Thread by @firstladyship

1. There’s no denying the fact that Peter Obi is the New Poster Child of politics in Nigeria, at least in PDP & in the South. He is raising an army of woke young Nigerians who desire true change. It’ll be unwise 4 PDP to ignore this New Political Force. The dynamics have changed.

2. Grassroots in Anambra is APGA.Gubernatorial Election is APGA. But Anambra is PDP in the General Elections. So Peter Obi will always have his people solidly behind him. Now it goes without saying that Peter is no longer the featherweight, he’s grown so much since 2018.

3. Wike is too clever by half. Even Atiku loyalists understands that his 12 million votes was largely from the South. So I hope Nigerians are taking note of those not focusing on the issues? 2023 Elections is not for thugs. Demagoguery may have worked for DT but not in Nigeria.

4. Nigerians must move away from strongman mentality to emotional intelligence, empathy & technocracy. Agbero politics belong in the past, or we now agree that elections should not be issued based, but based on thuggery? Should Delegates continue to be for the highest bidder?

5. Where is the fate of Nigerians in all of these? We can all agree that this model of Democracy is faulty & there’ll be winning for Nigerians. Leadership Selection in Nigeria is horrible. Moneybag politics is just not working.

6. So a corrupt politician only need embezzle so much, so he can buy the Delegates & march to the villa, just like that? I hope Nigerians are wiser? I hope y’all will say no when it all comes down to the wire? What Wike is banking on may backfire.

7. General elections is not Rivers politics. You aren’t talking to fools. Except of course you are saying PDP Delegates are fools? Delegates can eat your money, after all, it is my oil money & it belongs to the people. But I hope they can vote for good conscience come May 28/,29?

8. Peter Obi is the only candidate running a clean Issue Based Campaign. He is almost the only candidate with his heart in the right place. He is not going about telling the Delegates to vote for him because he has invested so much money in the PDP.

9. He is not telling you to vote for him because the presidency is his birthright. Peter Obi understands what needs to be done & he is the only candidate talking tough & taking the bull by the horn.

10. The 2015 General Elections taught Nigerians a whole lot of lessons - that the future cannot be compromised or sacrificed on the altar of ego trips & strongman mentality. We should move away from such rascality & get serious.

11. Some of you may think you are wiser than us because you think you have the upper hand now, but the violence or madness that befell Nigeria in recent past will get to everybody. This is no rocket science, because the madness you support today, may end you or yours tomorrow.

12. It’s only a question of when? Karma is non-negotiable as it is uncompromising. Call it the “Nigerian Curse” if you like. Karma respects nobody. Those who sang “Sai Baba” can attest to this. Almost everyone who cheered Buhari on in 2015/2019, paid dearly for their actions.

13. Elections have consequences, we know that now. It may not be in the here & now, but there’ll be no escaping Judgement Day. Some of you resolved to reinforce failure & the shenanigans roaming the political streets of Nigeria, but we cannot all be mad at the same time.

14. Some of us still remain patriotic to motherland. We understand there is no place like home. We cannot live in the diaspora forever. China was once your present-day Nigeria. Most Chinese lived in USA & UK until the exodus back to China began.

15. China was once ruled by various warlords, even after after its 1911 Xinhai Revolution. China remained a semi colonial, semi feudal state, until 1917 when Chinese intellectuals began to move away from the Bourgeois Political Solutions of the West, to Communism.

16. China’s age-long autocratic monarchy ended in 1911. It took China over 2000 years to get it right. China fought more wars & Revolutions, more than the entire continent of Africa. At the close of the Empire, China began a long walk towards Statehood, but it didn’t come easy.

17. From its 100 Years of Humiliation or the Century of Humiliation, to the Long March to Freedom, down to the May Fourth Movement, countless Chinese people sort for solutions to China’s woes. Ruler or no ruler, China remained a semi colonial, semi feudal state.

18. Earlier on in 1840, European Capitalist Power Britain, sailed across the oceans & waged the First & Second Opium Wars on China. By the end of 1898, China had been balkanized by the West & Japan, & forced to sign many unequal treaties. It didn’t end there.

19. China ceded its ports to the European invaders in the treaties of Nanking & Tientsin, & gave up its Ligation Quarters. This was right outside the Imperial Palace. It became an exclusive zone of the foreign powers, exempt from Chinese laws & taxes.

20. To add salt to injury, China was forced to pay 10 million taels of silver each to France & Britain, & extra 2 million teals to British merchants for the destruction of property. The Empire was forced to open up its port in Shanghai & it ceded Hong Kong to Britain as well.

21. Back to Nigeria who had it so easy unlike China, your Nigerian politicians take too much for granted. Perhaps Nigeria had Independence & Democracy far too earlier? Perhaps Nigeria should have been balkanized up until the close of the 20th-Century to learn bitter lessons?

22. Journey to nationhood don’t come easy, but in Nigeria’s case, it’s a mess. 9ja is the laughing stock around the world. I have at least 3 diplomats as family friends. You need only hear the whispers in their small circle of diplomatic bureaucracy, to begin to weep for Nigeria.

23. Unlike China, Nigerian politicians are unpatriotic & shameless. Only 0.1% of them believe in Nigeria. But they are not alone in that. Every country deserves its government. Many Nigerians are accomplices in the shamelessness & hooliganism that befell my country.

24. Many are willing to continue to cheer the old guards on. Soro Soke swore to punish those who sent the army to kill us at the Lekki Tollgate. What happened? Was all the #EndSARS outrage just performative? Today, my Generation are the cheerleaders for the old incompetent guards

25. Gen Z is already a Lost Generation. I can only hope the children of Millennials (the Gen Alpha), can get it right. If they don’t, then an entire Generation of the — Silent Generation, the Baby Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z & the upcoming Gen Alpha, would have failed Nigeria..💔