In spite of the pot shots fired at Mr peter Obi, his competitors are frightened.
First, frightened by the moral contrast his character and values provide.
At the back of the public fray that is aimed at shooting down his rising political influence, there has since been some voluntary self-scrutiny, knee-jerk ‘stop and search’ operations conducted by individual politicians, just in case there is an ‘exhibit’ yet to be found on them.
This is the kind of moral search light that must beam so brilliantly on a dark national canvas, in a way that out of self-volition we can begin to question our customary habits.
In well set up places, individuals would not necessarily emerge as fine moral champions as peter has.
Citizens are expected to be moral peers. Set in place by certain social standards.
The well-tuned bureaucracy or the civil service in developed nations initiates and sustains the moral principles and chains of values expected of public servants.
There are institutional checks and controls that help keep everyone in check. In such places people like Peter
Obi are normal people without extraordinary moral cliff.
In less developed places where institutions fail, individuals with sufficient moral verve and capacities take the places of such institutions and can now dictate the tone and trajectory of the social and political evolution of their own nations. This was the birth of peter Obi.
The question is: If one man could have this much impact on the nation’s social psyche in a short time, what about 100’, Million’ of his kind?
This is what the revolution should be about: moral replication of peter Obi, like a billion school of fishes hatched into the ocean of endless horizon. Self-enacting foot soldiers that don’t just crunch numbers to win elections but can swing the value balance within their own domains.
Its short sighted to situate the obi revolution within the 2023 political matrix of winning elections.
The millions of ‘obedient’ followers of this tsunami revolution should seek to be moral clones of peter obi…Couldn’t they really aspire to be like their Master?
If this revolution only took peter obi to the throne and we sat back on the ashes of our moral rot..there was never a revolution.
‘It’s enough for a disciple to be like his Master’-Mattew 10: 25.
This is how a nation is transformed: by the agency of its Obedient people.
