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?"
@NigeriaStories Let me reduce the price of plates so people can buy more food. Full blown pre-nursery logic🙄
Bro, the decoder (plate) is not the problem; the subscriptions (food) are.
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The job is to let you know there is an open drain that needs to be closed or cleaned.
These Photos were taken 5 Years ago.
"Five years ago, the graduating class of 1988 from Ransome Kuti Memorial Grammar School, Surulere, Lagos, celebrated their 30th anniversary and reunion in a unique and nostalgic way.
To commemorate this special occasion, they donned their old uniforms and acted as though they were back in high school.
"The whole school gathered for an assembly, just as they had 30 years prior. Latecomers were made to kneel, just as they would have been in the past. 😂😂😂
The morning assembly was complete with announcements and songs, and the students marched to their classrooms in single file, just as they had done so many years ago.
The current students at the school got to witness this reunion, and it instilled a sense of pride in them about their school's history and tradition.
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I am one of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s strongest Critics. But those protesting with placards in Kano State, should go home.
If you did not protest for 8 years under Buhari, then you should maintain the status quo. Are protests no longer a Haram?
The DSS should move in immediately.