Imagine making Peter Obi’s loss, assuming he loses, the thing you look forward to, because I know with certainty that suffering Nigerians will win the elections through Peter Obi, a banter. That shows how much of a less empathetic and unpatriotic fellow you are.
Today at the airport, while trying to get our boarding passes to board our flight from Abuja to Lagos after our town hall meeting in Kaduna yesterday, two young ladies in their early 30s walked up to Peter Obi and requested to take a picture with him. He obliged, and I helped take the photo.
One of them came back after a while, looking so unsure, and asked if she could talk to Peter Obi about something. I asked if everything was okay. She said, “I just came back to tell Peter Obi that I don’t have a job and I need one desperately.”
I enquired about her qualifications and her area of expertise, and she said she’s into tech and specializes in product management. I asked further how long she had been in the field, and she said four years.
She has been looking for remote jobs, but it has been hard finding one. Being Nigerian at this time has not made it easy, as foreign companies do not trust Nigerians because the image of the country has been damaged, courtesy of our government.
She is a mother of two children from the North. I made her speak Peter Obi. He listened to her, asked that her number be taken and the conversation continued.
Because of how broken I felt, I said I’d reach out to people to help her with a job placement, as she said she was in dire need of one.
Yesterday, while in Kaduna, I had to pause and send some money to a friend who is married with three kids. “Esther, help me. My kids are hungry.”
This is the country where the majority of young people like yourself can’t boast of a well-paying job. They try to work remotely but can’t easily land a good job because our image before others has been destroyed. Young men like yourself are finding it difficult to settle down and live a responsible life. Citizens are not sure of their next meal.
Over 45,000 internally displaced persons are currently in Plateau. No food. No water. No security. Children are watching their parents being slaughtered on a daily basis. Mothers are carrying their dead babies, and cows have more value than human life.
But you’d rather downplay an entire election that can make or mar the nation and make it about how much it would “bang” if Peter were to lose this election.
And I ask myself, lose the election to whom? Tinubu? The same person who takes delight in the pain of the people he is governing?
Regardless of colour, race, gender, or party affiliation, humanity is the only thing that keeps the world sane.
I hope one day the cock won’t crow for your sake. In the end, you’re just a misled Nigerian, channeling your anger in the wrong direction.
It's like you people are mad bah?
Shey you've been advised to not engage antiObi tweets again.
There's nothing you want to tweet or quote or reply that you've not been saying since 2022.
Those tweets are paid for.
Stop contributing to their KPIs. Are you deaf?
The case is no longer whether Tinubu was involved in drug trafficking, but whether his drug trafficking files should be released to the public or not.
@inecnigeria should be ashamed of themselves!
Exactly.
No young Nigerian will see an elderly person and just call him by his name. It is highly unlikely that it happens.
What that girl did was an expression of the new culture she was taught in training school.
In her mind, she was trying to fit into the culture of her new place of work. Little did she know it was all performative.
If it is company policy to refer to people by their first name, why is the chairman above this policy?
I understand the cultural sentiments, but she’s doing exactly what HR promotes.
If he does not subscribe to it, then it should not be a company policy.
Whether we like it or not, this video has officially changed the culture across the entire organization.
If your organization doesn’t subscribe to the American-style first-name basis, then scrap it from your company policies and stop teaching it in training schools.
Because at this point, EDs, MDs, GMs, and even some managers will probably start expecting to be addressed as “Sir” or “Mr. XXX.”
You actually need to be mentored on development, and I will freely give you that lecture. There is something called ‘directed improvisation’. A developmental state must be directed from the center. That is what China did. That is what Korea did. That does not negate local improvisation. It creates coherence.
Obi is informed. You are not.