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Friends, admirers, and the “Obidient” fanbase of the former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, love to call him by the sobriquet “Okwute,” which in Igbo, Nigeria’s third-largest socio-linguistic group, means rock, boulder, or stone. Quite a nice alias – especially if you associate some doctrinal nuances of Obi’s faith with his first name, Peter.

The symbolism of the name Okwute, borne by males, signifies one who is strong, dependable and unyielding in Igbo cosmology. But a nice alias is not necessarily a fitting one.

The fluidity with which Obi moves around the political circuits has little, if any, resemblance to a rock, boulder or even a stone. Except, of course, if he’s a rolling stone, lacking in constancy, bereft of moss. A rock or a boulder is solid, come rain, come shine; it is constant in and out of season.

I’m not suggesting that Okwute should have remained in Onitsha or Aba. That would be absolutely ludicrous! After all, life is a journey.

Peter the Clay
I’m saying that this Obi is a Peter of Clay – malleable, confused, and lacking in staying power. He’s drifting, mistaking a jungle for a zoo. This should be a great source of worry for his troops, especially the social media-based avatars (without voter cards), who deify Obi and whose political signature tune is “the Obi-way or the highway.” His political history needs no retelling other than to record what a missed opportunity it represents.



Obi’s transition from serious contender to Mascot, by Azu Ishiekwene
Obi’s transition from serious contender to Mascot, by Azu Ishiekwene
Friends, admirers, and the “Obidient” fanbase of the former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, love to call him by the sobriquet “Okwute,” which in Igbo, Nigeria’s third-largest socio-linguistic group, means rock, boulder, or stone. Quite a nice alias – especially if you associate some doctrinal nuances of Obi’s faith with his first name, Peter.

The symbolism of the name Okwute, borne by males, signifies one who is strong, dependable and unyielding in Igbo cosmology. But a nice alias is not necessarily a fitting one.


The fluidity with which Obi moves around the political circuits has little, if any, resemblance to a rock, boulder or even a stone. Except, of course, if he’s a rolling stone, lacking in constancy, bereft of moss. A rock or a boulder is solid, come rain, come shine; it is constant in and out of season.



I’m not suggesting that Okwute should have remained in Onitsha or Aba. That would be absolutely ludicrous! After all, life is a journey.

Peter the Clay
I’m saying that this Obi is a Peter of Clay – malleable, confused, and lacking in staying power. He’s drifting, mistaking a jungle for a zoo. This should be a great source of worry for his troops, especially the social media-based avatars (without voter cards), who deify Obi and whose political signature tune is “the Obi-way or the highway.” His political history needs no retelling other than to record what a missed opportunity it represents.

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After the tale of him winning the 2023 presidential poll – an election in which he punched above his political weight and won in 12 states – even if only with narrow margins outside his South-Eastern enclave, Okwute fragmented like sedimentary rock thereafter. It would have been sufficient for him to build on his good showing at the poll, but claiming he won an election in which his party had no agents in about 54 percent of the polling centres was a stretch.

A Yiaga Africa Report on the 2023 elections said that while the APC deployed agents in 96 percent of polling units, the Labour Party deployed agents in only 46 per cent. Agent deployment is a critical factor in election performance.

Failed romance
The man who became the de facto and adopted candidate of the Nigeria Labour Congress and sundry trade unions – a substantial voting bloc, failed to seize the initiative after the poll. He went on throwing tantrums, wasting energy and resources in litigation, and missed the opportunity to consolidate and build the structure of the Labour Party – a convenient vehicle he had appropriated overnight, barely three days before the presidential primaries of his previous Peoples Democratic Party in May 2022.

Justice Ayo Isa Salami, a retired president of the Appeal Court and an eminent jurist, has criticised Obi’s midnight migration to LP as an illegality that would have excluded him from the presidential contest. Salami said Obi’s participation was the result of poor judicial diligence and perhaps a lack of experience on the bench.

Okwute’s jump also stirred speculations and gave credence to the claim that he was deliberately avoiding primaries in the PDP.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/obis-transition-from-serious-contender-to-mascot-by-azu-ishiekwene/

Peter Obi is standing taller than the entire leaders available in the op's region today hence his bile and penchant for creating propaganda threads against the man of the people 🤗

Peter Obi is coming

Some people are just wicked! 😂🤣😂

Mascot! 😂🤣😂🤣

Peter obi is only interested in that title of former presidential candidate

When we see paid jornanilsm, we know.

Head or tail, Obi remains the best option for Nigeria

Let the APC efulefus, direct or indirect, continue throwing their tantrums

Azu Ishiekwene is a professional journalist for hire. Here, he is already at work for City Boys of Nigeria.

If Peter Obi is such a clown, why is everyone including a bitter retired judge losing sleep and talking about him?

ebuk4real:

When we see paid jornanilsm, we know.

Head or tail, Obi remains the best option for Nigeria

Let the APC efulefus, direct or indirect, continue throwing their tantrums

Tell us anything not correct from what the man wrote?

The writer should kuku use clown 🤡 . Which one be mascot

Didn't one so called veteran journalist title his article OBITURARY

APC is good in propaganda and I would only advise that they should know that things have changed. The more you abuse a candidate, the more you attract pity and the underdog is usually favored. Don't repeat the same mistakes you made in 2023 where you wrote them off until you saw the results on election day.

Statments like this was how they wrote two people in a room tweeting, they don't have voters card etc. Many of these old guards are forgetting that this generation of youth play politics differently and they have their own identity. The worst thing to do is make them feel like they don't matter

I’m saying that this Obi is a Peter of Clay – malleable, confused, and lacking in staying power. He’s drifting, mistaking a jungle for a zoo. This should be a great source of worry for his troops, especially the social media-based avatars (without voter cards), who deify Obi and whose political signature tune is “the Obi-way or the highway.” His political history needs no retelling other than to record what a missed opportunity it represents.

Do not bury a dead body until it stops breathing.

Obi will not be on any ballot in the 2027 election

SeeWahala:
Peter Obi is standing taller than the entire leaders available in the op's region today hence his bile and penchant for creating propaganda threads against the man of the people 🤗

Peter Obi is coming

Bia Nwanem, What region is the original writer Azubuike from?

Just to translate what that means to English. It means "the past is my strength".

Sometimes, you should take a breath before you respond just because you've read Peter Obí.

aswani:
Bia Nwanem, What region is the original writer Azubuike from?

Just to translate what that means to English. It means "the past is my strength".

Sometimes, you should take a breath before you respond just because you've read Peter Obí.

See you you want to jump in and defend your tilumbu abi? 🤗 Oya answer me this . . .

Is the WRITER of the piece and the OP of this thread the same person/entity? 🤔

Take your time i will wait 😏

aswani:
Bia Nwanem, What region is the original writer Azubuike from?

Just to translate what that means to English. It means "the past is my strength".

Sometimes, you should take a breath before you respond just because you've read Peter Obí.

So because it was written by someone whose name sound like our neigbour does nöt it mean it is not propaganda.

It smells like a faaake certttifficcate hollldderr propaganda . The failed guru strategist dislike anything opposition

tinsel:
Tell us anything not correct from what the man wrote?

No worry. Una go wail tire. It takes a crook to know one. Enjoy your robotic mind

SeeWahala:
See you you want to jump in and defend your tilumbu abi? 🤗 Oya answer me this . . .

Is the WRITER of the piece and the OP of this thread the same person/entity? 🤔

Take your time i will wait 😏

Good point well made.

Although we haven't proven yet that Azubuike is not the op, after all, SeeWahala might describe you appropriately, but that isn't your name.

Fair play to you on this one sha, dammit!

DatNiggaDaz:


So because it was written by someone whose name sound like our neigbour does nöt it mean it is not propaganda.

It smells like a faaake certttifficcate hollldderr propaganda . The failed guru strategist dislike anything opposition

Oga, did you read what I responded to? The post was based on the fact that the person that wrote the article was Ndi Yoruba when it was a neighbour of yours that wrote it.

Nothing to do with propaganda which we all know is what saying "fake certificate holder" is. Imagine that, you are complaining about propaganda when you yourself are throwing your own in.

Obidients sha

Obi doesn't know what he's doing. Left all you can achieve with Labour party and labour Congress to go and start dragging ticket with people that are crude

SeeWahala:
Peter Obi is standing taller than the entire leaders available in the op's region today hence his bile and penchant for creating propaganda threads against the man of the people 🤗

Peter Obi is coming

Obi couldn't tender his certificate to inec during 2023 election, he only presented his waec result but Tinubu presented his Chicago certificate. So the real joke is on you and your Obidients family

aswani:
Oga, did you read what I responded to? The post was based on the fact that the person that wrote the article was Ndi Yoruba when it was a neighbour of yours that wrote it.

Nothing to do with propaganda which we all know is what saying "fake certificate holder" is. Imagine that, you are complaining about propaganda when you yourself are throwing your own in.

Obidients sha

It is the politics of tribalism and division that will make one do name checker before every opinion, then draw a conclusion from there.

You are telling me that just because someone is Yoruba, they must support Tinubu? Or because someone is Igbo, they must support Obi and if they are from Yola, they must support Atiku? That's a naive way of looking at earth. I knew that we used to have some people like this, but since brother Bola took over, he raised it to the power of how much a liter of fuel costs. Very sad.

You drew your opening statement from the writer's name then concluded on a mass group, expecting they all act the same, behave the same and think the same. That's called AFFINITY BIAS.

SixSeven:
It is the politics of tribalism and division that will make one do name checker before every opinion, then draw a conclusion from there.

You are telling me that just because someone is Yoruba, they must support Tinubu? Or because someone is Igbo, they must support Obi and if they are from Yola, they must support Atiku? That's a naive way of looking at earth. I knew that we used to have some people like this, but since brother Bola took over, he raised it to the power of how much a liter of fuel costs. Very sad.

You drew your opening statement from the writer's name then concluded on a mass group, expecting they all act the same, behave the same and think the same. That's called AFFINITY BIAS.

Per the bolded, you are telling yourself what you want.

You are rambling as you either haven't read my post or read and not understood.

Please put the posts you read in their proper context.