Against the foregoing perspective, pieces of evidence abound that despite the campaigns of Calumny targeted against Obi before the presidential election and after the election that “No weapon fashioned against him shall prosper”.
There is no denying the fact that Nigeria, as a country, has been misruled recklessly by members of the political class. In this regard, all the regimes that the country has had since the departure of the colonialists in 1960 are blameworthy. In spite of this, the country has produced a number of great and eminent people in all fields of human endeavor that have the capacity, or rather what it takes to salvage the situation. Without any iota of exaggeration, one of these eminent people is Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) who left a clean slate of governance as the former governor of Anambra State.
Thus, given the challenge of having good leadership, specifically a better president, young Nigerians, who say they have grown tired of older politicians, mobilized behind Obi as they considered him to be more youthful and believed in his promises to provide real solutions to their problems.
Of concern to the youths is the burgeoning population of unemployed youths. In fact, there is no denying the fact that any truly patriotic Nigerian does not need to think deeply or travel far to see that the people of Nigeria need a fresh start in the form of a healing process. The reason for the foregoing view cannot be farfetched as the economy is seemingly stagnant and the population is lethargic. Nobody in government appears to have any idea about what to do to lift well-educated Nigerians that constitutes the hospitable and youthful population who are eager to be freed from their collective lethargy.
As much as the rate of unemployment in the country has been asserted by KPMG to stand at 37.7per cent in 2022, and projected that it will further rise to 40.6 percent, due to the continuing inflow of job seekers into the job market, it is expedient to opine in this context that it is only the government that used to offer pensionable and lucrative employment, though it is not employing at the moment, it is expedient to say that the nation needs some kind of comprehensive social, political, and economic healing process. However, many factors stand in the way. First, the country does not share money like “Father Christmas”. Second, the people themselves differ on whom to heal, where to start in the history of the nation, the methods of healing, and who should lead this undertaking.
Without any iota of exaggeration, it is against the foregoing background that politicians, such as Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), individually threw their hats into the ring to contest for the position of president in the just concluded presidential election where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu as the winner, and is now the president-elect.
Considering the fact that the above political personalities meant well as they aspired to the much exalted presidential position in the bid to offer their leadership skills and sagacity toward the betterment of Nigeria, particularly as the nation is becoming increasingly divided politically, there is every need for us, as Nigerians, to be civil enough in our post-election behavior by setting the example of unity, respect, and love in our culture as our collective development of Nigeria depends on it.
Unfortunately, going by recent retrogressive development, it seems Mr. Peter Obi’s traducers are not relenting in their nefarious and mischievous efforts to scuttle his ambition to retrieve his stolen mandate.
The foregoing view can be explained from the backdrop of the participation of this writer at a recent gathering where an impromptu discussion about politics ensued, and the conversation veered in a controversial direction: First was the alleged leakage tele-conversation between Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the LP and, and his arrest United Kingdom, over alleged impersonation among other controversial issues that he was been dragged into by his traducers.
One of the discussants at the gathering asked the others where they stood politically concerning the alleged pull-him-down moves being orchestrated to criminalize Obi so he could better understand where everyone was coming from. “Oh boy, here we go”, I thought to myself. One by one, each participant shared their perspective, ranging from further calumniating his person and condemning the barrage of campaigns of calumny that was aimed at demeaning his political ratings.
While we shared diverse commonalities in our views about the unfair calumniation being meted to Obi, and the attempt to incriminate him, particularly since he was robbed of his victory in the last presidential election, there were enough differences to spark debate, wherein a pastor among us dismissed the calumniating efforts, saying that he will be vindicated in the baseless allegations being made against him.
Unarguably to buttress his proselytization, he made reference to Isaiah chapter 54 verse 17 which says, “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord”.
In his explanation, he said, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper,” meant that God promises the people of Jerusalem that no enemy will be able to produce successful weapons against them, and clarified that the word prosper means “succeed.” He added that the previous verse says, “See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc” (Isaiah 54:16). According to him, “In other words, God is in charge. He created the one who creates the weapons, and He will see to it that whatever weapons are wielded by Israel’s enemies would be ineffective against them. This promise will see its ultimate fulfillment in the millennial kingdom of Christ”, and advised that for proper understanding we should see Isaiah 51.
Without resorting to over-flogging the manifestation of the foregoing scriptural injunction in the life of Peter Obi, it is expedient to say that right from the time he decamped from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the Labour Party (LP) which was unarguably not popular in the electoral reckoning of not a few Nigerians, he literarily became the target of calumniators of his political opponents, majorly constituted by his kinsmen as they for no reason embarked on a campaign of calumny to de-market him in his presidential race that he was recently cheated him by somewhat board of directors of “Nigeria Plc”.
Ostensibly for making moves to challenge the results of the recently concluded presidential election at the court, there is no denying the fact that he is being haunted by his political traducers for having the effrontery to do that. Allegedly as a result of his intention to challenge the victory of his opponent at the court, he is already being witch-hunted so much that his telephone conversations are been monitored, while his identity seems to have dubiously been duplicated as he was recently arrested in London, United Kingdom, over alleged impersonation.
At this juncture, it is expedient to say that in as much as everyone had his say in the discussion that the angle that truly resonated even up to the time of writing this piece is the Unarguably reference to Isaiah chapter 54 verse 17 made by one of the discussants, and which says, “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord”.
Against the foregoing perspective, pieces of evidence abound that despite the campaigns of Calumny targeted against Obi before the presidential election and after the election that “No weapon fashioned against him shall prosper”.