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By Peter Anosike
Former Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr Ifeanyi Chukwuka, has cautioned old Igbo politicians who are capitalizing on the political acceptability extended to Mr Peter Obi as an opportunity for cheap political popularity to desist from portraying the Obi-dient Movement as parochial, tribal and with religious inclination.
Dr Chukwuka, who called from Texas, USA, noted that the Obi-dient Movement was based on Obi’s political sagacity, ideologies and zeal to build a new Nigeria.
He stated that Obi’s acceptability by Nigerians, which cuts across the Igbo states, is beyond voting based on ethnic bloc, wondering why “these old men who were given opportunities in their prime time in Nigeria, but failed woefully are now calling for political chaos in the country.
“Nigerians should not copy the absurd politics of Donald J. Trump who after losing elections in the US, lost in all court cases in the US, including the Supreme Court, but continued till today to polarize the people of America with his continued insistence that the election was rigged in all states where he unexpectedly lost.
“Some of these politicians are known to me and I worked with some of them. Their elections in their various states were challenged by their opponents and they followed the due process by defending their election results in the court. For them to now in their old age to say that if Mr Bola Tinubu is not sworn in on May 29, 2023, there will be no Nigeria again is tantamount to criminality, absurdity and an outrageous insensibility to plights of the youths.”
He pointed out that the youths of the country want to build a new Nigeria, urging them “not to allow these disgruntled old men in their late 80s to plunge the nation into political darkness.”
He wondered “why these old men with archaic, outmoded, parochial and antiquated ideas want to destroy Nigeria before they die by their unguarded utterances?”
The ex-NOA boss, therefore, advised the youths of Anambra, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Delta, Edo, Cross Rivers, Lagos, Plateau, and Nasarawa states, as well as the FCT and, indeed, across the country to ignore the drums of war by “these men whose cerebral activities have fallen from crescendo to decrescendo levels thereby making them to speak without national unity in perspective.”
He added: “These old men are not the ones to fight should Nigeria plunge into political darkness. The only thing that is not remediable is death. Consequently, whatever are the problems emanating from the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections, could be solved by the judiciary. That is how democracy operates and not by brigand, barbarism and call for wars by these ignoble old men.
“All youths and Nigerians of all ethnic dimensions voted for Mr Obi not because he is Igbo, but because of his laudable, visionary ideas and the insistence to wipe out the old political order in Nigeria. Mr Obi’s vision of building a new Nigeria should not be truncated by these old men who are telling Nigerians now that INEC is evil because their candidate lost.
“Mr Peter Obi is a young man with a young brain at 60. He has said he would seek redress in the court and that is the wise thing to do.”
Dr Chukwuka, therefore, advised the youths to shun violence, political brigandage and not allow themselves play into the hands of the old men who are praying for chaos so they could perpetuate themselves in power.
