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The Issue With Peter Obi - David Hundeyin

The basic issue with P.O. is the same issue I had until 2024 - he refuses to acknowledge that his platform is fundamentally anti-imperial. The idea of moving Africa's largest population "from consumption to production" is a fundamentally anti-imperialism idea.

The existence of Nigeria as a consumer-import-dependent, natural resource exporter that spends resource export revenues on imported finished goods without having an industrial base to manufacture its own, is not an accident of "poor leadership" - it is the direct goal of neo-colonialism.

When instead of manufacturing goods, Nigeria instead haemorrhages its natural resources and human talent, and only receives some insufficient USD resource rents in return, this ensured that Nigeria and its African contemporaries remain artificially poor, while people who live in places where for 6 months every year, the ground freezes solid and daily sunshine is only 5 hours, remain artificially wealthy.

That is the core of the Euro-American imperial system. The military branch of this imperial system is called NATO. The governance/policy arms are called IMF/World Bank. The economic arm is called WTO. The academic/social arms are the Foundations, NGOs, policy research institutes and universities. This is what P.O. is actually up against.

So if P.O. says he wants to "move Nigeria from consumption to production", it is the same thing as declaring war on Europe, its sugar daddy in Washington, and its spiritual leader in Tel-Aviv. And if you're going to do that, you need to be fully locked in, and you need to be prepared to lose everything of yours that is under the empire's control.

I finally realised this in June 2024, and that's why I quit my £40,000/year project management job in Newcastle, packed up all my shit, withdrew all my money, gave up my 5-year UK visa, and bought a 1-way ticket back to Accra. As I am now, if and when I end up in a position of power, there is zero leverage that any white man anywhere on earth can use to blackmail me into maintaining this imperial system. I don't have property in their countries. I don't have money in their banking systems. I don't have children in their schools and universities. The most they can do is ban me from their social media.

P.O. does not want to do the same. His children are comfortable and integrated pseudo-westerners. He has property in the UK. He has money in their banks. He enjoys that regular suite at the Hilton Paddington too much. He's trying to run on a revolutionary, anti-imperialist platform while pretending that he is a friend of the Western world who doesn't want to pick a fight with them.

The problem with this is that oyibo people don't play those games. These people murdered Patrice Lumumba over a speech. You might not see yourself as their enemy, but they DEFINITELY know on what side their bread is buttered, and they know that a Nigeria where ships berth everyday, offload consumer goods, and sail away only with natural resources or empty, is a Nigeria that remains strategically poor and profitable to their empire.

They KNOW that a Nigeria under Peter Obi where education and health are properly funded, where Chinese-inspired industrial policy is enacted, where railways and steel production move to the top of national priority, and where those ships eventually start sailing from Nigeria laden with manufactured goods for export to the world, is the Nigeria that will destroy their entire parasitic way of life.

And I'm sure P.O. knows this too, but he's invested in pretending that he can play both sides, the same way Patrice Lumumba wasted valuable time doing "I am not a Communist" and trying to play nice with the same people until they killed his ass, dissolved him in sulphuric acid, and kept his gold tooth as a souvenir.

That's why I've moved on from the Obidient thing. Both he and his supporters don't know what they want and I'm exhausted.

Even his Bible says "How long will you be limping between two opinions?"

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Excellent write up but please be saving your energy David.

The people you are talking to don't like truth.

They love lies, like the one Britain told them in 1960.

Leave them let them be suffering and smiling. That is their talent.

MrEar:
Excellent write up but please be saving your energy David.

The people you are talking to don't like truth.

They love lies, like the one Britain told them in 1960.

Leave them let them be suffering and smiling. That is their talent.

Did you read what he wrote?

Even he join the end of the year party...
We follow him lim that

To intelligent people only

After going through the write up,

Then look at Anambra,


Are you not really confused?

Is Anambra not supposed to be the model for whatever P.O is promising us..Is Anambra looking like the europe or America that humdeyin was talking about?

Thank God for the Internet which is the closest to what we have as time machine. Lets quickly check real time assessment of him as governor:

Peter obi that is not even happy food price is going down

Any where party that Obi joins I dey there. Even if is NTA I dey there

This fugitive David dude and his deluded conspiracy theory.
What does he know about consumption? He has never handled a proforma invoice in his life. Majority of our imports are coming from China. Is China in Europe'

Obi fights for the poor, the poor turns around d and fight Obi.

A man who has never gotten a world class medical care, whose children attend a school with a leaking roof while sitting on the floor will rather fight Obi and mock his disciplined life than fight those who rendered him poor.

So Mr David what is the solution?
We are very quick in this country to point fingers, assign blame, and intellectually tear people down. But what exactly are we proposing as a practical way forward?

Yes, the structural issues you raised about neo-colonial dependency and import-driven economics are valid. Nobody serious will deny that Nigeria’s economic model needs a fundamental reset. But beyond identifying the problem, what is the actionable path?

Are we saying any leader who wants to industrialise Nigeria must first:
* Liquidate all foreign assets?
* Disconnect completely from global systems?
* Abandon diplomacy and take a hardline ideological stance?
Because if that is the threshold, then we need to be honest, how many people are realistically positioned to meet it and still govern effectively?
Transformation from consumption to production is not a switch you flip overnight. It requires:
* Careful economic sequencing
* Strategic partnerships (even with the same global powers)
* Institutional reforms
* Internal capacity building

Even countries that successfully industrialised didn’t do it in isolation, they navigated the same global system intelligently.
It’s fair to critique Peter Obi, but it’s also important to recognise that governance is not activism. There’s a difference between ideological purity and practical statecraft.

So Mr David, I ask again, beyond pointing out contradictions, what is the clear, step-by-step solution for Nigeria that balances realism with ambition?

Apt.

Their one time darling will hear it for exposing their lord and saviour

For the past 3 and a half years all the tilumbu 'under table crumb eaters' have been having and carrying the name of Peter Obi on their tongues and in their heads

Even after swearing that after 6 months (in 2023) he would fade away from Nigerian politics

Peter Obi has learned politics101 and he is just getting ready for the examination 😏

Why are you all shivering 🥶 okwute hasn't even entered into the exam hall yet 🤗

So what is David advising PO to do ? Tell the Western world that they have no place in the new Nigeria he is proposing? Wouldn’t that be the easiest way to his death?

I’m not a PO supporter but David just wrote nonsense.

Leave PO alone and his decision he has made.

MrEar:
Excellent write up but please be saving your energy David.

The people you are talking to don't like truth.

They love lies, like the one Britain told them in 1960.

Leave them let them be suffering and smiling. That is their talent.

I know say u no go sch
Please try read🙏
pikin wey commot for im mama belle start to dey hawk groundnut

Obidients will abuse this one . That's the only thing they know how to do.

Mstewwww..... always blaming the white man that has given u independence since 1960.

sleek214:
Obidients will abuse this one

Like how you Batistas 🦇 love abusing Peter Obi Abi? 🤗 It's the ONLY THING you all are and have been doing for a whole 3 and a half years now

Tell us what your tilumbu has done to deserve a 2nd term . . . For where ! Hahaha 🤣😂

David is actually supporting Peter Obi in this write-up.

Say whatever makes you happy.

Nigerian as we all know is formally call royal niger company.
If you study slavery well. You'll understand why we have legion and religion .

To free ourselves. We need total destruction of tge factory so the people can breathe.


Every ethnic nationals should answer their name.

NMK is spirited

Like we said, Obi's base from 2023 is already balkanized.

I wrote something about this on my status today, there is a deliberate attempt to continue keeping Nigeria where it is today.

You can't tell me that those at the helm of affairs with their degree and experience still can't figure things out let alone fix our energy problem.

Radarada. Talking from both sides of his mouth. Atimes I wonder if Tinubu supporters are more intelligent than Obi's Obedient mobs. All na cho cho cho, no concrete plan. Shioor. Like leaders like followers

Peter Obi cannot be the president of Nigeria, it's practically impossible.

Even his followers are aware but as usual they will use emotions.

Kwakwanso is there to perfect the job for Tinubu, naive Obi and his mob will still believe they will win the election

What is this one saying sef

PO is just like every other Nigerian politicians full of lies and deceits.

The fact that his campaign mantra ' consumption to production' does not mean he will keep to that ideology once he gets power.

Don't be surprised when everything turns to 'from corruption to corruption'.
Even balablu promised 24 hours power and asked to be voted out of he failed to fulfill his promise. He has failed and some zombies will still vote for him.

Trust politicians at your own peril.

Dem go soon abuse dis one.. Wait and see

David Hundeyin is a hungry fool. He knows nothing of what he speaks of.

It is. He invested in factories. Specifically, a brewery that generates hundreds of millions/billions of naira every year and employ thousands of people. The status of Onitsha main market (the largest in Subsaharan Africa) was significantly improved under him. And there are many more. People like you are why Hundeyin is wrong. Nigeria is where we are today because of successive bad governments who have weaponized poverty and ignorance so much that many people, including you, reason and make decisions the wrong way, to the benefits of your political gods.

Basic123:
To intelligent people only

After going through the write up,

Then look at Anambra,


Are you not really confused?

Is Anambra not supposed to the model for whatever P.O is promising us..Is Anambra looking like the europe or America that humdeyin was talking about?