Given that terrorists in this country are routinely “rehabilitated” and “reintegrated” back into society, I am just wondering when Nnamdi Kanu’s own rehabilitation will start.
Abi a “terrorist” from alaigbo does not deserve to be rehabilitated and reintegrated back into society?
People keep asking why I am releasing statements on behalf of the Obidient Movement using the Obidient Conscience letterhead.
Well, the question you should ask yourself is this: does every human being have a conscience? And if we do, what exactly does that conscience do?
Obviously, conscience is there to remind us, question us, and sometimes judge us when we are doing wrong.
So I have taken it upon myself to act as the conscience of the movement. To remind the movement when it is derailing. To judge it when it goes quiet. To call it back when it starts forgetting what gave it power in the first place.
The Obidient Movement was born out of activism. It is supposed to be a pressure group. It is supposed to keep pressure on politicians and make sure they are never comfortable while Nigerians are suffering.
But that is not happening.
If it was happening, APC would not be this confidently incompetent. The country cannot be burning while the government in power and the opposition remain this quiet, relaxed, and comfortable.
So here is what I am doing.
Whenever an incident of incompetence, injustice, insecurity, corruption, political betrayal, or national failure happens in Nigeria, whether within the opposition or in the country generally, I will wait to see if the appointed leaders of the movement will do the needful and release a proper pressure statement addressing the situation.
If they do not, I will do the work of the conscience and release that statement on behalf of the movement.
And if anyone has a problem with me doing that, their anger is misplaced. They should direct that energy to the people appointed, not voted, into leadership positions in the movement. Encourage them to start acting proactively. Encourage them to stop waiting until Obidients are forced into defensive mode before they speak.
A serious pressure group should not always be reacting after the damage has been done. It should be setting the agenda. It should be forcing the government and its supporters onto the defensive. When a major incident happens and the movement releases a strong statement within hours, the government is forced to respond, explain, deny, defend, or at least feel the pressure.
That is how a pressure group movements work.
Statements are not useless. They shape narratives. They document failure. They amplify victims. They help the world see and hear what is happening. They make silence difficult. They make propaganda harder. They put pressure where pressure is needed. And It doesn’t take four market days to write a statement. A good statement takes less than two hours to write and edit.
So why is the biggest pressure group in the country this quiet?
Why is Nigeria burning while the movement that should be shaking tables is waiting, watching, and whispering?
I will keep doing this until they wake up and earn the movement the respect it deserves.
If bad government is comfortable, then the people are failing in their duty.
Greetings from the Shrine of Thoughts 💭
Karigwe
Lol, I can’t stop laughing at this irony.
You are paying Elon Musk over 70k a year for blue tick, but your mind did not tell you that your own subscription money could also be part of what Elon is using to sponsor the same protests, according to your own logic.
You know why your mind no go there?
Because blue tick dey give you small money, and you cannot afford to invest in SpaceX.
SpaceX investors are “duped,” but paying for blue tick subscription is activism? Please stop playing.
If Elon is the sponsor of everything, then you too are contributing to the same Elon machine you are condemning.
You people have reduced pan-africanism to the lowest and biggest laughing stock in the history of activism.
If this was how the civil rights movement was carried out, black people in the USA might still be in chains today.
So now it is Elon Musk sponsoring the protests in Belfast and the UK, not the Sudanese guy who thought it was okay to attempt to behead another human being in public?
Or are you people in support of what the Sudanese guy did?
What you have succeeded in doing is turning pan-africanism into a defence team for an islamic agenda. This post shows clearly that you do not care about the attack that caused the protest. That is why you are desperate to shift the whole narrative to “Elon did it.”
And of course, you will not tell your followers that there was also a massive anti-racism rally in Belfast, where thousands came out against racism and anti-immigrant violence after the attack. Maybe it was Dangote sponsored that one ?
If you want to criticise Elon for amplifying far-right ideology, do that. But please do not insult people who are rightfully enraged by a despicable and senseless attack. Do not spit in their faces because you are too dishonest to admit what triggered the anger.
And if you do not know about something, instead of displaying your föòlishnèss and giving racist people more talking points, maybe sit down and research what actually happened.
People saw what happened. People got angry, including members of the black community in Belfast. Then people also came out against racism and anti-immigrant violence.
So stop insulting everyone’s intelligence.
Fcuk!!! 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
PRESS STATEMENT
OBIDIENT MOVEMENT CONDEMNS THE REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION OF 744 TERRORISTS INTO NIGERIAN SOCIETY
The Obidient Movement condemns in the strongest possible terms the rehabilitation and planned reintegration of 744 so-called repentant terrorists into Nigerian society under Operation Safe Corridor.
A country where children are kidnapped from schools, teachers are killed in captivity, farmers are slaughtered on their farms, communities are taken over by terrorists, and even retired army generals are not safe has no moral right to start pampering terrorists in the name of rehabilitation. The death of retired Major General Rabe Abubakar in captivity should shame every person in this government. If a retired army general, a man who served this country at the highest level of military communication, can be abducted and die in captivity, what exactly is the safety of the ordinary Nigerian?
As if that was not enough, at least 17 farmers were killed and 13 others injured in Goron Namaye, Maradun, Zamfara, while they were working on their farms. So farmers cannot farm. Children cannot go to school. Teachers cannot teach. Citizens cannot travel. Retired army generals cannot live safely. Yet the same government that cannot protect the living is rehabilitating and preparing to release terrorists back into society. What kind of wicked national arrangement is this?
What kind of country rewards terror and abandons victims? What kind of government rehabilitates terrorists while widows of fallen soldiers are still crying? What kind of leadership trains murderers in skills while many victims of their violence are left with trauma, poverty, displacement, and graves? What message is this government sending to the soldiers still fighting in the bush? What message are they sending to the families of murdered soldiers? What message are they sending to parents whose children are still in captivity? What message are they sending to communities destroyed by these same monsters?
You cannot bury soldiers and rehabilitate terrorists. You cannot mourn generals and pamper the enemies of the state. You cannot claim to be fighting insecurity while recycling the very people who helped create it. This policy is a slap on every victim of terrorism in Nigeria. It is a slap on every soldier who died defending this country. It is a slap on every parent who has lost a child, every community that has been displaced, every woman violated, every teacher killed, every farmer slaughtered, and every citizen living under fear.
The government owes Nigerians answers. Who are these 744 people? What exactly did they do? Who did they kill? Which communities did they attack? How were they vetted? Who is monitoring them? Where are they being sent? What guarantee exists that they will not return to terrorism? That they swore on the quran? The same quran they claim to quote while carrying out terrorism? The same quran they hide behind while killing, kidnapping, burning communities, and destroying innocent lives? Nigeria must stop treating religious performance as national security strategy.
Why are the names of these people hidden from the public while innocent Nigerians are expected to accept them back into society? A government that cannot protect citizens has no business asking citizens to trust its terrorist rehabilitation experiment. This country has seen too much blood to be playing with national security like this.
If one of these so-called repentant terrorists returns to violence, who will take responsibility? If one of them joins another cell, who will answer? If one of them uses the training received from government to strengthen criminal networks, who will be held accountable? Nigeria cannot continue to reward violence and punish innocence.
The same government that cannot properly compensate victims is rehabilitating terrorists. The same government that cannot equip soldiers properly is training terrorists. The same government that cannot secure schools is preparing to return terrorists into communities. The same government that cannot rescue abducted children is asking Nigerians to accept the reintegration of people linked to terror. The same government that cannot stop terrorists from slaughtering farmers on their own farmland is playing forgiveness politics with the same violence destroying food security.
This is the height of irresponsibility. No serious country treats terrorism like a youth empowerment programme. No serious nation takes people who helped destroy communities, gives them training, hides their identities, and expects traumatised citizens to clap. Peace without justice is nonsense. Rehabilitation without accountability is danger. Reintegration without transparency is reckless.
The Obidient Movement demands the immediate suspension of this reintegration process until Nigerians are given full transparency. We demand full disclosure of the vetting process. We demand independent monitoring of every person released under Operation Safe Corridor. We demand proper justice and compensation for victims before any government thinks of pampering perpetrators. We demand that soldiers, victims, displaced communities, farmers, and families of the dead be prioritised above terrorists. We demand a national security policy that protects innocent Nigerians, not one that rewards those who made the country bleed.
A country where army generals can die in captivity should not be forgiving terrorists. A country where children are still in the bush with their captors should not be graduating terrorists. A country where teachers are killed and beheaded should not be celebrating terrorist rehabilitation. A country where farmers are slaughtered on their farms should not be reintegrating terrorists. A country where citizens cannot travel safely should not be releasing hundreds of so-called repentant terrorists into society.
Nigeria cannot heal by embracing the hands that are choking it. Enough of this madness. Protect citizens. Honour the fallen. Compensate victims. Secure communities. Stop pampering terrorists.
Karigwe
Prophet of Thoughts
For and on behalf of Obidients, since the leadership of the Movement is sleeping.
Tinubu’s public speeches show symptoms of what psychology describes as word salad: broken thought flow, incoherent sentences, and words thrown together without clear meaning.
From observation, one cannot write off the possibility of a deeper cognitive problem affecting the man who muscled himself into the highest office in our country.
PRESS STATEMENT
DEMOCRACY DAY WITHOUT DEMOCRACY: OBIDIENT MOVEMENT CONDEMNS APC’S DESTRUCTION OF NIGERIA’S DEMOCRACY AND CALLS OUT THE SILENCE OF THE OPPOSITION
On this so-called Democracy Day, the Obidient Movement is compelled to speak because silence in the face of national decay is betrayal.
This statement has become necessary because the leadership of the movement has done nothing at a time when Nigerians need a clear, fearless, and principled voice. When the people are hurting, when democracy is being buried in broad daylight, and when those who should speak are choosing comfort over courage, someone must say what needs to be said.
For the avoidance of doubt, Nigeria has no real Democracy Day to celebrate under APC. What we have is a national ritual of hypocrisy where those who have destroyed democratic values gather to praise democracy in public while strangling it in practice.
Since 2015, APC has not strengthened Nigeria’s democracy. APC has wounded it, mocked it, manipulated it, and dragged it through the mud. From electoral intimidation to institutional compromise, from state capture to judicial controversy, from attacks on dissent to the weaponisation of poverty, APC has turned democracy into a private tool for power retention.
A party that has supervised worsening insecurity, mass suffering, electoral distrust, economic hardship, political intimidation, and public hopelessness has no moral right to stand before Nigerians and celebrate Democracy Day.
Democracy is not a speech.
Democracy is not a parade.
Democracy is not a state banquet.
Democracy is not politicians wearing fine clothes and reading prepared lies to hungry citizens.
Democracy means the people can vote freely, speak freely, live safely, eat decently, work with dignity, and trust that institutions serve them, not the ruling party. Under APC, all these have been attacked.
What exactly is APC celebrating?
Are they celebrating the children kidnapped from their schools and forced into the bush with criminals?
Are they celebrating the children still in the bush with their captors while their parents cry and beg for their return?
Are they celebrating the parents who sleep and wake up not knowing whether their children will return alive?
Are they celebrating the teacher killed in captivity?
Are they celebrating the teacher who was beheaded while the horror was recorded and pushed into public view?
Are they celebrating the suspension of a democratically elected governor, his deputy, and elected lawmakers for six months while democracy was put on hold in Rivers State?
Are they celebrating communities taken over by bandits?
Are they celebrating citizens kidnapped on farms, roads, schools, and homes?
Are they celebrating hunger, unemployment, inflation, and despair?
Are they celebrating elections that leave millions of Nigerians feeling robbed, mocked, and abandoned?
A government that cannot protect children has no business celebrating democracy. A government that cannot secure schools has no moral right to lecture Nigerians about freedom. A government under which citizens are being kidnapped, killed, displaced, and impoverished cannot claim to be defending democracy.
APC has reduced democracy to survival politics. Nigerians are no longer living under a true people-centred democracy. They are enduring a system where power protects itself while the people are left to bleed.
June 12 was supposed to symbolise the struggle of the people against tyranny, stolen mandates, and political oppression. APC has turned it into an annual insult. They mention June 12 with their mouths while practising the very things June 12 was meant to reject.
You cannot celebrate June 12 while weakening the will of the people.
You cannot celebrate democracy while citizens are afraid of elections.
You cannot celebrate democracy while dissent is treated like rebellion.
You cannot celebrate democracy while hunger is being used to humble the masses.
You cannot celebrate democracy while insecurity is swallowing the country.
Nigeria is not a democracy simply because politicians hold elections. Democracy is not just voting. Democracy is accountability, legitimacy, transparency, security, justice, and respect for the people’s will.
By that standard, APC has failed.
We also call out the NDC and other opposition platforms that claim to be preparing to rescue Nigeria.
When exactly will the NDC start doing opposition?
When will NDC stop fighting opposition within opposition and face the real enemy of the Nigerian people?
When will they start speaking loudly about insecurity, hunger, abducted children, the cost of living, unemployment, electoral reform, police failure, corruption, and the collapse of public trust?
Or is NDC still too busy managing internal ego, personal entitlement, aspirant grievances, candidate imposition allegations, and power struggles to remember that Nigeria is burning?
Opposition is not just collecting politicians and waiting for election season. Opposition is not just issuing soft statements and avoiding hard truths. Opposition is not hiding when citizens need a voice. Opposition means confronting the ruling party with facts, courage, and consistency.
If NDC wants Nigerians to take it seriously, it must stop behaving like an opposition party that is more interested in fighting Obidients than fighting APC.
The children in captivity do not care about your internal superiority contest.
Hungry Nigerians do not care who owns the party.
Kidnapped citizens do not care who built the structure.
Parents crying for their children do not care about political ego.
Nigerians want leadership. Nigerians want courage. Nigerians want a serious opposition that can look APC in the face and call failure by its name.
The Obidient Movement must never become silent in the face of this national collapse. We were not born to clap for politicians. We were not built to massage egos. We were not mobilised to become decoration for any party.
We are citizens first.
We are Nigerians first.
We are a movement of conscience, justice, competence, accountability, and people-centred politics.
On this Democracy Day, we reject APC’s fake celebration of a democracy it has helped destroy.
We reject the normalisation of insecurity.
We reject the politics of silence.
We reject opposition that is afraid to oppose.
We reject any political party that wants Obidient energy without respecting the pain, intelligence, and expectations of the Nigerian people.
Nigeria does not need another round of empty speeches. Nigeria needs rescue. Nigeria needs leadership. Nigeria needs security. Nigeria needs credible elections. Nigeria needs institutions that work. Nigeria needs leaders who understand that power belongs to the people, not to political landlords.
APC has failed Nigeria.
The opposition must wake up.
The Obidient Movement must speak.
And Nigerians must never again allow those who destroyed democracy to stand on Democracy Day and pretend to be its defenders.
Karigwe
Prophet of Thoughts
For and on behalf of Obidients, since the leadership of the Movement is sleeping.
PRESS STATEMENT
OBIDIENT MOVEMENT SUSPENDS TOP TO BOTTOM CAMPAIGN AND DECLARES OPERATION NO WORK, NO VOTE
The Obidient Movement has taken note of the repeated disregard, disrespect, and political injustice shown to its members by political parties and politicians who want to benefit from its strength, credibility, structure, reach, and public goodwill.
We have also taken note of the recent statement credited to Senator Seriake Dickson, where he reportedly told Obidients not to disparage him or his party, and claimed that NDC is doing Peter Obi and Obidients a favour by granting them its platform.
We have heard him clearly.
We also noticed the troubling tone of ownership in that interview. The possessive and self-important language made NDC sound less like a democratic party set up to rescue Nigerians and more like the personal property of one man. If NDC was truly set up to save Nigerians, then it must be a party for Nigerians, not a private estate where citizens are expected to kneel and thank one man for political access. Political parties are supposed to belong to the people, their members, and the public interest, not to one man or a small circle of political landlords.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Obidient Movement is not owned by any political party. We are not political slaves. We are not campaign tools. We are not a crowd to be summoned during election season and ignored when decisions are being made.
If NDC believes it is doing Obidients a favour, then we will no longer force our favour on NDC.
Since we have been rudely reminded that we do not own the party, and since we are being told that nobody is doing NDC any favour, it is time for us to withdraw automatic political charity and move into non-partisan, people-centred politics.
We must also speak for the aspirants and ordinary members who reportedly went through primaries in good faith, spent money, mobilised supporters, earned their place, and were later allegedly cheated, replaced, or pushed aside. If a party cannot protect fairness inside its own house, it has no moral right to preach justice to Nigerians. People who worked for their mandate must not be sacrificed for backroom deals and political convenience.
In view of recent events, and the continued failure of party leaderships to treat the movement with the respect it deserves, we hereby suspend the Top to Bottom campaign approach.
Going forward, every candidate must stand on their own record, competence, character, capacity, and public credibility.
Whether a candidate is in NDC, ADC, PDP, Labour Party, or any other political platform, they must campaign on issues. They must face the people. They must explain what they have done, what they can do, and why Nigerians should trust them with power.
Peter Obi has shown the standard. He campaigns on issues. He speaks to governance, economy, education, security, production, accountability, and the welfare of ordinary Nigerians. Any candidate who wants the support of the people must do the same.
No candidate will be allowed to ride on Obi’s wave while disrespecting the same movement that built and sustained that wave.
No more automatic support.
No more blind loyalty.
No more party-first politics.
No more “vote them because they are under our platform.”
From today, we are moving from Top to Bottom to Operation No Work, No Vote.
No work, no vote.
Nigerian politicians have shown repeatedly that many of them are on the same side when it comes to protecting their interests against the masses. They change parties, form alliances, recycle themselves, insult the people, and still expect the people to keep clapping. That era must end.
Our loyalty is to good governance, competence, integrity, justice, accountability, and the Nigerian people.
At the presidential level, our position remains clear. Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso are the only ticket we recognise for the national rescue mission.
Every other candidate, at every other level, must prove themselves.
They must show capacity.
They must show integrity.
They must show their work.
They must convince the people.
The Obidient Movement will no longer be used as political fuel by people who cannot respect the source of that energy.
Any candidate who wants Obidient votes must earn them.
They are not doing us a favour.
The people are the favour.
And anyone who wants the people’s support must respect the people first.
Karigwe
Prophet of Thoughts
For and on behalf of Obidients, since the leadership of the Movement is sleeping.
PRESS STATEMENT
OBIDIENT MOVEMENT REJECTS THE APPOINTMENT OF THEO ABU AGADA AND DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY FROM NDC LEADERSHIP AND TANKO YUNUSA
The attention of the Obidient Movement has been drawn to the appointment of Theo Abu Agada as Director of New Media and Strategic Communications by the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC.
We condemn this appointment in the strongest possible terms.
This appointment is not just insensitive. It is a direct insult to their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, the Obidient Movement, and the millions of Nigerians who have stood firmly behind a movement built on competence, character, justice, accountability, and people-centred politics.
A party that claims to value the Obidient Movement cannot turn around and appoint a man whose public record is filled with repeated attacks, insults, and open hostility towards their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Obidients. You cannot disrespect the largest support base within your political structure and still pretend you are building unity.
Theo Abu Agada has publicly described supporters of their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in insulting terms. He has questioned Peter Obi’s capacity, portrayed him as a threat to free speech, accused his supporters with reckless language, and repeatedly made statements that show clear contempt for the same movement NDC now expects to energise its public communication.
Even worse, he once claimed that Peter Obi had “unleashed his IPOB supporters on Nigerians.” That kind of statement goes beyond political disagreement. It is a dangerous attempt to link their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Obidients to IPOB, and by extension paint the movement with the brush of extremism and terrorism. No serious political party that respects Peter Obi or the Obidient Movement should reward such a person with a sensitive communications position.
Can NDC appoint someone who has publicly insulted and disparaged Rabiu Kwankwaso or the Kwankwasiyya Movement into a sensitive communications position and expect Kwankwasiyya supporters to clap for it? Can NDC reward someone who has repeatedly attacked Kwankwaso and still claim it respects his movement?
If the answer is no, then why does NDC think it can do this to their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the Obidient Movement?
The NDC leadership must explain how such a person passed through any serious political vetting process for a sensitive communications role. New Media and Strategic Communications is not a decoration. It is the public voice of a party. Appointing someone with a history of hostility towards their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the Obidient Movement into that office sends a very clear message, and the message is disrespect.
This also raises serious questions about the role and effectiveness of Tanko Yunusa as the leader of the Obidient Movement.
What exactly is Tanko doing?
In the Labour Party, he was always seen around the leadership, taking pictures and standing close to Peter Obi, yet the same Labour Party repeatedly disrespected Peter Obi and the movement he was supposed to represent.
In ADC, the same pattern repeated itself. The Obidient Movement was treated with disregard, and its value was undermined.
Now in NDC, the same thing is happening again. The party leadership continues to disregard the Obidient Movement, even though Obidients remain the largest, loudest, and most active stakeholder group in this political alignment. That disregard has now reached their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, directly through the appointment of someone whose public record shows open hostility towards him.
So we ask again: what exactly is Tanko doing?
Is he there to defend the movement, or to take pictures?
Is he there to protect Peter Obi’s political leverage, or to stand in rooms like a mannequin?
Is he there to represent Obidients, or to lock comment sections whenever people ask uncomfortable questions?
Tanko Yunusa must answer a simple question: what the hell is he doing?
The Obidient Movement cannot continue to be treated as a crowd for rallies, online engagement, and political optics, while those who openly insult the movement are put in strategic positions where they will continue the insults.
We demand the following:
1. The immediate reversal of Theo Abu Agada’s appointment.
2. A public explanation from the NDC leadership on how this appointment was approved.
3. A formal apology to their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the Obidient Movement.
4. A clear commitment from NDC that no individual with a public record of hostility towards Peter Obi or the Obidient Movement will be placed in any sensitive strategic communication role.
5. A full explanation from Tanko Yunusa on what he is doing as leader of the Obidient Movement and why this pattern of disrespect keeps repeating itself under his watch.
The Obidient Movement is not a spare tyre. We are not political furniture. We are not a movement to be used when convenient and disrespected when power is being shared.
If NDC wants the energy, credibility, reach, and sacrifice of Obidients, then it must treat the movement with respect.
Anything short of that is unacceptable.
Karigwe
Prophet of Thoughts
For and on behalf of Obidients, since the leadership of the Movement is sleeping.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. (Niemöller, 1946)
Silence is not neutrality, silence is permission. Evil persist because of the silence and neutrality of good people.