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Ofunaofu:
Obi*tuary
By Sam Omatseye On Aug 1, 2022

Suddenly, it is all quiet on the eastern front. No street heckles or flag waving or mooning over a yellow sun, no hooting or baying in public. The rabble no longer raves. Few wonder what happened to the Nnamdi Kanu crowd. Some may wonder if they are withering?

The answer is before our eyes. The Biafran babblers are alive and well. They just swapped icons, rechristened the shrines and rewrote the rites. They left the prophet for a secular priest. They have had a switch of battle gear.

Maybe it is not quiet. We can hear and feel the cacophony. The chants and caterwauling are everywhere, especially on the phones. The twitter bees, the Instagram grimes, the Facebook freaks. They are alive and well, but they have not been at war at the side of their icon, who is griping in detention.


It’s farewell Kanu. Welcome Obi, at least until the new priest peters out. They are at his worship. They embrace it because it does not, for the first time in years, feel like they are outside the mainstream. They are not falling foul of the law, not howling from the fringes. They have Peter Obi as their man. He is mainstream. He belongs, not to the MASSOB, or Kanu’s assembly called IPOB. They can say they have a legitimate tribe and rhetoric. They may pretend to love Nigeria. They may claim to embrace INEC, cling to a political party no one in the police or DSS will harangue.

But that is where it stops. They have transferred the temperament of their former master into the new. And they have not spared any incoherence, any lack of finesse, and threats and tantrums, any show of rabid, primitive cants, or any ululations. They have abused, cursed, thrown imprecations. They have hugged lies about their candidate. They have pelted lies about others. They have distorted material.


Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about Biafra without being accused of it. This includes intellectuals who did not show mercy to him while he reigned in Anambra as a pharisaic chief executive. It is like wearing a colour beneath another colour. Obi has become a shelter for both miscreants and activists of the crowd.

Obi knows this. He is happy to be their catharsis, to be their excuse for unfurling their bile at the system, for acting like revolutionaries. He is playing to it by acting as though he is the saint of Nigerian politics. Perhaps the purists of the Biafran cause are unhappy, and they unleashed a past video clip of Kanu on the social media. In it, Kanu lashes out at Obi as governor and stated what this essayist wrote about him over building a NEXT supermarket while still the governor of Anambra State. The video clip referred to him as a sort of sexual being on the fringe. You can imagine an Aso Rock sweltering with romps of the evil flesh. His so-called Obidients know this. But it counts for little.

They also know that this is the same Obi, whose emissaries were intercepted, while a governor at Apapa, by then police chief Marvel Akpoyibo with over 200 million cash. The matter became a cause celebre with impeachment dangling until the timid state house of assembly was on the take. This is the man they call stingy because he dared to spend on himself and his family, his wife being accused of spending N1.5 billion on tours. The man that admitted he placed Anambra money in his family account, and was not ashamed to confess when confronted. He did not follow due process. This is the man who is speaking from both sides of his mouth for maintaining an offshore account while a governor. This is Obi, who claimed he saved money, while pensioners were looking desperately at their graves.

I can excuse those who think that being stingy is good for the economy because they are looking at how they run their family and personal finances. But no economy works in history by saving money. It stifles the economy. He has not been able to tell us how he will do it, and whether he has done it. We have no landmark in Anambra State to attribute to him, no enduring legacy.

But this essayist can understand why Obi knows that the crowd that adores him will not question him. He is therefore using religion as a bait. He is now on a weekly pilgrimage to churches. Jonathan did the same. The pastors, ever opportunistic, see him as a darling. He is visiting a sectional hue of pews. This is the man who divided the church in Anambra State in his time between Catholics and the others. He is trying to push himself as the Christian candidate of the south while his messengers foul the air with sanctimonious growl about Muslim-Muslim ticket. I am sure Kanu will chuckle in his cocoon, especially when he contemplates what he alleges as his sinful romps in hotels.

There is a divide here. He is pushing himself as a southern candidate. His core followers are advancing him as the Igbo candidate. But how do we reconcile the Biafran with an Obi, who even MASSOB, has denied has anything to do with them? Obi is taking a Machiavellian attitude to the matter. If Biafran impulse will propel him, he will take it. The Biafrans on board believe Obi is their best revenge on the Nigerian state. They can take over the zoo by acting as members of the zoo.

But this psychology is nothing new. The private man and public man may not always cohere. In their huts, they are Biafrans. On the frontlines of battle, they are Obi. It is like Mr. Mani in A.B. Yehoshua’s novel who calls himself a Jew but does not believe in Jehovah. He embraces the culture but renounces its mystery. One of 20th century’s top philosophers, Hannah Arendt, obsesses over this schizophrenia in his opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism. The Obi followers accept Biafra but reject Nigeria. They abandon the mystic of the cause, Nnamdi Kanu, and have followed Obi, its inauthentic saint. It is the pragmatism of the cause. Kanu is the unarmed prophet, sulking behind bars. Obi is out in the open, a bird in hand. Machiavelli warned against the unarmed prophet, who fights without power. Elijah was armed against his foes. So was Jesus until he was crucified. They see Obi as armed with electoral quest. It is their own version of the Trojan War. Obi is the Greek Gift that they will ride in the battle for conquest.

They have now evangelised others from outside the southeast to give a regional legitimacy to their cause. They call themselves Obidients but they obey only one call: the sound of the east. Those in south-south have been seduced as by the cooing of Obi’s voice as by evangelism of the Biafrans. Mind you, they have not abandoned Kanu. But their icon has no power for now. Obi is like Zik, Kanu like Ojukwu. One is a flair, the other a flare.

While Obi hops from church to church and beclouds the hypocrisy among political pastors, the nation watches as his sectional army taunts and harangues others. But Obi will do nothing to restrain his rabble because he knows they are doing a good job in keeping the faithful within their own bubble where they reinforce their own self-delusions. That will last until their last call at the polls. This is not the time to properly interrogate in details the false intimations of Obi’s agenda and hypocrisies. But it is safe to say one thing. Before he peters out and hurtles towards an electoral Obi*tuary, the country knows the content of the crowd and its origin. They are a caterwauling group trying to seduce, without much success, those outside its ethno-religious tent.



https://thenationonlineng.net/Obi/

Sam, this issue is quite controversial

Macsjebs:
So here we have it, your mods, feel free to add yours

correction OP, Lalasticlala studied Public Administration.
Ishilove and humbledbygrace were the best back then.
presently, lalasticlala is the best.

elpochas:
thanks

A qualified chef needed in Bonjour meals eatery, 202 old refinery road opposite RSTV, Elelenwo.

kahal29:
https://www.thecable.ng/sule-lamido-to-wike-stop-complaining-about-pdp-primary-be-like-osinbajo-amaechi/amp

Lamido is right, wine should calm down.

petra1:
“ Bible talk say do me i do you God no vex”

Another one is : "first to do e no dey pain "
this claim supports retaliation and revenge.

pocohantas:
Help me ask him. It started far back in 2017!! He started with Ericsmith, anslem01, anslem02, anslem03, anslem04, jornwhite, youwanbanme, reddtintonblack, then kayperry.

He keeps changing monickers and it would look like I am fighting numerous persons. Whereas it is one being that has dedicated his existence to a supposedly old witch. If you tell him to learn a skill now, in 1 month he would stop showing up at his oga’s shop. But he has been consistently trolling me for 5 years. Mumu man!!

Really?
trolling you for 5 years.
what an obsession.

JBambo127:
YOU ARE NOW BEGGING FOR DEVELOPMENT THAT OUGHT TO BE YOURS BY RIGHT

MAKE UNA STOP JUJU UNA NOR DEY HEAR

UNA DON KILL ALL UNA CHILDREN, DESTROY THEIR LIVES SPIRITUALLY, UNA FAME DON BROADCAST NOW EVERYBODY DEY RUN FROM UNA.

UNA CHOOSE TO BE IN DARKNESS. AS KEFEE SAY O...O..HOYIN


MAKE UNA DEY USE JUJU DEY SCATTER UNA BROTHER AND SISTERS CHILDREN BECAUSE UNA GET SPIRITUAL I.Q


THE WHOLE WORLD DEY MOVE FORWARD, UNA REMAIN FOR 1880.


E GO CLEAR FOR UNA EYES



UNA NEVER SEE ANYTHING. UNA THINK SAY CORPORATE BODIES NO SABI THESE THINGS ?



MAKE UNA REMAIN FOR DARKNESS. MTCHEEEW

Are Ughelli people fetish as you post?
this your post is so funny

vicdom:
https://www.channelstv.com/2022/07/30/babachir-lawal-dogara-meet-with-indispensable-wike-for-inclusive-nigeria/

Nyerishi is a strategic politician, ignore him at your own peril.

TrendHQ:
Lecturer Resorts To Hawking Potatoes To Survive In Uyo

A Nigerian lecturer Christiana Chundung, has opened up on how she ventured into the sale of potatoes in a bid to make ends meet.

The woman who was employed a year ago said she began plying the trade due to the lingering strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

She is a lecturer in the department of development communication, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University of Uyo.

Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent newspaper, Christiana declared her intention to continue selling potatoes for the next five years if that would be her sacrifice for the nation’s educational system to function effectively.

SEE PHOTOS

https://www.trendhq.com.ng/viral-post/lecturer-resorts-to-hawking-potatoes-to-survive-in-uyo/

Echoes of hard times.
Her plan B is Entrepreneurship

@bellina715 A female cashier needed at Kel technologies, D/line.

UDOKABESTLUV:
Previous thread: https://www.nairaland.com/7253139/yahoo-boy-murders-girlfriend-bayelsa



https://m.facebook.com/burabarikan/videos/748603569723048/

An evil yahoo boy
what a wicked soul

UDOKABESTLUV:
The Body of a Young Woman Identified simply as Kate was found buried in her boyfriend's room at Okaka area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Friday morning, July 29, Reports.

It Was Gathered By that the deceased had been missing for days and the boyfriend identified as Joseph denied knowledge of her whereabouts.

According to Reports, family of the lady confronted him on Friday morning and demanded he must provide her dead or alive.

After much pressure, he admitted that he killed her and buried the body in a shallow grave dug in his bedroom.

The Suspect was beaten by the community and later handed over to the police from Ekeki Police Station.

See Graphic Photos And Video As Obtained By Below:

https://m.facebook.com/ezon.prezugha/videos/1263206067834425/

A life cut short by an evil Yahoo boy
What a wicked soul
so sad

Streetmovement:
Wotoporiously speaking

I stopped chyking decades ago..

I don't approach anymore..

Most babes for my streets don dey complain, they might think I'm into guys, I'm practically in my shell like a tortoise just admiring God's work sometimes...

No relationship for now so I don't see reason to chyke, if I want sex I know where to get it legitimately, booty calls all up in my phone.

All this random chyking that might not amount to anything is becoming useless for me and time consuming.

I just want to be alone chasing that paper.

Yes, that's the way now
No time for unnecessary distraction

Gistsme1:
https://www.pulse.ng/news/politics/labour-party-will-takeover-rivers-in-2023-hilda-dokubo-boasts/fcj00p2?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Ride on madam Hilda

EcoBrick:
https://punchng.com/gov-ticket-tears-delta-pdp-apart-ibori-okowa-part-ways/

E don happen
@tutudesz come and see oooo

pansophist:
I wrote this about a year ago on this thread https://www.nairaland.com/6716367/how-does-young-teenager-figure#105104589 But I think more young people have to see this. Please don't joke with your youth.

what an advice

LeeMason:
Source:https://www.facebook.com/1894769650782285/posts/pfbid03194oaf6ewAkiUoxGFUcDPUsVhgJbE2YorPKfHN3T62e7wnFLnPWw5F7gxWmWviXml/

A strategic fisherman
Nice one Binaowei

nlfpmod:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/serap-to-sue-fg-gov-udom-over-sentence-of-human-rights-lawyer/

Previous thread https://www.nairaland.com/7249505/judge-sends-inibehe-effiong-prison

Great move
where is that udom hypeman called Illaumoh aka Hunchogee?
Always hyping failed politicians.

Odewaleadesoye:
Source: DAILY POST

the fire have hit them finally.
if Buhari hears this story, he will be shocked.

siofra:
A man with the same principles and good looks as Thomas Sankara.


I've searched for a man like this all my life but I've been unsuccessful so far. It looks like I'll never find a man at least similar to him, with the similar ideals and way of thinking.

He doesn't necessarily have to be revolutionist but he can be a sensible social justice warrior, not the one that panders to the idiosyncrasies of the left.

In this day and age, I'm beginning to doubt a man like this exists. But if I find him, I swear not even heaven or hell will separate us.

If I never find him, I'm content to be single and old with my 48 cats or may be explore the other side of my sexuality.

Thank God he's not a Nigerian man

I am the Nigerian version of Thomas Sankara.
Oya come and pay my groom price.

Rrchrd:
Thanks bro though i've applied with 9os Nig.for some months now.

There is another job opening in Odili road area.
An accountant is needed
send CV and cover letter to jobs.bryterbrand@gmail.com with"Accountant" as the title of mail.

gees101:
just seeing this, long time dear.... how have you been

Fine Binaowei

Obio4real:
By Obio Monday


Big Brother Naija Season 7 housemate, PharmSavi have come under heavy criticism from his home state, Akwa Ibom, after he made remarks they consider derogatory and demeaning to the people of Akwa Ibom State, GRASSROOT REPORTERS reports.


One of the housemates, Phyna had said during a conversation that most Akwa Ibomites are gatemen and house-helps.


In response to what Phyna said, PharmSavi whose full name is Saviour Akpan, said that was the reason he always hide his surname 'Akpan'.


Many Akwa Ibom indigenes took to social media to register their displeasure over the comments made by Phyna and the failure of PharmSav to defend his people.


They lambasted the reality star for not being proud of his origin, vowing not to support him in the show.


A Facebook user, Imaan Mike Umoh 1 wrote:

IT IS WELL!

Phyna said Akwa Ibom people are known as gateman and house help and Akwa Ibom son PHARMSAVI couldn’t even uttered a word in defence rather he was even supporting her claims. 


The mumu PHARMSAVI of a boy, even said that he always hides his surname "Akpan " so that people won't know he's from a state of gateman and house help people.


What an insult to the entire people of Akwa Ibom State.


This is a TV show watch by millions of viewers across the world. The State ministry of information should do something about this., please.




Another user, Beauty Dasilva wrote:

Illiteracy is a curse, bbn never start PHYNA don Dey intimidate all of Una, Ogar pharmsavi may you be hidden forever from Akwa Ibom people, ebot umene �. 


Instead of you to embrace your people and even get a fan base from them, you are denying akwa ibom because you claim we are househelps and gateman, and you even hide your surname Akpan from people because you are ashamed of where you come from . you will be a houseboy in that house forever and u will leave with nylon bag out of bbn the way your Ogar madam phyna will send you out with eviction


OLODO

You won’t even last long for this statement.

Esit Anyad owod

However, another user, Fine Edohoeket pleaded that PharmSavi be forgiven.



She wrote:

He mentioned Saviour AKPAN as his name,

He is an Akwa ibom son no matter how we look at it.

Atleast he was proud to mention the Akpan.

At the point where the Edo parrot said sh!t, PharmSavi’s mood changed and I think he felt bad,


We should Please don’t judge him,

We didn’t judge Angel when she was in the house with the stories she gave on how he dad never liked Home….

I can’t remember you All judging Frank Edoho of who wants to be a millionaire when he sometimes back mentioned that he doesn’t like to be Associated with Akwa ibom cos of what an Akwa ibomite did to him before a Yoruba man helped his life to where he is,

We all know the truth about our Tribe so let’s forget sentiments,

If you have ever met Akwa ibomites outside the shores of the state and needed assistance,you will understand Better,

If you have also been in need and meet even few of the Akwa ibomites back home,you should be sincere to yourselves,

Please allow this young dude to Breath,

If you don’t like him,it’s fine but stop making post recruiting others to h@te him .


God Abeg o,

May the sins of ONNA not fall on this Boy,Amen

Source: https://www.grassrootreportersng.com/2022/07/bbnaija-akwa-ibomites-descend-on-pharmsavi-for-saying-he-hides-his-surname-akpan.html?amp=1

Inferiority complex is what pharmsavi is suffering from.

BadNews:
Bryann, one of the new housemates on BBNaija, expresses himself after noticing waist beads on Amaka, Reports.

The first day of season 7 of Big Brother Naija began with amusing moments as the new housemates got to know one another.

Bryann expressed his desire to become good friends with Amaka while hanging out with the group, pointing out the beads on her waist, Learnt.

“Me and you are going to be good friends. This waist beads wey you pack full for waist so, ashawo dey your eyes,” he said.

Meanwhile; Amaka previously admitted that she’s there to let down anyone who believes a man will win this year as well.

Before being shown the doors to the house of cameras, the vivacious woman had a brief conversation with the show’s host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, on stage.

She promised to bring a lot of vibes and energy to keep the audience entertained.

Watch The Video As Obtained By Below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgY94VqDm9d/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=0fe860a7-70b8-4b81-822a-73a134f709c9&ig_mid=986AB9CB-3FA8-422E-9A7A-8B7C6BA9B52C

Amaka will disappoint you oooo
BTW, she resembles CeeCee.

Amarabae:
Oriaku Amarachi greets you all .

As the 2023 general election draws close, even though I will not vote(no longer in the country) but I am ready to offer my support in anyway to see the emergence of the Waziri Adamawa Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the next President Of Nigeria!
Some will be asking why not Peter Obi, well
1, We are in democracy and it gives us the freedom to support whoever we want
2. Atiku together with PDP have a stronger structure ahead of the poll.
3. Atiku is from a geopolitical zone that has not produced a President before just like the South East (unlike greedy lots that wants to be President again after being President and Vice President for 16years since 23 years of democracy return)
4. Atiku has the financial warchest and connection to counter the desperate Lagos colonial master Tinubu.
If they want it dirty, we will give it to them dirty from PDP camp.

5. Atiku respects our diversity especially in terms of Religion, Agbado man thinks that its by picking a fellow muslim, e go clear from his big eyesockets ogbolo eyes.

6. Atiku is a real unifier, he will do his best to unify us to an extent, he will run an inclusive government.

7. He will bring on board the right personnels to fix the drowning economy,
He spearheaded a sound economic team during the OBJ era that helped in rearranging the economy back then, which means that he is not ignorant about the mechanism of economy.

Let me stop here!
I have nothing but encouragement to Peter Obi , I admire his braveness and yes he will make a sound president if elected but we have to face reality that making sure that APC is booted out should be a collective responsibility for all with good conscience.
Look at the high level of insecurities in the North
Look at how the naira keeps on getting weaker and weaker
Look at the high cost of food prices in the market
Look at how our limited revenue is now used to service interest on huge loans borrowed,
Where will I Start or end

APC must go!


Congratulations in advance
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar/Dr Ifeanyi Okowa

Oriaku is back.
Give us update from Oyigbo?
Are they rooting for SIM or for Tonye Cole?

Pascals09:
Sir, You're yet to reply me.

okay, post it here.

elpochas:
pls at were?my madam is a master chef.we stay at rumukurusi.Were she works her oga jst slashed their salary to peanuts nw.

Really?
Let her go to:
Tophas agency at Artillery opposite fidelity bank and register
or
Mr. Nnamdi of pattykel consult- 09075777160 at Okporo road, Artillery axis.

bellina715:
Hi,I stay around garrison and I have culinary skills please if the job offer is still open I would love to hear from you

Garrison resident.
Go to Homek consult, 60 Aba road opposite Government craft center and register with the agency.
or
visit Geomax in D/line area and register with the agency.

Rrchrd:
Am an Administrator Experience: Office Assistant, Supervisor & Porter. Qualification:office & information management

you are an Odili road resident. Then consult : mr. Uche of 9os Nigeria - 08181494494 or Padoserve limited, trans Amadi - send CV and passport to career@padoserve.com

Sirchiboy:
. Bros I am jobless too. Just relocated to ph . I stay in ada George area. I don't mind if we share my salary together when I get employed. HND computer science.

Go to Maxxia consult at 27b Ada George road and register with the agency or Go to Homek consult