The basic issue with P.O. is the same issue I had until 2024 - he refuses to acknowledge that his platform is fundamentally anti-imperial. The idea of moving Africa's largest population "from consumption to production" is a fundamentally anti-imperialism idea.
The existence of Nigeria as a consumer-import-dependent, natural resource exporter that spends resource export revenues on imported finished goods without having an industrial base to manufacture its own, is not an accident of "poor leadership" - it is the direct goal of neo-colonialism.
When instead of manufacturing goods, Nigeria instead haemorrhages its natural resources and human talent, and only receives some insufficient USD resource rents in return, this ensured that Nigeria and its African contemporaries remain artificially poor, while people who live in places where for 6 months every year, the ground freezes solid and daily sunshine is only 5 hours, remain artificially wealthy.
That is the core of the Euro-American imperial system. The military branch of this imperial system is called NATO. The governance/policy arms are called IMF/World Bank. The economic arm is called WTO. The academic/social arms are the Foundations, NGOs, policy research institutes and universities. This is what P.O. is actually up against.
So if P.O. says he wants to "move Nigeria from consumption to production", it is the same thing as declaring war on Europe, its sugar daddy in Washington, and its spiritual leader in Tel-Aviv. And if you're going to do that, you need to be fully locked in, and you need to be prepared to lose everything of yours that is under the empire's control.
I finally realised this in June 2024, and that's why I quit my £40,000/year project management job in Newcastle, packed up all my shit, withdrew all my money, gave up my 5-year UK visa, and bought a 1-way ticket back to Accra. As I am now, if and when I end up in a position of power, there is zero leverage that any white man anywhere on earth can use to blackmail me into maintaining this imperial system. I don't have property in their countries. I don't have money in their banking systems. I don't have children in their schools and universities. The most they can do is ban me from their social media.
P.O. does not want to do the same. His children are comfortable and integrated pseudo-westerners. He has property in the UK. He has money in their banks. He enjoys that regular suite at the Hilton Paddington too much. He's trying to run on a revolutionary, anti-imperialist platform while pretending that he is a friend of the Western world who doesn't want to pick a fight with them.
The problem with this is that oyibo people don't play those games. These people murdered Patrice Lumumba over a speech. You might not see yourself as their enemy, but they DEFINITELY know on what side their bread is buttered, and they know that a Nigeria where ships berth everyday, offload consumer goods, and sail away only with natural resources or empty, is a Nigeria that remains strategically poor and profitable to their empire.
They KNOW that a Nigeria under Peter Obi where education and health are properly funded, where Chinese-inspired industrial policy is enacted, where railways and steel production move to the top of national priority, and where those ships eventually start sailing from Nigeria laden with manufactured goods for export to the world, is the Nigeria that will destroy their entire parasitic way of life.
And I'm sure P.O. knows this too, but he's invested in pretending that he can play both sides, the same way Patrice Lumumba wasted valuable time doing "I am not a Communist" and trying to play nice with the same people until they killed his ass, dissolved him in sulphuric acid, and kept his gold tooth as a souvenir.
That's why I've moved on from the Obidient thing. Both he and his supporters don't know what they want and I'm exhausted.
Even his Bible says "How long will you be limping between two opinions?"
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I spent 4 years paying my younger sister’s school fees. Every single kobo.
The day she graduated, she gave the acknowledgement speech and thanked everyone except me.
I sat in that hall and felt my soul leave my body 😭.
When she got admission, things were tight at home.
I had just started my first job.
I told our parents, "Don't worry. I’ll handle it." And I did.
Every semester. No breaks.
There were months I was eating 0-1-0 so her account wouldn't run dry.
I never told her. I didn't think I needed to.
Graduation day, she looked beautiful. The first graduate in our family.
I was prouder of her than I’ve ever been of myself.
Then she got the mic.
> She thanked God. (Fair).
> She thanked our parents. (Expected).
> She thanked her friends who kept her sane.
> She even thanked her HOD.
Then she sat down.
My mother looked at me. I smiled and looked away, but the clapping felt like it was happening in a different room.
I didn’t say anything that day. Or the week after.
But something in how I moved changed.
I stopped volunteering. Started waiting to be asked. Started noticing who actually noticed me.
People say, "Don’t give to be recognized." I agree to an extent.
But there is a thin line between not needing applause and being erased by the person you bled for.
That's not humility. That's invisibility.
We’re fine now. I brought it up six months later, calmly.
She cried, and said she was nervous and blanked.
Maybe. Maybe not 🤷
But I learned something either way.
Sacrifice without communication creates invisible resentment.
Tell people what you are carrying for them. Not to guilt trip them. But because silence makes martyrs, and martyrs make bitter people.
This same dynamic shows up in dating every day.
You’re playing the provider or the supporter in silence, while your partner thinks you're just an oil money that never runs dry.
Stop accepting the bare minimum of gratitude. If they don't see the sacrifice, they won't value the person making it.
Has someone ever made you feel invisible in a relationship after everything you did for them?
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If I were to start a private school, it would be a boys-only institution.
All teachers would be male. Most would come from military backgrounds, with preference given to those with special forces experience.
The structure would prioritize physical and practical development.
Each morning would begin with physical training. Boxing. Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Obstacle courses. Firearms training.
There would also be a strong emphasis on building. Shop classes. Hands-on work. The ability to construct something real.
Even for someone who becomes an IT engineer, knowing how to build a chair matters. Real-world construction develops thinking. It trains problem-solving in a way abstract learning does not.
Academic instruction would be concentrated.
No more than three hours per day at a desk. That is sufficient to meet curriculum requirements and maintain academic competence.
The rest of the day would be spent developing strength, discipline, and practical skill.
I think Africans need to adopt "Werey lafi nwo Werey" in a situation where injustice seems become normal. Had it been Senegalese didn't protest the daylight robbery, the referee would have called for the retake of the penalty and nothing would happen but he dares not!
The argument isn't just that Nigerians are passive—it’s that they have weaponized "Resilience" as a psychological trap.
In most parts of the world, resilience means the ability to recover from a blow.
In the Nigerian context, it has been mutated into the ability to absorb abuse indefinitely.
The critics of the walk-off are the same people who wait in 10-hour fuel queues without a murmur.
To them, the proper way to handle an unfair referee (or an unfair government) is to endure it until the final whistle and then complain in private.
There is a pathetic obsession with behaving well for an international audience that doesn't actually care.
The Moroccan team was rattled because someone finally refused to follow the script.
Nigerians hate that because it reminds them of the scripts they follow every day.
Nigeria is a nation built on legalisms rather than convictions.
We value the process of looking civilized over the result of being free.
A walk-off is uncivilized. A protest is disorderly.
Consequently, the only "acceptable" form of progress is one that is signed, sealed, and delivered by the very powers that are oppressing you.
The reason the potato can't understand rocket physics is that the potato’s entire existence is based on staying buried.
To a culture that views submission as a spiritual duty, defiance looks like madness.
The critics aren't actually upset that the team walked off; they are terrified of the precedent.
If a football team can decide the terms of their engagement, then perhaps the average citizen can too.
And that level of responsibility is a burden most would rather leave for God.
@elonmusk JK Rowling stands for children and women’s safety! 👏❤️
She’s hated because she knows what a man and a woman is and the differences between them.