheld irrespective of the person’s tribe, religion, and political leaning. Gbogbo wa o le sun la kori sibi kanna**.

If you believe otherwise as a Peter Obi’s supporter, then you are an ObiDiot. For example, if you as an Igbo believe that anyone not supporting Peter Obi is tribalistic, then you are an ObiDiot. Are all Igbos ObiDient? Are all Yorubas, BATists and are all Hausa-Fulanis, Atikulates?

If you are threatening anybody from opposing camps either on or offline, you are ObiDiot.

If you believe Obi is the messiah and he no dey give shishi***, you are an imperial ObiDiot. Obi is no messiah neither is he a devourer nor an armed robber. 😃😃😃

If you break any ship that has been of any help to you in past, be it relationSHIP, courtSHIP, mentorSHIP, parentSHIP, memberSHIP, siblingSHIP, etc., because of Peter Obi (or any politician), you are a full-blown ObiDiot. The eventual losers are not losing anything per se.

Lastly, anyone [the politicians and willing citizens] who they use you as a thug, money sharer, e-bandit, fake new distributor, e-terrorist, election disrupter, vandals, rigger, etc., during this election period, they will have an obituary of their ambitions on that day in Jesus name and may God announces the obituary of ambition of anyone who plans to subject us to further miseries in Jesus name. Amen.

Thanks for reading.

* it is their turn. ** All of us can not sleep and put heads in the same direction meaning we can’t think alike. *** Obi don’t give anybody money to support him.