₦airaland Forum

We Are Finished!

I join millions of Nigerians in wishing Her Excellency, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, a happy birthday. May God Almighty, who has been with her all these years, grant her many more healthy, fruitful, and happy years.

However, I was struck by irony reading her request: that instead of cakes or newspaper adverts, well-wishers should donate toward completing the National Library in Abuja. On the surface, it is noble and selfless. But beneath it lies an indictment of our nation.

I recall that, as Governor of Anambra State, I too urged that money meant for adverts be channelled into meaningful causes—computers for schools and classroom blocks. Such gestures were never meant to replace the government’s duty but to complement it. The state still bore the responsibility of providing those essentials. That is why it is shocking that, in our present circumstances, while billions are easily found for jets, yachts, unused mansions, endless trips abroad, and other frivolities, the nation must rely on birthday donations to complete its own National Library.

What kind of country must beg for charity to build the very temple of knowledge? What kind of leaders waste trillions on luxury and vanity, while the National Library - our intellectual furnace - remains abandoned in the capital? Serious nations treat libraries as sacred; but here we reduce them to afterthoughts, begging bowls, or birthday tokens.

Mrs Tinubu was right: education is the most enduring legacy a nation can give its people. Yet to know this truth and still prioritise vanity is both shocking and tragic.

If Nigeria will rise, it will not be on the wings of jets or the splendour of mansions, but on the strength of minds formed in classrooms and nourished in libraries. Until then, the lament remains true—we are finished. -PO

seunmsg:
Peter Obi now plays politics with birthday celebrations ? Wow! Seems there is no dirty depth this guy can’t descend to in his desperation for power. He’s completely unhinged and it’s so pathetic and sympathetic to see what political desperation has turn this guy into. Obi needs our prayers at this point because the next stage may be a full market display of lunacy.

seunmsg:
Peter Obi now plays politics with birthday celebrations ? Wow! Seems there is no dirty depth this guy can’t descend to in his desperation for power. He’s completely unhinged and it’s so pathetic and sympathetic to see what political desperation has turn this guy into. Obi needs our prayers at this point because the next stage may be a full market display of lunacy.

helinues:
Before nko, you are finished politically in Nigeria ad you can never be trusted considering how you have been inconsistent with your political ideology and beliefs

00FFT00:
So, na citizens go dey build or maintain national assets while your lord and savior squanders our money on jets and mansions, abi?.

seunmsg:
Peter Obi now plays politics with birthday celebrations ? Wow! Seems there is no dirty depth this guy can’t descend to in his desperation for power. He’s completely unhinged and it’s so pathetic and sympathetic to see what political desperation has turn this guy into. Obi needs our prayers at this point because the next stage may be a full market display of lunacy.

erad:
You see... This is what happens when you're desperate and have sycophants all around you, you don't know when to speak or keep quiet. If Bukola Saraki speaks now, it holds weight because people understand he hardly says anything so for him to speak, then that thing must be important.

Most of the gains Peter Obi made over the last few years have been eroded with his excessive intakes on the most irrelevant things. Tinubu sneezes, he has something to say about it, and it always ends up being from a political angle. Not knowing when to keep the mouth shut is the reason fishes get hooked.

Now they know how to bait him and what to bait him with, he has lost the mystery about him and that's the greatest mistake he has made.

Sannisege:
When Tinubu was in opposition, all he did was release just one statement and the grounds will shake. But see this one making noise everytime on every issue. Obi’s words no longer carry weight.

DeJoeee:
Do you know what a National library is?
Are you aware the deadliest attack on any nation is not its Airports or Infrastructure but its national library where the very essence of her history and civilization is stored? stop exposing your ignorance on things you know nothing about.

masterfactor:
This is where you will find obi, but when it comes to matter of IPOB, HE WILL ENTER DO NOT DISTURB MODE

erad:
You see... This is what happens when you're desperate and have sycophants all around you, you don't know when to speak or keep quiet. If Bukola Saraki speaks now, it holds weight because people understand he hardly says anything so for him to speak, then that thing must be important.

Most of the gains Peter Obi made over the last few years have been eroded with his excessive intakes on the most irrelevant things. Tinubu sneezes, he has something to say about it, and it always ends up being from a political angle. Not knowing when to keep the mouth shut is the reason fishes get hooked.

Now they know how to bait him and what to bait him with, he has lost the mystery about him and that's the greatest mistake he has made.