By Kassim Afegbua.
If a person who has not entered an office offers to hold sway for a fraction of the allowable time if allowed, I would suspect his motives. Who is to taste and see now? Is it us the citizenry that are to taste Peter Obi, or is it him who desperately just needs to taste the Office of the President of Nigeria? Obi’s desperation for power, has brought up his latest bromide. For him to offer to spend only four years in office if allowed is suggestive of political radiculopathy; heโs taken to a baby deceit, that amounts to an insult on us all just to be able to taste the office. He assumes that we are credulous and thus cannot even be bothered to come up with something a little labyrinthine to enable us still give credit to our wits by dayโs end. Heโs planning on playing the all too familiar game where, once he gets in, his political urchins will play up the South-East dirge, and question his short stay in office, and shout to the whole world that only an Igbo man would be so treated even as this would be the first time they would be honchos. Others will then join in, in the cacophony of voices pushing him to dishonor his commitment. Then he would roll out money to some of his hallelujah boys to sustain the discourse, and then pretend to be “threatened” by his folks all over the world, which he would then claim was the reason to renege on his pledge and capitulate; and that, my friends, would be Game Over! We are too familiar with such scripts, and cannot be deceived. I have repeatedly said it that Peter Obi’s politics of the “Chichidodo” has become his greatest undoing. He has now resorted to deceit- the way he deceived his people that they were moving up when he was saving their money in the bank, most probably in Fidelity Bank, to serve his interest and mental fix.
In seeking to be president, Peter Obi has played different roles in the drama script, including subservient roles.
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