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Jul 31 8 tweets 2 min read
We Took The Advice; Yet. . . 🤷‍♀️

1./ When motivational speakers say; “Do things differently if you want a different result.” People cheer them and nod sagely at their excellent advice.

Now that Nigeria is on the brink and PO is running a different campaign;
2./ and his followers are doing things differently, naysayers (some of them popular motivational speakers and proponents of the “do things differently” school of thought are now full of reasons why deviating from the familiar methods is evidence that PO won’t win.
3./ It’s either; “PO is only popular on SM.”

Debunked.

Or “He lacks structures.”

PO followers are now building themselves into structure cells.

Then they ask; “Who’s the LP Senatorial candidate for your zone? Who’s the LP HOR candidate? Who’s the LP LGA candidate?”
4./ The implication is that if you don’t know or have those candidates, PO cannot win.

Naysayers miss the point. PO is a symbol of the possibility of freedom for us. LP is the vehicle on which our hope rides.
5./ When these questions are asked to douse the hopes and aspirations of all who dare to believe that Peter Obi can win. These questions strengthen the dream and become ideas to be explored as we work towards realisation.

No one can predict the winner.
6./ But we can have the audacity of hope and do our best to make that hope a reality.

For many of us rooting for PO, we’re doing so, not because he’s perfect; (Yes! we know he isn’t. But even though! Regardless upon still!)
7./ BUT he’s head and shoulders above the other options and we need Nigeria to work even if we have options beyond her shores.

Nigeria needs to work. We will do our best. When our children and grandchildren are taught history in future, God willing,
8./ we will tell them we were in the number of those who decided to #TakeBackNaija

God bless Nigeria.

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