PETER OBI: Gatecrashers and Opportunists

ONWUASOANYA FCC JONES.

Many political opportunists, including tested and failed lawmakers and others who ars holding different political offices at the moment, are rushing to get Labour Party ticket, and some officials of the Party, especially, their national officers in Garki 2 are making some very smart and quick kill from these desperate political opportunists.

Ask 90% of current holders of LP tickets across the federation and you shouldn’t be shocked to know that they don’t know a single thing about the Labour Party or what it stands for. These are power crazy, lousy, ideas deficient and corrupt political opportunists who are looking for any available and easy train to take them to political office. 90% of LP candidates for National Assembly and gubernatorial elections are worst than those PDP and APC candidates they tell you they want to replace.

These people will campaign on the popularity of Peter Obi, but they are stark opposites of what Peter Obi represents. But, a lot of those supporting Peter Obi will most likely vote for these individuals, especially, in the Southeast. And I will tell you why this is dangerous.

Pete Obi’s chances of winning the presidency on the LP platform is below 25%, but he will make a significant impact in the Southeast and probably take some LGAs or even some States, but, there is a high likelihood that the LP banking on his popularity might pick up a few national and State Assembly seats, especially, in the Southeast.

This scenario will greatly weaken the chances of Southeast having significant influence in the national political negotiation. Just like what happened to us in 2015, when the APC would have conceded a significant principal position to the Southeast, but we only had two members of the House of Representatives, who were first timers. Fortunately, we had a good number in the PDP, hence, we got a significant minority leadership position. If we make the mistake of voting for LP all through because Peter Obi is on the ticket, we will be putting the Southeast in a very bad political situation. We will be sending opportunists, who probably have no ideas of lawmaking nor any passion for the good of their people, to the National Assembly, and that won’t be great for our people.

One of the things I have chosen to do away with is emotionalism in politics. Politics welcomes no emotions, apart from the emotion that drives patriotism, the love for country and its people. I cannot jump into the bandwagon that will peg the Southeast further back in Nigeria’s political standing.

Peter Obi is the best in the field and he will definitely make a great President. Certainly, the best wr have had in this Fourth Republic, but he will not win the presidency. The kind of statement is the statement that places my people on a favourable political pedestal, not a statement for fun or for mere ego. We cannot continue to take up political experiments that embarrass us as a people. We cannot support political outings that reduce our bargaining powers in this Nigerian union.

We have to work hard to get it right, if not this time, but in the nearest future. We cannot continue to be the crying baby of Nigerian politics. We have to take our rightful place. If we cannot improve on the rating which the Ziks, the Ozumba Mbadiwes, the Greg Mbadiwes, the Arthur Nzeribes, the Iwuanyanwus, the Ekwuemes, the Mbazulike Amaechis placed us in, then, we have to work hard enough to at at least restore ourselves to that position. Our first most important project in the Southeast is to restore ourselves to the Nigerian power tripod. Anything short of that is a failure to this generation of political leaders.

NDIGBO FU NU UZO!