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Dear Peter Obi,
Whoever handles your personal PR should be fired and where there isn't anyone, you should engage capable hands and minds because you still don't get it.
I believe I first saw this clip posted by Festus Olanrewaju Ojo and alongside it, the caption, referencing a quote from within:
*[Obi says FG doesn't want him to be a candidate. But he insists that he will be.]*
What Peter does not get:
2023 was a year so RIPE for anyone to take hold of what already existed and ride on that to Victory or at least make significant impact in disrupting the Status Quo.
What you saw as an OBIDIENT MOVEMENT was the general DISCONTENT across the country for a variety of reasons.
Harsh living conditions met up with EndSARS, IPOB was running riot, the HERDSMEN were roaming free.
Hunger sought out the equally miserable Lack of Jobs and Opportunities, so much so that IF a goat had presented itself as an Opposition candidate, it would have possibly trotted to ASO ROCK in victory.
HOWEVER, you FAILED not only to make the best of the opportunity but made your Presidential bid all about you, the person.
Hence you ran as a LONE RANGER promising UTOPIA in a Me against The Establishment mode.
What Peter missed..
In the aftermath of your abject failure, you do not seem to have learnt anything.
In the aftermath amid euphoria of the performance of the Labour Party and the resolute voting of the OBIDIENTS, you FAILED again to show yourself as a man of Strategy driven by a Collective Cause and have again gone on this SOLO RUN in the search for a Presidential Ticket.
Again you will fail and even worse BECAUSE the magic of the OBIDIENT movement will not repeat itself as it has and will wane AND the establishment will be better prepared.
Your Campaign has always been about you. Failing to HARNESS and BUILD on the OBIDIENT MOVEMENT and a Party Platform over the ensuing THREE YEARS has shown your weakness at both Leadership and Trustworthiness.
Imagine if you had taken hold of both the MOVEMENT and the PARTY three years ago. Where would you, the movement and the party be today?
A formidable force, I would have said.
Repeating this LONE RANGER Act will be more difficult this time round.
In between '23 and '26 you have not only helped to destabilise the Labour Party but abandoned the Obidient Movement you rode to prominence but are seemingly running from gathering to gathering in search for a home where you and only you can be the Presidential Candidate.
Whatever happened to reinforcing and growing the established Labour Party and maximising the opportunities that both the Obidient Movement and the General discontent across the country presented?
The Oppostion will be better prepared. The Movement would have lost its momentum and not much will change by way of results cross the country.
As for your PR at the moment? The air is filled with whinging and whining, and truth be told, that voice of yours doesn't help.
Now we are down to playing Paranoid Victim as a card?
Do not overrate yourself or importance in the overall scheme of winning elections in Nigeria else SPOILER is all you will be crowned at the end of the next elections.
WINNING ELECTIONS in Nigeria is not about the BEST SUITED or MOST EDUCATED or the MOST CAPABLE .. it is about WHO CAN WIN and the dynamics within that mindset are numerous and varied.. You do not have what that takes.
I think the author of that post is a borderline imbecile. He is asking that Obi be the very thing Nigerians are tired of and voting against. If elections in Nigeria are not about who is most capable but about who can win, then that is a grave indictment on us as a people. We have done who can 'win' several times now, where has it gotten us? Suggesting that Obi dines with devils to guarantee winning is an affront on the millions who believe that something good can still come out of this country.
ReplyDeleteIt is not really about Obi. He is just a personification of the desperate hope in the land. But so long as the majority of the Nigerian voting population are illiterates, the desired candidate will never win in Nigeria.
You don’t get it. Are you saying Obi is not and has never been one of “them”? What the author is saying he should have learnt to play his cards well by now. He can roll or pretend to roll with the pigs (BAT and El-Rufai QED) and once he wins, he will then start to implement his “elephant” policies.
DeleteDespite jumping from APGA to PDP and then Labour, some people still voted enmasse for him because they believed him to be a “better” devil.
He failed to harness the goodwill from the Obidient and the Labour Party. He instead jumped to ADC again (helping to destroy Labour Party (as usual) to try and get Presidential ticket where the unforgiving and unrepentant Atiku (the loser) is already established. Does he think they will give him the ticket?
He won’t get the ticket and then move to another party. What he fails to realise is he loses goodwill each time he moves to a different party. Imagine his supporters down to the grassroots having to wait to hear the next party their “messiah” has moved to and to vote for?
He lacks a good understanding of Nigerian politics and politicians and he is not consistent with his lies and forgets what he has said in the past. If this Peter is already begging and calling a pastor “daddy”, what will he be calling the “generals” and big wigs pulling the strings of happenings in Nigeria?
How do you unseat a man that OBJ (with all powers and corruption agencies at his beck and call) could not unseat as Lagos governor? How do unseat that person who now has the power of incumbency and support (whether willing or unwilling) of 30 state governors(go and study how Babagana Kingibe became VP to Abiola)?
Rather than allow selfish thoughts to becloud your understanding of what the author has written, why not read with open mind that the author is trying to nudge Peter towards what he needs to do? Peter will continue to be a SPOILER as long as he doesn’t understand Nigerian politics.
Excuse any typos.
Thank you for the good summary and addition hope they learn
DeleteWhich person in Nigeria now that you want to be voted for that will be incorruptible.
DeleteNo one, no one and absolutely no body.
Even yourself who supports Peter Obi cannot head any esterblishment and withstand the pressure of corruption within.
Yes daddy will still not get it. lol, I laughed at "that voice of yours doesn't help", personally I cannot listen to anything anyone with that type of voice has to say for more than 5 seconds.
ReplyDeleteThat’s because obi knows he can’t rule Nigeria Ever‼️
DeleteYou can imagine Trump threatening to blow up Iraq with that type of voice
DeleteNA God give am voice. I have no grouse with that. Selfishness is the issue here.
DeleteObi had absolute control of APGA till he wandered away over a slight from his protege (who exposed how bad he is at assessing capacity). Had he sat tight as a party leader and given Obiano the fright of his life, as Wike is doing and Tinubu, Wammako, Ibori did, that one would have ported to somewhere else and left his structure for him. He would not have needed labor or PDP.
APGA leadership, chosen by Obi were anywhere belle face. Obi himself was me myself and I. They went for what was offered on overcrowded ground and have come back with nothing. Soludo has locked the door in a way that the next governor won't have to give it up. PDP is firmly in Wike's grip today. Atiku has cornered ADC and needs Obi for spread and SE and Christians are not looking for VP. The one who thinks himself wisest is the one being had.
Obi will still join APC but he won't have the leverage and will have to wait his turn. Aregbesola is making the same mistake. You don't because of a minor actor, lose sight of what matters.
Awon omo Daddy are making me laugh with how they are vibrating in the comments section. The most predictable election is underway, all things being equal and they are pretending as if they are living in Congo.
DeleteI realized people actually volunteered 8 years of their lives to rant and rave about suffering in this dispensation despite the government doing all their savior said he will do. No comment about inflation dropping steadily for 18 months (now in single digis) , forex steady if not reducing in cost , fuel prices dropping with no queues for about 3 years, first in Nigeria's history.
You sacrificed 8 years to nag about Buhari who okay, performed below standards because he was obsessed with keeping Tinub's influence under check. Now that much needed reforms that Argentina and others are using to revive their economies are underway, you have chosen to continue to drag suffer with people in Sudan.
Gibberish upon gibberish!
ReplyDeleteYou lack basic understanding of issues, that's why you termed the writeup gibberish.
DeleteEka, this is way above your intellect hence your comment. Na only to dey fight for women right and abuse people, your brain reach
DeleteAlways hiding under anon because you cannot be bold enough to support the ediots you support with ur full chest! Oponu!
DeleteThis is not polygamy, cheating, fashion gist. Leave it for adults.
DeleteIt's because of people like this Eka that comments have reduced on here. She thinks she has monopoly on insults. It's a shame that people who even try to defend themselves against her insults have that right of reply and defence taken away from them. Eka you will insult the wrong person one day and get absolutely what you deserve.
Delete18:11 if it’s not stupidity, there’s nothing else I can suggest that must be wrong with u! I commented on a post, I got insulted. I responded and you say I’m insulting. You must be very very stupid! I hope that insult is enough for me to get what I deserve! Oponu!
DeleteAlways under anon so u don’t taint ur giveaway ID. Fool!
I couldn't read past the first paragraph to know that this is just another rambling of an idiot. The last paragraph then confirmed it.
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteI don't have strength to comment on certain discussions anymore. Your comment just cracked me up. I have to go back and read both the first and last paragraph once again.
©️ TEEJAY
OMG 😆😆😂they will never learn. Even when you give them the cheat sheet or answers to the exam questions, they will always fail.
DeleteTeejay, the writeup is way above your intellect hence your lack of understanding. This is not all those your low IQ stories about yard people or beer parlour in your hood.
DeleteEveryone is trying to ride on Obis name to get attention. Why are they worried about him. Why are they recruiting online bullies if they trust in their capability.
ReplyDeleteElection was held around my place yesterday and each person was given 20k just to vote a candidate.
One thing is sure, those that are crying against Obi will still stay in places like mine where we get light less than an hour daily. Were all parastaltal claims to over shoot their targets yet contracts are awarded daily with contractors protesting to.be paid.
We all will be fine.
If you think Peter Obi is a messiah, then you must be sitting on a long thing and not the pleasurable kind.
DeleteWhat was his antecedent as governor: civil servants discontent, a year long doctors strike and policies that didn't seem to make any meaningful economic impact.
What are his antecedents that gives you the confidence to make that projection?
Its politics: it's ethnic loyalty and stubborn emotional support but that support should not be blind... Eyes wide shut at all times.
Leave Obi out of your stupid mouth and enjoy your candidate in peace. Time shall tell.
DeleteA PeterObi dolt. That's why you lots lost an election that was for the taking last time. ..idiotic and as garrulous as their mentor.
DeleteLet him pass the primaries first if he can.
Baby politician always looking for free vehicles to ride on... That's who wants to rule this great nation?? 😆 🤣 😂 I laugh in swahiĺi.
Go and face ADC primaries. It's not when he doesn't get the ticket, y'all come here with your usual cries of foul play.
Jokers with the i.q of a spongebob
A PeterObi dolt. That's why you lots lost an election that was for the taking last time. ..idiotic and as garrulous as their mentor.
DeleteLet him pass the primaries first if he can.
Baby politician always looking for free vehicles to ride on... That's who wants to rule this great nation?? 😆 🤣 😂 I laugh in swahiĺi.
Go and face ADC primaries. It's not when he doesn't get the ticket, y'all come here with your usual cries of foul play.
Jokers with the i.q of a spongebob
13:03, leave people who are drowning in delusions to their chosen fate.
DeleteYou underestimate the fear of success.
These guys are so worked up in professional victimhood that they NEED another clear loss to affirm their belief that a mediocre governor with one watch will beat people who have the groundwork down. Have you not heard them demand Elon Musk of DOGE fame should handle the election?
A very stupid write up. So Obi should be penalised for not playing Nigeria dirty political games?
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how you guys are not getting it even 4 years after.
DeleteYou are experts at knowing the weaknesses, failures and problems of other candidates, other parties and Nigeria but you get very touchy and angry once they try to point out what is not okay with your messiah.
First know that no man is perfect or an angel so this deluded picture of excellence you have about Peter Obi is a fluke.
Obi talks too much and is all over the place doing cho cho cho, it is therefore very easy to see his flaws, inconsistencies and lack of depth on issues of economy and security because it is stored on the internet.
They asked him about security he starts talking about when he washed toilet on BA, there are so many of such online, but you are quick to say it is fake while you can't produce the alternative speech he made.
Everything is always China, Vietnam, Singapore and Pakistan. He is very quick to run down Nigeria in his speeches and tweets, the same country he is aspiring to lead.
Obi is very selfish, his campaigns are all about himself, he is not good at building a team, how many of the people around him are quality materials that can be ministers, not noisemakers. is it Randy Peters or Aisha or Mamapee?
He was governor for 8years but none of the people that served with him in those 8years are campaigning with him today. A lot of people that were with him just 3 or 4 years ago have left him. What is it about him that does not command loyalty?
If you blame Tinubu for the problems in LP that made him leave, then why did he leave APGA and PDP when Tinubu was not in power?.
How many of the people he supported after the 2023 elections have won any of their elections, NONE!!!. he is a leader who is only good at fighting for himself.
This man was a governor for 8 solid years and what did he achieve (please don't tell me he returned schools to missionaries), where is Anambra today? Did he turn the state to Dubai like you guys try to paint, after all he also installed his successor (Obiano) just like other governors, but they fell out less than a year after he left office.
That means he is a poor judge of character or he is a bad team player
16:27, I applaud your efforts to educate with facts, your fellow country people. I however feel it's too late. Just like the Buharideens, they don't reason and have an aversion for facts. This kind of mental stronghold will exhaust itself when Obi finally joins APC thinking people like Hope and Umahi will leave it for him since Wike, Amaechi and others are already baring fangs.
DeleteThe Author is completely correct on his assertions , with one correction tho: it's ' Elections All Across The World..', not only in Nigeria. Barack Obama pre-2009 was a very capable and viable candidate but it was only when the momentum presented him as a candidate that had the potential TO WIN, that the party started taking him seriously.
ReplyDeletePeter Obi is a self indulged, overly garrulous individual with an inflated sense of his influence. He also doesn't understand the dynamics of Nigerian politics, surprisingly. Aside from the systematic issues, there's the need for a unifying candidate with regional appeal. His appeal last time was a revolt against the system/govt, which he didn't capitalise on. Now, it'll be about politics and with that, theregional factor will be a forefront issue and Obi by his rhetoric isn't helping his cause.
As it stands now, Wike might even have a better chance at the throne than him at this stage.
He is going against a fellow southern candidate and he is still talking instead of building a coordinated network.
Let's see how it goes sha.
Time will prove who is right or wrong, for those who will come to vituperate under this post.
I don't vote, I careless for the branded and rebranded criminals but it is what it is.
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Even McCain and Browne were passed over as it wasn't their moment. Those who seized the moment without momentum spent a few months before a vote of no confidence was looming.
DeleteWhen they said all that Obidients know how to do is to insult anyone that they felt is speaking against their man is to throw heap of insults on them I thought they were lying but I can see that it's not a lie but the absolute truth. May God help una
ReplyDeleteI can't believe a party that feels the are alpha and the people's choice will stoop low to buy laptops,recruit youths just to sing their praises and attach others who feels otherwise.
ReplyDeleteWe are all learning in this country. Life is true by turn.
You guys are a joke. So anyone that contradicts your view is a laptop recruit? I asked a question the last time: what are his antecedents??
DeleteVote whom you want but not as a lapdog with rose coloured glasses... Have realistic expectations
As an Obidient, it pains me to admit I partly agree with the writer’s core point. Around Obi’s candidature, there are always two conversations: one is emotional, the other is strategic.
ReplyDeleteThe emotional one is simple. Many Nigerians projected their frustration onto Peter Obi in 2023. He became a vessel for anger about hardship, insecurity and broken trust. When hope attaches itself to one person, criticism often comes with that feeling of betrayal. That explains the insults online whenever his name is mentioned, either for or against as exemplified in the comments - the divide is always there. But it is a healthy one, in defence of identity, not argument.
The strategic conversation is harder. Nigerian presidential politics or any other politics for that matter, is not a purity contest. We are too enmeshed in the mud as a people not to dine with the pigs. That's why it is a coalition of mathematics, elite bargaining, party machinery and voter mobilisation across regions. Moral positioning alone does not win that system. Nor does constant party migration build institutional depth. Movements without structure fade. Parties without a consolidation fracture.
Does that mean I dislike the incumbent? Far from it. Even as a woman, I am a firm admirer of his political sagacity - a disciple of his strategies. But the criticism, stripped of its tone, is asking a fair question: has Obi converted popular sentiment into durable political architecture? Sustained grassroots structures, disciplined alliances, and internal party control matter more than online enthusiasm.
At the same time, advice that he should simply “roll with the pigs” ignores a cultural shift. A significant bloc of younger voters rejects transactional politics, while accepting transactional gifts. If he abandons that distinction, he loses his base.
But if the opposition vote hadn’t been split between a probable godfather, disgruntled aspirants, political decoys, and the revered probable, the story might have been different - setting aside, of course, the systemic manipulations that undermined transparency.
What is an election without betrayals, sellouts, and those who should know better compromising the process? Just like Awolowo, Falae, and their likes, the best minds rarely align with the Ides of March. That’s because, in a polity that fears 'true' change, the most potent weapon remains amoral strategy.
The path, if there is one, is 'balance'. Build structure without losing moral clarity. Form strategic alliances without appearing captured. Strengthen one platform instead of hopping between many.
Hope alone is not a strategy. But a strategy without credibility is empty. In Nigeria, both must exist together or neither survives - and that’s why Obi may fail yet again.
Ebony Oge,
DeleteThank you for this.
I totally enjoyed reading your comment. The cerebrally weak won't.
Excellent commentary @Ebony (Lawd, am in love 😁).
Delete'The path, if there is one, is 'balance'. Build structure without losing moral clarity. Form strategic alliances without appearing captured'. .. This summarises what most had expected of him, regardless of if they're his core supporters or not. I don't think Petr Obi has realised that he, as an individual, isn't the who but the what of expectations..the chosen symbol (albeit flawed) of national desire for good governance.
He needs to realise what he is and stop dwelling on who he is.
The incumbent and his ally(ies) e.g. Wike are some of the most brilliant, most prolific politicians that are generational finds. Look at the political manoeuvring both locally and internationally and you'll realise, Obi, if he picks the ticket, is in for an uphill battle...and so far, he hasn't shown that he has either the ability nor capacity to do so.
Didn't bother to read..If you want to trend just mention Obi and accompany it with cock and bull stories.
ReplyDeleteObi a big name. God has blessed you and no man can curse.
Gbam
DeleteObi that they are using his name to trend cannot be president but the people using his name to trend will be president before him.
DeleteHmmm
ReplyDeleteI put sentiments aside and read it all and I am afraid he may be right. Politics is a dirty game and our dear Peter is not playing his cards right, there are powers that be, it's not by chochocho or social media rants.
I also read his take on Atiku and I heartily agree.
I really appreciate the author's faith to believe that an ignorant mob fired on by paranoid persecutory group delusions can be reasoned with. If you want to laugh, just read their responses to the Abuja municipal council elections and you'll understand you're watching a live experiment.
ReplyDeleteThese are the people who wanted SUBSIDY REMOVAL ON DAY ONE and they are acting like bushbabies after getting their wish. Imagine "labor" pushing for such and expecting not to labor.
3 good years and no promised well dug. No party he can control formed. Even to join after everything was set, delay , political defeat and denial before demanding igbo presidency months after depositing his CV. Who does that? 😂
Lol, after you people have frustrated his ambitions because you know that any positive impact from him posses as a threat.
DeleteSo if Atiku is not fit and Obi is not fit, who is fit to rule in 2027? Tinubu?
ReplyDeleteThey can't even support their candidate with their full chest. Always going anonymous to make noise. Obi is giving them heart attack on a regular. Man like Peter Obi🤩
ReplyDeleteI don't blame anyone. As your pay masters have refused to create employment for youths. What more than to buy laptops and give their recruits a mandate to silence and attack anything that concerns Obi.
Make sure what you are paid is worth the stress because it's not easy to defend nonsense
In all sincerity, this is not about who I support and who I do not support. All I see here is someone who came to display his writing prowess, forgetting that writing skills goes hand-in-hand with intelligence. Unfortunately, many people mistake empty writing prowess like this for words of wisdom .No single wisdom in this whole gibberish, only grammar.
ReplyDeleteObi is all about himself blabla bla,.. who should it be about before? Una sure say this person is not on some hard drugs?