News Rendezvous

Urges Obidients to Be Steadfast in Their March to Victory

Our attention has been drawn to the jumbled press statement given by the rudderless and very confused liar Victoria Shanshi about how Mobilisation/Campaign funds were shared among her cronies.

Knowing that she has been caught red handed in misappropriation and diversion of campaign/mobilisation funds she resorted to manufacturing outright lies and disseminating innuendos to deceive the Youths on how funds were disbursed.

She claimed she gave 4million to the Northern zone, 3million to the central zone and 4million to the southern zone. The same southern zone I am a member of which no one received a dime.

Shanshi math doesn’t even add up because out of 70million naira , she only gave explanation for 11million naira Which can’t even be accounted for .

Our question to her is where is the remaining 59million naira.

Shanshi received 70million naira and there is nothing to show for it.

People like us spent more than 100,000 naira to ensure that thing’s went on smoothly for our rally when Peter Obi came around last week.

We plead with our members and supporters most especially the passionate Youths who have received these untoward revelation with great shock to remain calm and await the next rally if they will repeat the same unethical act again and appropriate decisions will be taken.

The State chairman told me he was only given a ridiculous amount of 200,000 to settle all security agencies on ground that day, from police to NSCDC , DSS and so on. That alone can comprises the security of our Presidential candidate with the peanut given to the security agencies while some people POCKETED a whooping 70million naira.

Shanshi came to power with big lies about social security for the people .

But the socialist woman is reportedly found to have diverted campaign funds meant to mobilize for social change.

The claim that mobilisation/campaign funds started dropping after the rally it was meant to serve purpose for is nothing but a face saving fabricated lie by Shanshi and her evil cronies.

Shanshi attempt in the said statement to justify her misappropriation of campaign funds failed abysmally.

Rather than apologize for this act of stealing she resorts to tendentious rationalisation. Shanshi is a notorious liar and she has done so much damage to this campaign but that will not discourage the Youths from ensuring that the movement is sustained for the actualisation of a new leadership and a new Nigeria.

Never in the history of Nigerian politics has anyone rattled the establishment and old brigade politicians as HE Peter Obi has done to them. Also, never has any presidential candidate so enthused the Nigerian youths that they are ready to fight and die for him. Although, in reality it is their own future, which Peter Obi-Datti embodies that the youths are fighting for. As the February 25th election draws nearer, Nigerian youths should muster all the energy they can to give the last decisive push through PVC revolution to displace the old order.

Should they fail, just because some of them fail to realize that the last straw to break the back of these old brigade politicians is our PVC, hence the need to hurry to pick up your PVC and use it on 25th February, the old brigades will survive and they will mutate into more dangerous political viruses that will expunge from the political sphere, anyone and anything with the semblance of Peter Obi and his brand of politics. The avoidable consequence will be that Nigerian youths will have to wait for another five decades or more before they can have another Peter Obi, to try and take back their country. So, the time to act is NOW! This is why Obi-Datti and the Nigerian Youths Must Prevail.

Suddenly they have become afraid of us after calling us “lazy Nigerian youths”.

Just when we were in despair that the entertainment-loving youths would never step up and stand up for their country, the unthinkable happened in October of 2020 as they rose from their deep slumber in unison and with one voice, embarked on one of the biggest pro-Nigeria, pro-people and anti-government protests in the annals of our much beleaguered country. It was an amazing spectacle to see young people from the south engage in the politics of the country – the downside being that northern youths were not on the same page with them.

Yes! We youths had woken up and have shown that twe are averse to going back to sleep. We will now fight the fight our parents refused to fight for us. It is a fight that we must win or go down fighting. It is the final battle for the soul of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And it is a fight that must inspire a new Nigeria.

Yes! Our thieving and roguish politicians and elites never reckoned with us. That is why they never truly invested in us except when they had need of our youthful energy in the perpetration of crime, mischief and havoc. We have been useful to them all these years in the unwholesome acts of electoral fraud and intimidation of voters as well as murder of political opponents.

While some of us have seen the light and are struggling to change the narratives and the trajectory of our country, others have continued to walk in the dark and have remained under the thumbs and control of their traducers and pay masters. Some of them have branched out into insurgency, banditry, unknown government – all, anti-social activities for which they will pay the price at the appointed time. It is a fact of life that nothing lasts forever – not even evil.

In their myopia, our now thoroughly discredited political class still think that they can keep we youths down forever. It is why they denied us the education that liberates and motivates to become good citizens. Educating the citizenry will give them the capacity to ask questions about their country and governance – questions the politicians do not want to be asked.

And as the children of the political elites were sent to the best educational institutions in the world, their parents who were busy masquersfing as political leaders in Nigeria were busy spreading division and poverty in our country by their misgovernance, maladministration and their unending and unbridled looting of our treasury.

Now as a result, we are now a country of over twenty million-out-of-school children – the highest in the world and a country of extreme violence, kidnappings, death, dizzying poverty and a country in which those citizens who have the means are escaping or ‘japaing’ with their families to other saner climes.

But we all cannot run away from our country. We have become the proverbial animal that has been backed to the wall and has no other escape route except to face the frontal challenge. It is forward ever and backward never.

It is why a vast army of Nigerian youths are responding to the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo who has told them that the fate of the Nigerian nation is in their hands and that they have the numbers and energy to make the change.

It is why they believe that those who have handled political power in the country at the centre for the past twenty-two years and failed so spectacularly must not be given another chance to complete the demolition job they started on Nigeria from 1999 to date.

It is why they are on social media, arguing, rebutting, refuting, haranguing and propagating their visions, their expectations and their hope for a better Nigeria for all.

It is why they are on the streets across different states in Nigeria in their thousands preaching, rallying, crying, and praying for a Nigeria in which social and economic justice, equity, fairness, competence, national commitment and patriotism will be the hallmarks of political leadership and responsibility.

It is why we youths believe that if the PDP governments of Presidents Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and APC’s Muhammadu Buhari did not embody these critical elements and virtues of governance during their over twenty-two years in power, then they must be retired come 2023 and their suffocating stranglehold on Nigeria ceased.

It is why we believe that the politics of “We no dey give shishi” is far more valuable, far more superior and agreeable than the shameful and dehumanising politics of “stomach infrastructure”

It is why the majority of these youths are ‘Obidients.’ It is why they have embraced the Obi/Datti Labour Party platform. Because they know that in content and character these two leading lights of the Labour party are vastly different from those from the leading political parties in Nigeria. At one time or the other, they might have made incursions into the politics of Nigeria as senator and governor, but they have largely remained unsullied by the contradictions and corruption of the system.

But the #endsars generation of youths are not supporting Peter Obi and Datti Ahmed solely for their sakes. They are doing it for themselves. They are fighting for themselves. Just as the younger generation has become an instrument for the political fortunes of the Obi/Datti movement, so also have Obi and Datti become instruments for the actualisation of the political ambitions and visions of the youths for a better Nigeria. Obi and Datti cannot afford to fail them if and when the politically unthinkable happens.

If we were not afraid and ashamed to vote for Jonathan and the PDP in the first term , and we were not afraid and ashamed to do the same for Buhari and the APC, should we now be ashamed and afraid to vote for others, especially when presented with candidates with far better credentials? Besides, why would the discerning youths support those who gave the order or supported the order to the Nigerian Army to shoot at them on the night of October 2020 at the Lekki Toll Gate during the #endsars protests.

Yes! The chickens have come home to roost. The political elites have suddenly realised that the youths, if they stick largely together can make a difference in 2023 and it is a nightmare situation. They have become afraid of the power of youth anger. It is why those of the major political platforms are seeking to change and control the narrative on social media. But this is like daring the lion in its den. On social media, the younger generation is riding the frequency and airwaves in cyberspace. It is their habitat and eco-system. They are in charge 100%. It is why, out of frustration, their traducers have resorted to calling them rude and disrespectful – as if they are deserving of respect – the unconscionable renegades and enemies of our country.

May the revenge of the youths yield bountiful fruits in 2023. We all need it regardless of our religion, ethnic group and geo-political provenance.

Let me also use this opportunity to call on the stakeholders to rescue Peter Obi from those who want to sabotage our Campaign by misleading him when he came to Adamawa last week and he was told not to visit the highly revered Lamido of ADAMAWA that this time around, those manipulators must be stopped when Peter Obi visit again. Peter Obi should be led to the palace of Lamido Of Adamawa before proceeding to LCCN CONFERENCE IN DEMSA before the campaign rally should be held at Adamawa central the heart of his political supporters.

I salute my fellow Youths and their doggedness and their enduring spirit so far.

We shall overcome.

Great Adamawa youths
Great Nigeria youths

Hon Joseph Enan maigari
CPO ZONAL COORDINATOR
North East