Obi's Presidency is Possible

By Ogiri John Ogiri 

If Barack Obama could win and become the president of America at a time when many people doubted his audacity of hope against all obvious odds, then Peter Obi can become the next president of Nigeria.  

Never underestimate the power of a people who have become fed up with an unproductive and a retrogressive status quo ante. They can become the most formidable volunteer structure upon which a rejected stone can ride to become a cornerstone in the end.

 As it stands currently, except for a misguided few, many of us Nigerian youths see the aspiration of Mr Obi as a golden opportunity to take back our country from a drowning ship. I share in this belief. There have been a shipwreck and it is unfortunate to admit that Nigeria has been involved in this self-inflicted shipwreck. It therefore becomes a duty for every Nigerian of good will to work towards raising a rescue team. This rescue team is headed by Obi assisted by Datti. It is going to be a long tortuous journey involving the sacrifice of our personal comforts in the overall interest of our drowning country but it will be worth it in the end. It is not going to be easy but it sure presents us a golden opportunity to participate in the rescue of our shipwrecked country.

This is an opportunity we must all strive not to miss. This is an opportunity that may not come again for a long time if missed.

Dear Nigerians, do not write off Peter Obi's chance of electoral victory at the poll until after the election. Regardless of what paid attack dogs of the APC and the PDP tell you to the contrary, they know that the next general election is no longer going to be business as usual. Remember this as you sleep and wake every morning; that every extraordinary feat or achievement in life is at first dismissed as impossible by doubting Thomases. We do not have to blame them. They must do their jobs. 

But those of us who are familiar with farming understand that it is not the biggest yam seedling or the one with the biggest head that usually brings out the most fertile sprout. In fact, the real nature of each yam seedling is known during the rainy season; whether they will germinate well or not is known at the outset of the rainy season, not during winter.

 Nigerians now have enough reasons to vote for Obi. Skyrocketing inflation, continued closure of our universities thanks to an insensitive government, worsening insecurity, endangered national security, banditry, kidnapping for ransom, compromised security architecture, daring daylight brigandage, rising unemployment, increasing hunger, free fall of the Naira power relative to dollar, rising debt profile partly due to our unquenchable appetite for foreign made goods and services, among many other negative socio-economic realities are enough reasons to give Peter Obi a chance to attempt a rescue.

We are now faced with a critical choice among three evils but we must be wise enough to go for the lesser evil. 

Peter Obi is not a saint and has never admitted to being a saint but he is the least evil among the others.

We just need to deploy our common sense in choosing. I know common sense is like an economic commodity, it is scarce relative to claims of its abundance and demand for it. 

After all said and done, we must be confident to come to the conclusion that Obi's presidency is possible.

I am Ogiri John Ogiri and I am proudly "Obidient" from this part of Nigeria.