Suddenly, it is all quiet on the eastern front. No
street heckles or flag waving or mooning over a
yellow sun, no hooting or baying in public. The
rabble no longer raves. Few wonder what
happened to the Nnamdi Kanu crowd. Some may
wonder if they are withering?
The answer is before our eyes. The Biafran
babblers are alive and well. They just swapped
icons, rechristened the shrines and rewrote the
rites. They left the prophet for a secular priest.
They have had a switch of battle gear.
Maybe it is not quiet. We can hear and feel the
cacophony. The chants and caterwauling are
everywhere, especially on the phones. The twitter
bees, the Instagram grimes, the Facebook
freaks. They are alive and well, but they have not
been at war at the side of their icon, who is
griping in detention.


It’s farewell Kanu. Welcome Obi, at least until the
new priest peters out. They are at his worship.
They embrace it because it does not, for the first
time in years, feel like they are outside the
mainstream. They are not falling foul of the law,
not howling from the fringes. They have Peter
Obi as their man. He is mainstream. He belongs,
not to the MASSOB, or Kanu’s assembly called
IPOB. They can say they have a legitimate tribe
and rhetoric. They may pretend to love Nigeria.
They may claim to embrace INEC, cling to a
political party no one in the police or DSS will
harangue.
But that is where it stops. They have transferred
the temperament of their former master into the
new. And they have not spared any incoherence,
any lack of finesse, and threats and tantrums,
any show of rabid, primitive cants, or any
ululations. They have abused, cursed, thrown
imprecations. They have hugged lies about their
candidate. They have pelted lies about others.
They have distorted material.


Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even
closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about
Biafra without being accused of it. This includes
intellectuals who did not show mercy to him
while he reigned in Anambra as a pharisaic chief
executive. It is like wearing a colour beneath
another colour. Obi has become a shelter for
both miscreants and activists of the crowd.
Obi knows this. He is happy to be their
catharsis, to be their excuse for unfurling their
bile at the system, for acting like revolutionaries.
He is playing to it by acting as though he is the
saint of Nigerian politics. Perhaps the purists of
the Biafran cause are unhappy, and they
unleashed a past video clip of Kanu on the
social media. In it, Kanu lashes out at Obi as
governor and stated what this essayist wrote
about him over building a NEXT supermarket
while still the governor of Anambra State. The
video clip referred to him as a sort of sexual
being on the fringe. You can imagine an Aso
Rock sweltering with romps of the evil flesh. His
so-called Obidients know this. But it counts for
little.


But this essayist can understand why Obi knows
that the crowd that adores him will not question
him. He is therefore using religion as a bait. He
is now on a weekly pilgrimage to churches.
Jonathan did the same. The pastors, ever
opportunistic, see him as a darling. He is visiting
a sectional hue of pews. This is the man who
divided the church in Anambra State in his time
between Catholics and the others. He is trying to
push himself as the Christian candidate of the
south while his messengers foul the air with
sanctimonious growl about Muslim-Muslim
ticket. I am sure Kanu will chuckle in his cocoon,
especially when he contemplates what he alleges
as his sinful romps in hotels.


There is a divide here. He is pushing himself as
a southern candidate. His core followers are
advancing him as the Igbo candidate. But how do
we reconcile the Biafran with an Obi, who even
MASSOB, has denied has anything to do with
them? Obi is taking a Machiavellian attitude to
the matter. If Biafran impulse will propel him, he
will take it. The Biafrans on board believe Obi is
their best revenge on the Nigerian state. They
can take over the zoo by acting as members of
the zoo.


But this psychology is nothing new. The private
man and public man may not always cohere. In
their huts, they are Biafrans. On the frontlines of
battle, they are Obi. It is like Mr. Mani in A.B.
Yehoshua’s novel who calls himself a Jew but
does not believe in Jehovah. He embraces the
culture but renounces its mystery. One of 20th
century’s top philosophers, Hannah Arendt,
obsesses over this schizophrenia in his opus,
The Origins of Totalitarianism. The Obi followers
accept Biafra but reject Nigeria. They abandon
the mystic of the cause, Nnamdi Kanu, and have
followed Obi, its inauthentic saint. It is the
pragmatism of the cause. Kanu is the unarmed
prophet, sulking behind bars. Obi is out in the
open, a bird in hand. Machiavelli warned against
the unarmed prophet, who fights without power.
Elijah was armed against his foes. So was Jesus
until he was crucified. They see Obi as armed
with electoral quest. It is their own version of the
Trojan War. Obi is the Greek Gift that they will
ride in the battle for conquest.


They have now evangelised others from outside
the southeast to give a regional legitimacy to
their cause. They call themselves Obidients but
they obey only one call: the sound of the east.
Those in south-south have been seduced as by
the cooing of Obi’s voice as by evangelism of
the Biafrans. Mind you, they have not abandoned
Kanu. But their icon has no power for now. Obi
is like Zik, Kanu like Ojukwu. One is a flair, the
other a flare.


While Obi hops from church to church and
beclouds the hypocrisy among political pastors,
the nation watches as his sectional army taunts
and harangues others. But Obi will do nothing to
restrain his rabble because he knows they are
doing a good job in keeping the faithful within
their own bubble where they reinforce their own
self-delusions. That will last until their last call
at the polls. This is not the time to properly
interrogate in details the false intimations of
Obi’s agenda and hypocrisies. But it is safe to
say one thing. Before he peters out and hurtles
towards an electoral Obi, the country knows
the content of the crowd and its origin. They are
a caterwauling group trying to seduce, without
much success, those outside its ethno-religious
tent.

Source>> https://thenationonlineng.net/Obi/

Totilopussylick:
Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about Biafra without being accused of it.




Nnamudi kcownu became irrelevant to the people of south east since Obi came out to contest for Nigeria president.

chicfarmer:
Fake link.

Totilopussylick:

The mistake these opponents of Peter Obi is making, is thinking that only Igbos are supporting Peter Obi, this is so wrong that its pitiable how someone can wallow in such depths of self deceit.

Tinubu became irrelevant to the people of south east since Obi came out to contest for Nigeria president.

MadamExcellency:
The bitterness that exhumes from this article should inform the police to put the Author on suicide watch.

The bitterness is hotter than a gas sulfur furnace. Yes, it's terrible.

Oplomo:
I love it how Tinubu supporters and lackeys struggle to support him.

Many of them already know he is destined for an EPIC FAIL at the polls next year but they need to keep up appearances and of course keep their pay check.

Tinubu is LOOSING TO PETER OBI in the south and middle belt next year. While he also struggles to gain votes against 2 northern heavy weights in the core north.

Tinubu should be pitied, his ambition is already dead before he even started.

citizenY:
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