20 years ago, i left my country, my culture, my food, and family to embark on a journey that started with the release of my very first body of music! So many of you were a part of my life and career since the very beginning, and some of you have joined the adventure along the way. I’m forever grateful to all of you. Each of you played a very crucial role in where this journey has taken me thus far!
I just wanted to take this moment to say thank you! Thank you for the greatest first 20 years ever! 20 years of the most loyal, die-hard fans that don’t play about me whatsoever, 20 years of hard work and hardworking teams around me, 20 years of lessons, 20 years of unforgettable experiences and accomplishments, 20 years of my family being my number one support system, and to all the people who said yes to me and gave me a chance before it was “cool” to (Execs, DJ’s, writers, producers, dancers, choreographers, directors, fashion designers, photographers, glam, journalists, brands, mentors, etc etc) 20 years worth of thanks to you!! I thank God, He’s been very generous to me and the Glory belongs to Him! #R20 🙏🏿⚓️
The survival of the Obidient Movement will depend on what Peter Obi is going to do in the next six months. How he is able to navigate all of those boobytraps set by Bola, INEC & the Judiciary, will determine his chances.
From where I stand? Things aren’t looking great
In the absence of Electoral Reform & electronic transmission of results? We should expect something worst than 2023. But I’m a sucker for lost causes; how underdog gets to win.
Whatever happens, Peter Obi will remain a Revolutionary masquerading as politician. It’s a Revolution of the Mind & it’s liberating. He unleashed something exciting & fresh, something that reinvigorated our hopes.
It’s animated, you can almost touch it.
It filtered in & sort of remained in the air.
When you look closely, you get the sense of THE BIGGER PICTURE. This is not for small minds, Agbados should eat before they can grasp. The trees Obi had planted are beginning to sprout. Twenty years from now, they will have the full bloom of battle-tested leaders.
Nigeria will benefit immensely from this Revolution of the Mind. It's going to be total, from the ground up. The Establishment are only mounting their last resistance. Theirs’ is the last kick of dying horses. But there is a catch!
Obidient is a standalone concept that can exist independent of Peter. We are eternal, yet ethereal. What he started will last out the ages.
We are young, we’ll be here long after our principal is gone. THE BIGGER PICTURE is some sort of consolation; our victory is longevity. Nigeria has changed, & generally for the worse. This is not the Nigeria of our dream.
But things are changing, & everyone should change with it. Peter Obi is something quite unexpected. He burst into the scene & swept away the old guards. And despite his popularity, the man is quite restrained.
Sometimes I wish he could lose some of those his moral compass. To do what must be done? A man will have to be reborn. There is no morality in Nigeria, at least in politics.
Morals are subjecitve. Sometimes we act based on the cards laid before us. It takes no specific amount of time for a man to lose his moral values. Pray your time won't come. Obidients are young, we still have the privilege of choices.
I pray we make the right ones. We never needed a pity party. None of us is a chicken. We were born by men with two balls between those legs. Somehow? We’ve been cooped up in one place for so long. But we can’t just be in one place.
We are no couch potato. Some of us cannot just sit idly doing nothing. The Obidients are full of energy, we have to be out there fixing things. We had to be more than we are (in order to survive). We had to be part men & part beasts.
Whatever mistakes we made in the past? That was the beast. Now we have to be men in order to fix it. Pretty much all we do is guided by love for country. We are Patriots, we have a strange way of showing it. I apologize if our methods are different. None of us are delicate flower.
We are tougher than you think. And if we turn out to be the scandal of the town? No one will blame us. Our pride is at stake. Our lives are at stake. Country is at stake. We stake everything for our survival. We are here to guarantee Nigeria’s right to change. We found courage, Peter gave back to us, our long-lost voices.
Suddenly, people began to ask, "where is this courage coming from?” Now Nigerians want to know how the story will end? Things are still in motion that cannot be done. A few good men will have to fight so that others may live.
Thanks to Peter for raising the next generation. He didn’t raise politicians, he raised the precise demography that will change Nigeria for good.
Now we are coming out of the woodwork, & it’s early days. Nigeria will reap immensely from what he has started. I’m all for THE BIGGER PICTURE. And I don’t expect small minds to understand the deeper meaning of what he started. But the future is ours; this is not the end! They are yet to hear the last from us!
Chidiebere Ibe
A skilled medical illustrator who's globally making waves by bringing Black illustrations to the medical field. Chidi noticed that the patients in medical diagrams are always depicted as White, so he decided to change the narrative.
Let's Retweet to celebrate him
@DARABIDDOGO @XiaomiNigeria Xiaomi is a quite a good phone. You won't be disappointed. Note that I DON'T work for them. I use the Redmi Note 10 Pro.
I gave them a try when they got featured on CNN comparing them to the Apple iPhone, & it's been good so far.
Enough is enough. This can’t go on.
The chaos in No10, the breakdown of Cabinet collective responsibility, the abandonment of the Ministerial code, the defence of impropriety & defiance of Parliament are all insults to the Conservatism I believe in and stand for:
The coordination with my illustrator (@Carrie0kee) was a challenge, as she was in Nigeria and I was in Switzerland, but we managed to bring the book I had in my head to paper and I am so proud of the way the it turned out. Watch the process:
https://t.co/XTstQx5Crv