1. Let's talk about "vawulence". If you're fully for Peter Obi, but you're a bit worried that #OBIDIENTS are rude and disrespectful. Don't be. Let me explain.
If you'd rather not read a long thread -
It's not true! You've been gaslit!
A Thread.
If you'd rather not read a long thread -
It's not true! You've been gaslit!
A Thread.
2. To understand my position we must interrogate the mainstream of the camps. Even then, finding the fringe of the #obidientmovement is a task itself because they barely exist. The movement has built a remarkable positive peer pressure mechanism within a short time.
3. You hear people stepping in to stop fake news that supposedly "favour" Peter Obi with cautions like, "Please don't share this until we confirm that it is true". You'll get a price if you find this attitude in the opposing camps.
4. Instead we find a Festus Keyamo who has an alert set for one caustic Podium Reporters and pumps the lies they peddle there without filtering straight into Twitter. Sorry, he adds "value" to it by wrapping the fake news in more fake news before he lets them loose. 
5. This by the way, is the "Chief" Spokesman, of the Tinubu campaign (emphasis on CHIEF). A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, if you can believe it! A SAN who knows exactly what he is doing. Not some random guy from the streets.
6. Another major character Reno of the PDP-ish, ties PO to IPOB every 2 or 3 tweets without fail. Nevermind that the link doesn't exist; that Peter Obi has explained ad-nauseam on his position. This Reno has 4m followers on Twitter o! An actual living, breathing veteran of SM
7. Again, man knows exactly what he's doing. His sole purpose is using the emotionally charged topic to create chaos. Why do these two do it? Because there's nothing else they can hold on to against PO that is based on facts. Everyone knows how lyrical these two can wax.
8. If they had facts, they'd bomb every media, new and old, with their eloquence. The curious thing though, is that the chief peddlers of "the Obidients are rude" ilk, like Reuben Abati, have nothing to say about these actually dangerous characters.
9. While Obidients call their opponents Mikano, Agbado or BATists. Their opponents call them Obidiots, Obituary, Obidends. Obidients come from a position of satire while their opponents come from ad-hominems & charged language hovering on hate. Plus they do actual violence!
10. Obidients have a lot of material to sell their candidate. And loads of opposition research too. When Obidients call the APC candidate a drug lord, there's an actual investigative article chock full of evidence that links him to the drug trade in Chicago.
11. Should they not highlight this or his failing health out of "respect"? Please!
The PDP candidate has allegations of corruption encoded in a book by his own boss! Should Obidients not mention this out of "decorum"? I don't think so.
The PDP candidate has allegations of corruption encoded in a book by his own boss! Should Obidients not mention this out of "decorum"? I don't think so.
12. Obidients use words like "vawulence" when they call out lies or gaffes. They describe the massive turnouts of their rallies as neck-pressing. Yet they make painstaking efforts to pull people back when they strayed into areas that were beyond the pale.
13. Summary. At worst Obidients do political satire, at best they are telling the unvarnished truth. The doers of violence are not in the ranks of the Obidients. Direct your misgivings properly. As for me and my Obidient family, let the vawulence and the neck-pressing continue!
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