The political philosophy that brought Nigeria into being was meant to work against the idea of a collective national agenda.
‘Nigeria’ is the name that was given to the place that is home to some 200 million people.
By the spirit and manner Nigeria was founded, it had no greater or loftier intentions than to serve the purposes of the colonial mandate that founded it.
Anyone who has right leadership qualifications to lead Nigeria could simply fall victim to its narrow configurations.
Peter Obi could be one of such victims.
Managers of Nigeria and those who hold the puppet strings have sets of criteria they want to see in a possible Nigeria president.
The person must be seen to be loyal to the charter that Nigeria was founded upon.
This is the unfortunate situation where the round peg meets a concrete wall.
It would be narrow viewpoint to thrust peter Obi forward as a presidential candidate based on his being Igbo. This is what Nigeria wants.
Can a good candidate not leap out from the trap of party zoning onto the nation’s mainstream? We hold the myth that candidates must rally the northern electorates to find their pitch. This was how Nigeria was designed. On a fickle assumption that power belongs to a certain anointed tribe.
Nigeria cuts people to size to fit them into squirrel cages, small enough to squeeze a giant into a tiny glow worm, and this happens not just in metaphorical terms, but real terms. As intelligent as we are, Nigeria has made many of our giant minds to think and relate on the mundane logic of tribe.
Peter Obi could become a ghastly victim of tribe and massive collateral damage of Nigeria’ social and political philosophies.
Peter Obi’ credentials present him as the face of a new Nigeria political leadership. He has ceased to wear the tag of our national stereotype. He finds his political and personal definitions within the realm of a universal benchmark. Excellence whether it’s found in leadership or in human intellect is not a prisoner in any guise. Excellence is a global citizen!
Peter obi’ character and pitch off and on the camera are a solid leadership advantage. He has good knowledge of the economy and grasp of the dynamics of global matters.
He is focused and seem like one that won’t be lured to the trappings of power and the incentives to self-corruption. He has candour and is imaginative.
The 2023 election is not a test for the candidates because we already know every one of them waiting on the gun. We know what they well worth, their innate capacities. We know the good and bad ones.
The test is about Nigeria and us, the ordinary citizens whose sense of logic and independent choices have been trammelled, totally abused, and left with little or no uses.
It’s the test of our national character.
Its possible peter Obi is emerging at such a time when Nigeria isn’t ready for him. Nigeria itself is still on the puppeteering strings, drawn on by a master somewhere.
Let us assume for a moment that Nigeria is a sane place, and we weren’t clobbered into the insanity of tribe and other narrow considerations who will not vote peter obi to lead Nigeria?
