@PeterObi Very presidential!
One thing stands PO out, he will be accountable to Nigerians. He is that kind of man that will come out to explain every of his actions to the common man.
Beyond Football: The Match for a Better Nigeria
This weekend, Europe comes alive again with football. Millions of Nigerian youths will be glued to television screens, streaming matches, debating tactics, celebrating victories, and admiring the organisation, discipline, and excellence that make European football the envy of the world. But here is a question worth asking: Why can’t Nigerian football be just as good?
The answer is not a lack of talent. Nigeria has produced world-class footballers who have excelled in Europe because they found systems that reward merit, invest in infrastructure, ensure security, and are governed with competence and accountability. Great football does not exist in isolation. It grows where there is good governance.
The stadiums, academies, transport systems, healthcare, security, electricity, and institutions that support football are products of leaders who make the right choices and citizens who insist on accountability. Nigeria has the talent. What we have lacked is leadership that creates an enabling environment for that talent to flourish.
As I have decided, in the next 150 days, to engage Nigerian youths wherever they gather—in town halls, campuses, online spaces, and even football communities—my message is simple: The future you admire in Europe can be built in Nigeria. But it starts with your vote.
Imagine a Nigeria where our local league is competitive, our stadiums are full every weekend, our clubs attract sponsorship, our coaches receive proper training, and young footballers no longer see emigration as their only path to success.
Nigeria will not emerge through wishful thinking. It will emerge when young Nigerians decide that elections matter as much as football matches. Every goal scored in Europe is a reminder that excellence is possible. Every well-managed league is proof that systems work when honest leadership is in place.
The 2027 presidential election is therefore more than a political contest. It is an opportunity for Nigerian youths to choose the kind of country they want—a nation that exports talent because it is respected, not because its citizens are escaping failed governance.
Cheer for Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, PSG, Inter, AC Milan, or any club you support. Enjoy every match. But when the final whistle blows, remember that the greatest match awaiting Nigerian youths is not in Europe. It is in Nigeria.
It is the match for good governance. It is the match for jobs, security, education, sports development, and national renewal. And unlike football, where only twenty-two players are on the pitch, every Nigerian youth has a place in this match.
Stand up. Mobilise. Vote. Defend your vote.
If Nigerian youths can passionately follow European football every weekend, they can also passionately build a Nigeria where our own football—and our nation—becomes a source of pride.
The journey towards better Nigerian football begins with the path to good governance. And the path to good governance begins with the decision of Nigerian youths to stand up and be counted in 2027.
Every weekend, starting today, I will come to you with a reminder of January 16, 2027, and our future. We can create world-class standards right here at home.
It’s in your hands, and that new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
@ayojseven@0lisa_@Morris_Monye Cherry piking is a sign of low intelligence. You left the greater part of what you quoted and took the part that serves your opinion. You can take a gun and go find the girl and kill her because she is a terrorist. Nonsense
@ayojseven@0lisa_@Morris_Monye “Even in the corporate environment” that tells a lot, you may have perhaps never had a corporate life. I bet if that young woman is on social media, she might have entered depression by now seeing all your slurs and denigrating comments
@0lisa_@ayojseven@Morris_Monye I really wonder why they are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Nigerians have this penchant for blowing little things out of proportion. So much noise over someone being called by his name! She is professional right even at that.
If you all crucify your thieving politicians the way you are sharing the carcasses of this young woman who may have perhaps just made an honest mistake, Nigeria would have been better by nau. Always devouring the defenseless.
When I said pastors should consider investing more of their enormous resources into businesses, industries and ventures that create jobs, produce goods and strengthen the economy instead of endlessly building bigger and bigger church structures, some people attacked me.
Now look at this.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is reportedly unveiling electric vehicles under the Falcon, Passion and OG series, moving beyond preaching into actual productive enterprise.
THIS is the kind of growth I was talking about.
A church building can accommodate worshippers.
A factory can employ engineers, technicians, designers, mechanics, marketers, drivers, accountants and hundreds of other people.
A massive auditorium may inspire people for three hours on Sunday.
A successful manufacturing company can put food on people’s tables for decades.
There is nothing wrong with building churches. But let’s stop pretending that every additional billion poured into another gigantic auditorium has the same economic impact as a billion invested into manufacturing, technology, agriculture, energy or transportation.
If religious organisations command enormous financial resources, imagine what Nigeria would look like if more of that capital was deliberately channelled into productive investments that create jobs, build industries and manufacture things Nigerians currently import.
This is not an attack on Christianity.
It is an argument for economic Christianity that produces something beyond another building.
And honestly, some of you owe me an apology.
You called the idea an attack on pastors.
I was talking about capital allocation.
There is a difference.
Nigeria doesn’t only need more people praying for prosperity.
We need more people with capital actually building the prosperity.