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A Nigerian man, Chibuike Ifedilichukwu, went viral days ago when he shared a video of a Peter Obi portrait he made with drink cans. In an interview with Legit.ng, he talked about his passion for art and why he chose the materials he used for the portrait.

Chibuike Ifedilichukwu's background
The Nigerian artist revealed that he was born in Enugu in 1986 and he is currently based in Anambra state. He got a diploma in 2012 from the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu. Chibuike has had over 20 art exhibition shows, one of which was the October Rain Art Exhibition, Resilience, Lagos Nigeria 2020. The brilliant artist described Peter Obi as Nigerians' political messiah.

Why Chibuike used cans for arts
Chibuike stated that cans are just some of the many materials he uses as an artist. Two reasons he cited for going for cans are that they do not decay and recycling them takes them away from places where they become environmental hazards.

For the number of cans he used for Peter Obi's portraits, he said: "30 - 50 cans and 30 days minimum. Some of my art even take year(s) depending on size of piece." About the Peter Obi portrait The brilliant Nigerian artist titled the work Obedient Rock, saying the artwork depicts the image of a being who is coming to save people from their struggles. He said: "The art portray image of our political messiah who is willing to comply with the positive commands, orders, or instructions of people if elected into authority. This artwork mated with aluminum and stitched with copper wire shows the solidify nature of Nigeria as a strong nation."


Chibuike went further to say that the colours on the portrait represent different things. The green and blue colours represent growth and love for Nigerians.

For the patches of gold and black on the artwork, he said: "The reflection of Gold and black signifies his indigenous golden mind and motives to make life worth living for everyone." Exploring wastes for their values According to Chibuike, environmental wastes could be recycled into meaningful things. He is going after a future he described as building "human equilibrium ecology by recreating waste objects like plastic packaging strap (PPStrap), aluminum and copper wire."

Another artist who drew Peter Obi
Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a young Nigerian man, Bamaiyi Danladi, who always makes great art, went online to showcase the beautiful mural artwork he made in Kaduna.

Source: https://www.legit.ng/people/1497651-talented-nigerian-artist-recycles-waste-drink-cans-uses-peter-obis-portrait/

The video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRHL9V2T/

Beautiful

Pure Talent

Beautiful

Instead of using his talent to create better people, he is used it to make a pandora thief potrait.

Abeycity93:
Instead of using his talent to create better people, he is used it to make a pandora thief potrait.

People like this.

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Good Leadership inspires the followers to be ingenious.

#VoteWisely
#ForOurFuture

Ok

Follow who know road.. Vote wisely.

The love Nigerians especially the youth shower on this man is beautiful....

I pray he won't fvkup because I remember how we showed bubu love too when he came the first time...


Now see where we are...

But at least Obi is not promising us heaven and earth like they did during their own in 2013.

He's got talent!

This Obidient could have been more useful for himself. Futile effort

Nice.

Urchins can't be creative like this.

People, vote your conscience o o.

Vote wisely o

Vote Peter Obi for a better Nigeria..

We shall get it right and the time is NOW!

Good one

I know he must be ibo
Peter Pandora Obituary is an IPOB project

The love is natural

I am Yoruba but dont want Tinubu to win this election. I would have loved Obi to win, but it is visible, except to the blind, that there in an unwritten constitution that an Igbo man can never rule this country

Good idea, the environment is cleaner.

Abeycity93:
Instead of using his talent to create better people, he is used it to make a pandora thief potrait.

you mean he should use it to make the people who made 1 dollars almost 750 Naira

Let me know when you see it

Abeycity93:
Instead of using his talent to create better people, he is used it to make a pandora thief potrait.

thank God he didn't use it to creat ur great grand father (thief)

DropsMic:
Follow who know road.. Vote wisely.

aka soro onye m uzor

All these gimmicks of painting are becoming stale...We are now in the serious business of campaigning, strategizing and canvassing for votes.

No be portrait dey win election

Wow, this is amazing, We get talent for this country abeg

Urchins are senseless

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Abeycity93:
Instead of using his talent to create better people, he is used it to make a pandora thief potrait.

Ah! This one pain u reach marrow
Where u expecting him to use it and create a drug lord?
I feel ur pains sha

Jobless youth!

I trust Akagum! shishi, he will not get!

sammirano:
This Obidient could have been more useful for himself. Futile effort

U nor get sense can not see sense so we understand ur issue

Very good...
Some very jelous humans will bash this talented human being

CoronaVirusRelo:
Jobless youth!

Yet he get talent pass u