Some people still think 2023 elections will be business as usual.
They have not seen anything yet.
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If many churches carry out the same exercise, Nigeria will change for the better.
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Senior Prefect shares his experience with #peterobi when he was the governor of Anambra State.
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Chi Ngo wrote:
My young mother—a schoolteacher of over 3 decades—died a few years to her retirement and about 10 months before the completion of Peter Òbí's tenure as Governor of Anambra State.
Her death was one of a totalizing pain, certifying and cementing our orphan status!
We kept mother's body in the morgue to plan for her funeral.
By the time we buried her body, Peter Òbí had just about 8 months to leave office.
Mother's fellow teachers asked me to ensure to begin the process of getting her gratuity and pensions immediately because it was a long one.
Many families, I would learn, have forgone pursuing these things especially when the children of the deceased are made, busy and are not even resident in Nigeria.
Pension officers and civil servants would simply corner the money once they are sure no one is coming for it.
I was regaled with many tales both of pessimism and fear coupled with my wondering of how I'd be traveling to Ọka, Ihiala, Ámáọbịa every now and then pursuing the stuff anytime I'm meant to.
None of my siblings would have had the time and endurance to pursue the cumbersome process from where they lived.
Again, wise colleagues of my mother warned: “Gbaa mbọ chụta ifea tupuu gọvanọ a nụnwa a pụọ.”
When I finally began the process, it was smooth and efficient though understandably hectic.
I had expected the civil servants that attended to me to be, as usual, crude, lazy and frustrating.
But they were not. No part of the process was delayed beyond the time it was scheduled to last.
They told you how long each process would last and when you'd return for the next, and never did I experience any form of “we are sorry, come next week.” I was not resident in Anambra State but I could perceive that Anambra Civil Service under Peter Òbí was unprecedentedly efficient, disciplined and humane.
A few weeks before Peter Òbí left office, mother's dues were paid and not a penny was owed.
It was like a film. I couldn't believe it. I knew fellow ụmụ ndị nkụzi/ndị nkụzi families who pursued their parents' gratuities and pensions for years but got nothing or got half of the dues.
But here was I, on behalf of my deceased mother, receiving the dues that accrued to her since she entered into the teaching profession in her early 20s.
Each time I come across Mr Peter Òbí on the several videotapes circulated across the social media talking about how he never owed anybody a dime before he left office as governor of Anambra State, I not only feel grateful to him and God but satisfied that my mother's over 30 years of toil in various schools as a young spinster, as a nursing mother, as a mother of grownup children and as a woman struggling with life and health did not go down the drain or trampled or embezzled by an unkind human person.
It was enough to assure her peaceful rest, despite the fact that she did not live to have the dues herself and do whatever she deemed fit.
I was not sure the story would have been the same if my mother retired in Imo or Abịa State Civil Service at the time, judging by the wicked tales that came and have always come from such states. Nor would it have been as smooth if it were to have been between 2014 and 2022.
Mr Peter Òbí MUST be elected by the people to preside over their affairs in the next republic for us to have some relief or we will all be crushed under Caterpillars and die painful deaths!
If you escape it, what of your mother, father, children, relatives, friends, siblings? Will you take all of these people to Canada or Europe in escape?
How long can you sustain or save them from the impending doom if the fools and glutton among us eventually allow Caterpillars to take over the ground and crush anything that exists?
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For Immediate Release, June 11, 2022
The future of the nation’s democracy is in your hands — Obi to Nigerians
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Former Governor Peter Obi, has reminded Nigerians that the future of the nation’s democracy remains in their resolve to hold unto and advance the very ideals on which a democratic nation is built.
In his Message to mark Nigeria’s 2022 Democracy Day, Obi encouraged Nigerians not to stand aloof from the journey of nation building.
He explained that for democracy to be sustained in the country, every Nigerian needs to play a part.
He reiterated how important it was for the nation to re-evaluate the leadership selection process to ensure that only most qualified and capable leaders are elected into office.
He maintained that Nigeria needs visionary leadership now, than it had ever done, owing to the level of decay in the nation’s democracy.
“Our democratic existence is continually challenged by corruption, tribal and ethnic disunity, religious tension, poverty and inequality. We must not continue to allow these vices to foster among us as a people. The Nigeria of today is obviously a far cry from the dreams of our heroes of democracy. We must, now, all join hands to build the Nigeria of our dreams.
“The nation needs a unifier, to bring back the people together and rebuild our social cohesion. We need a leader, knowledgeable enough to lift Nigerians out of poverty, invest in the critical areas of development and place the country on the path of progress, to ensure that our national democracy is sustained,” Obi said.
Obi mentioned, in particular, how important the 2023 elections are to the survival of the nation.
He encouraged Nigerians, especially youths, to be more actively involved in the electoral process by ensuring that they get their voters cards, so as not to be disenfranchised. He wished Nigerians a happy Democracy Day. ____________________________
Peter Obi: I want to be President because I want to move Nigeria from a consuming nation to a productive nation.
Osinbajo: I want to be President to consolidate on the good things this administration has started.
Tinubu: I want to be President because it’s my turn.
Atiku: I will rule my first tenure and hand over power to Igbo man.
CHOOSE Wisely!
PETER OBI: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MOVEMENT AND PARTY CAMPAIGN.
I have said this before and I will say it again and again.
Peter Obi is not running a campaign. He is leading a movement.
Let me tell you the difference in case you don't know.
1. Campaigns end as soon as the results of elections are announced. Movements continue thereafter.
2. Campaigns are driven by politicians while movements are driven by the people.
4. Campaigns are driven by interest while movements are driven by convictions
4. In Campaigns people follow a politician selfishly because they believe he/ she will win but in movements, the people follow selflessly because they believe the people will win.
5. In campaigns ,people follow a person while in a movement people follow ideology.
6. In campaigns politicians tell the people what they will do but in a movement the people know what the person they are following will do.
7. In a campaign, people who cast their vote believe they are doing a politician a favour but in a movement they know they are doing themselves a favour.
8. In a campaign, politicians build structures but in a movement the people build the structure and infact,everyone is a structure.
9. In campaigns we rely on politicians to convince us to get involved,we have people with apathy but in a movement people find motivation from within. Everyone is bold.
10. Campaigns come with a plan from day one but Movements don't. They are spontaneous. They build momentum that becomes the plan.
11. Campaigns are like T.V ads ,politicians pay to get people in but a movement is like a premiership match,the people pay to get in at their own expenses.
12. In a campaign people who oppose you or make a caricature of your campaign are usually confident but in a movement,people who oppose you or make caricature of the movement are scared of it.
PETER OBI IS A MOVEMENT. I AM PART OF THAT MOVEMENT. BE ALSO A PART OF THE MOVEMENT.
NOW IS THE TIME. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED.
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