Classic by Harry Slim Omoakhia


The Pretence Is Wearing Off!


Dear Obidients, the campaign is about to get really dirty. Brace up for impact. Here is why;
1. First, they felt Peter Obi was not serious, that he will just end up as VP as he did in 2019.


2. He started gaining momentum with calls by Supporters to make him PDP flagbearer. They decided to even humiliate him at PDP primaries.


3. He saw it and  defected to Labour Party and secured the ticket. His most strategic decision ever.  The movement gained many members, most of whom were tired of PDP and APC leadership.


4. Seeing the momentum, they first called it a social media buzz. The people supporting it have no PVCs. Then, there was a surge in PVC registration that even drew the attention of INEC to deploy machines to surge areas. It was at that moment they started to get the memo.


5.  At this stage, the plan was to discredit Peter Obi. However, it was difficult to do, because even the worst critic of the man will agree that he is a decent man. He is not a saint. He has even emphasize that he is not, but character wise, he has shown that he is indeed a decent Politician.  The only way to get to him was through his growing crowd of passionate and vocal supporters, who like other politician, have a handful of  extremists.


Their goal was emphasised on the line that "His Supporters are rude". It is simple rule in propaganda. Once you continue to say a lie and make feeble references to buttress the lie, with time, people will see as truth.  It was working!


6. The next stage was to rub  off the behaviour of his extreme supporters on him, or that it had his imprimatur.


The first task was to make him accept the tag on some of his Supporters and when he apologized , generalize it to all his supporters. The first apologies was engineered by one  frenemy acting as a  persons friend. When it became too much,  Obidients rose up and even pointed the hidden agenda of opponents using symbols of Obidients to cause issues against other tribes and religion.


7. In the Arise TV, capitalizing on those busted, Peter Obi discarded his supporters labelling. It was a big blow to the narrative formation goons who thought they were winning. It was then people like Reno ended his presence and went ballistic full scale.
He has been trying since that day to pitch North/Muslims against the movement without success. He has refused to get the memo. The Obidient movement skin is now impervious to those low grade propaganda, not when the people you suddenly love know your antecedents and see through you.


8. Conscious of the fact that the Obidients are rude tag was failing woefully, they tried the Ethnic card. They tried to link his aspiration to IPOB, even attributing the picture of another person to his son. They claim his aspiration is regional that his Supporters are IPOB  but he was not the one who said Emi Lokan. His Supporters are not the ones shouting Yoruba Ronu. Nor was he the one who said Only two States in the North East are Kanuri States.
He has maintained that nobody should support him because of his tribe or religion but because of what he can offer
His supporters are drawn across the country including the North, many have tried to make us feel are linear in thinking.


9. They tried religion but it fell flat even before they escalated it. One of the party ended up stoking Religious debate with their one way ticket. Their Supporters too have been lampooning religious leaders and organization like CAN for speaking against it. People are watching!


10. In all this, Peter Obi stood like a solid Rock, and the Obidient movement continue to penetrate the hinterlands and gain many adherents daily. Having failed in their disguise, acting as concerned Nigerians, moralists,  activists, human rights advocate, youth leaders, Influencers, they have now dropped all toga of pretence and now doing the exact thing they tried unsuccessfully to label on Peter Obi. Check their walls now; they are going full stream.
They are now campaigning with religion and tribe.