@Wizarab10 Unfortunately, we have devalued these hidden disciplines that forge character and destiny. We are now busy chasing online validation for what should be built in silence, forgetting that great men are formed long before the world has a reason to applaud them.
His eyes have seen unspeakable bloodshed. His feet have grown weary from funeral after funeral — burying his own church members slaughtered by Fulani jihadists seizing ancestral lands and imposing mini-caliphates in villages south of Jos.
But Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo will not break. In the heart of Plateau State, central Nigeria, he stays to encourage the living and keep the faith alive.
There is something deeply powerful about a man whose character does not change when the political weather changes. People will talk. Opponents will question. Supporters will defend. Years later, new accusations will be dragged out and old records reopened.
But a man who has lived with a clear conscience does not need to manufacture innocence. He simply stands there and lets the records speak. Politics can distort stories, but it cannot erased what was actually done.
Sometimes, the responsibility that comes with making the right choice can become so heavy that you begin to question whether you made the wrong one.
The burden of bringing that decision to life can exhaust you, overwhelm you, and distort your perception to the point that you mistake the pain of the process for evidence that you chose wrongly.
But the weight you are carrying may not mean you made the wrong choice. It may simply be the cost of seeing the right one through.
Stay the course.
An average Nigerian can be handed the key to freedom and still choose the cage, because he has lived inside dysfunction for so long that he no longer has the imagination to recognise freedom.
Watch the next election.
They will fight over who controls the cage. Defend those who have kept them imprisoned for decades. Attack anyone who questions the cage.
Then go home convinced they exercised political freedom.
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A generation that has never experienced functioning institutions can mistake basic services for luxury. A generation that has never experienced economic dignity can mistake survival for prosperity. A generation that has never experienced genuine political accountability can mistake loyalty, patronage and personality for leadership.
You can put a man in a cage and he will understand that he is imprisoned. But keep him there long enough, and the cage becomes his entire conception of reality. Show him an open door and he may become suspicious of it. Tell him there is a world beyond the bars and he may defend the bars instead.
@disntr 2 Timothy 4:3-4
[3] For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, [4] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
[3] For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, [4] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
The scary part is not just that we are fucked. It’s that we have lived with it for so long that many of us no longer recognise what being free, functional, and prosperous should actually look like.
And when you lose the ability to recognise your own condition, you can’t make the political choices necessary to escape it. You defend the cage, fight anyone trying to open it, and eventually mistake the cage for home.
It's pathetic 😞
I can’t force my convictions on anyone!
But you see this Peter Obi’s presidency, if you are within my circle, I will force it on you.
But it’s not everyone that understands that we are fvcked.
You have to vote for Peter Obi.
Cheers 🥂