Bayo Onanuga, an aide to President Tinubu, has disclosed that Peter Obi ought to be held accountable for the chaos in Nigeria and has exposed Obidients, the supporters of Peter Obi, as the masterminds of the upcoming nationwide protests in that country.
Do not be deceived; those arranging the planned nationwide protests are sympathizers with Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s unsuccessful presidential candidate. And he should be held responsible for whatever crisis emanates from the action.
The leaders of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, also encouraged the protest organizers to organize the violent ENDSARS demonstration in Nigeria in October 2020. ENDSARS began as a genuine protest by youths against the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, notorious for its high-handedness. IPOB members planning to extricate the South East region from Nigeria infiltrated the protest and hijacked it for their own agenda. Lagos still bears the scar of the malicious destruction by IPOB elements until today.
Two years after ENDSARS, the IPOB and the gullible innocents joined the Labour Party in 2022 to support Peter Obi, a sympathiser of their cause.
They are the people spreading the hashtags ‘EndBad Governance’,’Tinubu Must Go,’ and ‘Revolution2024’. They are not democrats but anarchists. Because their Messiah, Peter Obi, lost the 2023 election for President, they are trying to use propaganda to expose our people. As bad losers, they don’t have the patience to wait for another election in 2027; they would rather destabilise Nigeria by staging a civilian coup against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
If they understand the meaning of their hashtags, they will realise they are clarion calls for treason. Wanting to end an elected government is high treason. Wanting revolution is a call for a coup d’etat, which is also high treason.
I have been on the trail of one of the protest planners, who is nameless but claims to have an internet radio station, PTM100.88 Abuja. The anonymous person joined X in August 2022 and has 520 followers today, among whom are FS Yusuf, another rabid Obi supporter, and Professor Pat Utomi, a Labour Party chief and a guy on X who goes by the pseudonym Peter Obi’s First Son. PTM’s profile image has someone holding the inscription Certificate Forger Not My President, ‘with a photo of Peter Obi as an inset. Only Obi’s supporters will be talking about certificate forgery long after the Supreme Court dismissed the allegation.
In the past 24 hours, this faceless X user has been whipping up the gullible to join the protest being planned and also posting the activities of his Messiah, Peter Obi. He retweets Peter Obi often.
In one of the posts, a video shows a teenager, who is said to be in the North, printing T-shirts emblazoned with “EndBadGovernance in Nigeria 2024’.
A frustrated and unsuccessful politician from Lagos named Babatunde Gbadamosi also retweeted one of the posts. In it, he refers to his earlier post urging people ” to identify APC members, sponsors, supporters, enablers, thugs, promoters, and appointees.” The police and DSS ought to have arrested the man for making a brazen thr at to political opponents.
There is “General Oluchi,” a woman who goes by the screen name
“A Field Marshall of the Han Dynasty.”
She has been sending out letters of mobilisation. She even pinned a “Week 6” letter urging Nigerians to wake up and take control of their country, using the language of IPOB, Peter Obi, and his supporters.
Another member of the malcontents is Brother Bernard, also known as Mikael C. Bernard. He is not based in Nigeria because he was once busted over Binance and fraudulent crypto businesses in Nigeria. Bernard was the man who once wrote that the naira should go down to zero.
In a reaction to Oluchi, he said the protesters should remove the increase in salaries for the armed forces as part of their demands.
“If they want an increment in salary, let them launch their own protest. It is not our job to fight for enablers of evil”, he wrote on Х.
According to our law, men of the armed forces don’t protest, an X user reminded him. He posted a sarcastic response: ‘By law, they can slap people wearing cams ( camouflage) and shoot at protesters ba?”
Security personnel ought to be questioning these agents of destabilization by now. There is no country in the world where people are not going through some economic challenges and where the cost of living is not a major issue. No country is immune from economic turbulence at the moment. Civilised and democratic people wait for another election to make leadership changes.They do not instigate unpredictably violent protests to quell chaos in their nations.
When considering whether or not to participate in the protests organized by the Labour Party and supporters of IPOB, Nigerians must take the government’s stance on the crisis of high living costs into account.
The Tinubu government has not been found wanting in this regard. The minimum wage has been increased by more than 100 percent. Loans are being disbursed to students in tertiary schools.
A credit corporation has been launched to promote consumption credit. Palliative measures are being implemented, such as the most recent delivery of 740 trucks full of rice to Abuja, the 36 states, and other areas.
Enterprises like pharmaceutical companies are receiving support. The Federal and state governments are investing heavily in agriculture to produce more food.
The national debt has decreased in US dollars, the economy is getting better, inflation is decreasing, and the FIRS has raised revenue generation to all-time highs. Investors are coming back to our country. Our stock market is the best in the world, with a 33 percent return on investment.
President Tinubu has a four-year mandate to run his agenda.
Those who are calling for protests ought to hold off on choosing their Messiah, Mr. Peter Obi, or re-electing him until 2027.
