By Tony Eluemunor
Keep the faith with the sorry saying that: ”All things that are bright and beautifuls Nigeria kills them all,” we members of the wasted and wasting generations (age 40 and above) are busy demeaning the only hope that Nigeria could ever hope to get it right as a good nation.
Nigeria is right now on the verge of a right thing. never lucky, Nigeria is hosting a new political and nationalistic and developmental Mojo; that magical phenomenon of Nigerian youth rising up to sieze control of the political space and lead from the front, instead of following behind their fathers and mothers. Mojo? It is a slang for a magic charm, talisman or spell or magical power or supernatural influence or lucks.
Nigeria has so failed and traumatized her youth that that segment of the citizenry should be totally alienated. But, here comes the young ones are rising up to embrace and remake their fatherland. The political interest they have shown in the up-coming 2023 election is out of this world, and could only have come from Nigeria, a country that breaks all the rules and regulations.
Instead of studying and understanding the youths, members of the wasted and wasting generations are insulting them by calling them all sorts of derogatory names and demonize them as something else, illusory idiots and worst still, Biafran war mongers. Foolishly, the Obidients have been mis-tagged. The politician and businessman called, Mr. Peter Obi does not own and control the Obidients.
The Obidients own him and could repudiate him anytime. What we are seeing goes beyond mere political support for Peter Obi. It approaches an inbueing of the dreams of a new generation of Nigerians on a person. No, I will take that back, it was not just imbued on Mr. Obi, it is actually being forced on him. He is not a young man and so does not belong to the generation that has adopted him. It is a strange political marriage.