Right now, the Nigerian political terrain is temperate. Not too hot, not too cold. I’m just having fun watching as the melodrama of the jostle for power among presidential hopefuls unfolds day by day; before it turns too sour to munch on. All I do now is to enjoy the sweetened comestibles of political campaigns that have not yet begun in full and flying swing. The wind of politics blowing today from the four corners of the Nigerian space is now either BATIFIED, OBIFIED, OR ATIKULATED. BATIFIED Nigerians are the ones in the bathtub of frenzied loyalty to the All Progressives Congress standard-bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. At the turn of specific seasons of life and in set times buried in the exclusive knowledge of Divinity, humanity experiences the birthing of some special breed of beings who have been marked to carry out specific assignments on behalf of specific territories and nations. Bola Tinubu is one. A bawling voice in the wilderness of Nigerian politics. Those who love him are very many. Those who despise him are not few either. Tinubu’s BATIFIED battalion believes this season is the phat phenomenon’s turn to be made king. And it is increasingly becoming obvious that the duel for who wears the beaded crown next year may be between Tinubu and a rising challenger in the former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi.

The OBIDIENT are Nigerian bow-wows, who want to hear nothing about anyone else but Peter OBI. They are fiery and feisty foot soldiers, and they have taken over the media space. The deaf everywhere hears them. In the North, they are knocking on doors. In the South, they shout. They are intentionally loud. They aren’t kidding around. They want power in 2023. Their desideratum is to see authority change hands from the old to the new. They see themselves as the new. As a matter of fact, they make Obi look new, though he has been around for a while, pitched his tents with three political parties for about two decades and is a household nomenclature, especially in the South. But don’t tell them Obi is part of the past. They will eat you up alive. Go and ask Femi Kuti, the Lagos-based Nigerian musician and the eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti. Femi’s unpardonable sin was to declare his support for no presidential candidate. OBIDIENTS launched and snarled at him threatening to raze the 60-year-old out of the tracks of history. OBIDIENTS aren’t joking.

While some are threatening fire and brimstones to raze any opposition, others are raising money. Obi is shovelling in cash running into billions of naira to prosecute his cause. A friend organising for Obi invited me to a fundraiser scheduled for Los Angeles soon. Another fund drive is scheduled for the end of the month in Houston. My friends, Obi is no mere noise. He is poised to steal the show from those who have always been showcased on the purlieu of power. His profile is rising in charms and chimes as his followership balloons. New converts drawn to his gospel are swelling in size. His tub-thumpers are from everywhere. They are young and old. Obi is making forays into unexpected cohorts. The cohort we built in support of Yemi Osinbajo during the party primaries now has more than half of the members swinging to Obi. And they are Yoruba, Igbo and all. They seem to have found a home in Obi’s tent. Obi has not changed talking populist economic sense. What he talks about appeals to ordinary Nigerians. How long the talk will sway Nigerians is what we aren’t sure of.

If anyone thinks these OBIDIENTS are only active on social media, and that’s where it will end, you may have another think coming. Some erroneously compare Obi with Omoyele Sowore and other past aspirants, who won Presidential elections on every social media platform, in many focus groups, and in many opinion polls but never won for real. Obi’s present standing army is different. The soldiers see themselves as table-shaking, history-making revolutionaries who cannot be stopped. These people are not building for tomorrow, they are pushing for power today. Will they get it? I don’t know. But this campaign is formidable. And treat them with kid’s gloves only at your perishing peril.

The ATIKULATED. They are bodacious backers of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, whom we heard live in Dubai but wants to rule in Nigeria. Where are they? We hear about a party in disarray and disillusionment. We hear the rancorous katzenjammer coming out of Port Harcourt where the state Governor, Nyesom Wike, beats his drum of dissension against his party establishment. But we are tracking all of these candidates. But Atiku is no small fry. The next Presidential election may be the most expensive in the history of Nigeria. The top three candidates are billionaires, including Peter Obi. A Tinubu supporter who pleaded anonymity told me that the real campaign for the presidential election has not begun. “We are combing villages and hamlets in the North and mobilising everywhere in the South. The months of embers begin in a week. We will shock you,” he said.

Which one of us sees tomorrow? What is going on right now, however, is that there is momentum for one of the candidates. What is momentum? It is a stratospheric movement of the moment. In physics, it is real. In politics, it is a metaphor. Momentum helps win an election. Without it, a candidate is vanquished. Momentum, however, is an unpredictable swinging pendulum. It is an unreliable friend and feisty foe. It may stand with you today and against you tomorrow. The best climatologists of politics cannot accurately predict the momentum. As of today, it factual and for real that Peter Obi is mounting up with wings, with the momentum which is stoutly in his favour. But the election is a long, long time from now, especially when you are in the same ring with a man like Tinubu. And Obi and Atiku know this to be true.

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Follow who know road

Obi will make Nigeria great again

God has placed Peter Obi above others in this Presidential election and yes, Obi is our next President.

An 88yrs old Tinubu will never be my president

On Obi Mandate we stand

Ok

A presidential candidate that patronizes Mc oluomo, Kabaka, Kabiru Sokoto, Asari dokubo cannot solve insecurity, but would only be adding to the list of terrorists sects in Nigeria.

It’s disheartening that people would have to compose a novel in the quest to sell a candidate, who all planetary bodies know is bound to fail.


Whoever read the novel should please summarize in two sentences.

Even We Yoruba Christian's are fully OBIdient since Tinubu is on useless muslim muslim ticket , we are not fools,

One thing you can be sure is that Obi will never go round the world borrowing and borrowing like the prodigal. He Haa business sense

But the noise is getting Louder now if is just a noise it would have gotten to u guys attention


You called what happened at NBA conference noises?
You called Christians most supported candidate noise?
You called most youths preferred candidate noise?
You called the most talk about Candidate noise?
Ogaoooooooooo!
Just because Peter obi didn't you give u guys shishi like Agbago and Dubai crooner you call him noise 2023 will shock electric itself

The truth is that Peter Obi has more passionate supporters than the duo of Atiku and Tinubu. Obi wins if 2023 election is free and fair. Tinubu and Atiku can only win through fraud and corrupt means. Peter Obi must win. Nigeria must never continue like this.

Staphylococcus:
It’s disheartening that people would have to compose a novel in the quest to sell a candidate, who all planetary bodies know is bound to fail.


Whoever read the novel should please summarize in two sentences.

You're one of the problem of this country

So you want Nigerians to vote Tinubu that is 88yrs old , corrupt and cannot stand on his own

How do you explain the picture below sir

On Obi's mandate we stand

Coolsperm:
Even We Yoruba Christian's are fully OBIdient since Tinubu is on useless muslim muslim ticket , we are not fools,

Do a DNA test.

I could tell from your use of English that you have ties to Ngwa, Abia state.

2023 election is going to be a shocker for PDP and APC urchins Peter Obi mandate I stand..

Well written, painstakingly observations and political ingenuity based on undeniable facts, current reality in Nigeria.

In God we Trust

A very biased article written by Obi cretian..

Results go come February

Make we see the magic Obi wan do for south south his backyard and Anambra his state

No be noise

Bingos like barking but who cares

Atiku is the Next President of Nigeria


Plus minus a.m.

NaijaRoyalty:
God has placed Peter Obi above others in this Presidential election and yes, Obi is our next President.

An 88yrs old Tinubu will never be my president

Only wicked souls support Tinubu. People who crawl out in the night and those tribalists who see nothing good in other people from different tribes or religions.

I tell u. Let us try something else and see if there would be a change. The suffering in the land is too much.
Obi should be given a chance...

NaijaRoyalty:
Obi will make Nigeria great again

Staphylococcus:
It’s disheartening that people would have to compose a novel in the quest to sell a candidate, who all planetary bodies know is bound to fail.


Whoever read the novel should please summarize in two sentences.

What is the biggest joke, indicative of the desperation of Obi's fans and why they are losers, is this garbage article that uses three different pictures of Obi with OBJ.

Same OBJ that wanted to destroy Obi politically, and ruthlessly impeached him so Ubah could replace him , is now a hero to Obi fans who are desperate to 'famz' everyone and anyone never minding they look disgraceful doing so. Lol.

A project of hope and hype same as they are desperate to ignore the structureless reality of Obi shown below. A complete political aberration and rulership impossibility . Two federal Reps and one Senator. Nothing else. In OBJ voice 'we dey laff'.

APCnaPDP:


Only wicked souls support Tinubu. People who crawl out in the night and those tribalists who see nothing good in other people from different tribes or religions.

Grow up. Democracy is not about claiming others are ogres. It is about your votes carrying the day.

If that does not happen then accept the choice of the majority. Simple as that.

sorepco:
I tell u. Let us try something else and see if there would be a change. The suffering in the land is too much.
Obi should be given a chance...

A chance to do what exactly? Is Obi, for the knowledgeable and informed Nigerian, not well known enough to see he is not "change" and is even worse than many running?

Sowore may be seen as change because he is unknown in a leadership sense. Never Obi we have documented evidence of his many failures as Governor of Anambra.

Obi we know very well. Same man, fore example, offering millions in reward for "clues" over the bodies in Ezu River when, as Governor of Anambra, there is no way Obi could not have known the evil genocidaire cop James Nwafor and his killer squad were behind it.

Bereaved families, brave enough to do so, petitioned Obi for god sake. [b]He did nothing. [/b]Instead he chose to deceive, as he always does and is doing now, trying to dupe the populace with the rubbish below. Please let Obi rule Biafra.

He will never be President of Nigeria. You guys should face the reality of what things like below are telling you about the real Peter Obi and stop your childish hype of a known failure who would be a total disaster and never "change" .

Godfullsam:
Peter Obi is the man of the people

And the next president of Nigeria

Godfullsam:
Peter Obi is the man of the people

He is a man of the people too ignorant to do minimal google search of his leadership CV to see it is full of glaring, unforgivable, cowardly and very dangerous failures and dereliction of duty .

He is a man of the same Nigerians who run their lives with over-religiosity and seek miracles always without understanding "heaven helps those who help themselves".

He is the messiah of Nigerians who can never hold their leaders accountable yet expect miracles from one individual to the extent they are prepared, like children, to ignore the reality of how Obi is a proven failure.

How many Obi supporters have critically inspected his record as governor with specific focus on how he faced challenges and the results of his efforts or lack of effort?

Nigerians are an ignorantly and blindly hopeful people which I understand because they have been failed serially for over 60 years now since independence.

They are a people reduced to turning to God for everything and seeking miracles because failure is all they expect from leaders.

That is what that Obi is benefitting from yet those of us still pragmatically sound know that the proven failure and liar called Peter Obi must never be the beneficiary of frustrated, hope-deprived and fed up Nigerians because he would worsen thing horribly at this very dangerous period in our existence as a nation.

His record as a leader proves this and not my personal disapproval of him .

...

Peter Obi represents a revolutionary movement to Emancipate the citizens of Nigeria from the shackles of political Bandits masquerading as our leaders.

Dsalvo:


Grow up. Democracy is not about claiming others are ogres. It is about your votes carrying the day.

If that does not happen then accept the choice of the majority. Simple as that.

Old man, I didn’t say I wasn’t going to accept the choice of the majority. If Nigerians choose to vote an old man who is being held while walking or told what to say while making a speech, then that’s their problem but the fact is that we will all suffer it together. There will not be a separate market for Tinubu’s supporters.

I maintain what i said, people who will vote for APC after their calamitous 8 years are tribalists, religious bigots or people feeding fat on the crumbling system.

NaijaRoyalty:

And the next president of Nigeria

Keep fooling yourself like an innocent and naive child who see the greatest dad in the world yet has a criminal, irresponsible cheat and failure for a father.

What is shown below alone confirms how much of a joke Obi is and why he will never be supported to be even a minister let alone President.

Someone who had the chance to stand and fight for the ticket of the biggest opposition Party in Nigeria fled like a pathetic coward to go and run on the pathetic platform below.

As is always the case with Obi, everything is about deception ti deceive the gullible and desperate like you.

Even Obi knows he will be impeached within 3 months if he lands in the Presidency on the platform show below.

They are interviewing Obi up and down and he is enjoying lying to the deliberately simplistic and m0r0nic question compromised Nigerian journos are asking him.

Let a serious and brave journo ask Obi how he hopes to lead Nigeria and push through any executive bill with the legislative zero presented below. Or is it you and others like you who will be his legislators? Lol.