Thread by @AbdulMahmud01

'just read the tweet-thread of Onwuchekwa Martins. He addresses the ontology of the #Obidient movement and contextualises it. The movement is not driven by rent or the 'ism' of ideology - I've always expressed this.

For me, the movement, driven by the youths and the "common people" who reject our establishment politics that has become too elitist and insular, is ideological to the extent that is national and socially populist.

You just have to look elsewhere in our history to identify how it connects to the Zikist movement of the 1940s. And, perhaps, elsewhere in the farmers movement which birthed the Texas Peoples Party after the American civil war.

A thread connects all three movement in history: the rejection of exploitation of the poor, abetted by corrupt systems which concentrated wealth in the hands of the few. Like the Zikist movement that drew inspiration from Zik; but bigger than Zik, the #Obidient Movement

draws inspiration from Peter Obi; but it is bigger than Peter Obi.
If there's any contribution the movement is making, it is the new ground it is breaking in the people's political organisation, rethinking the roles of the youths in history, and posing justice.

No one can miss the new idea that has been so simple to discern: that a movement can be decentralised but still becomes performative as a single unit of political organisation. Or in our Age of poverty people can mobilise their small resources for collective good

If you don't learn about the possibility of a new Nigeria from the #Obidient movement, at least you can learn the new Nigerian modern liberalism that's evolving.
Good morning from the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine.