I got a call earlier that I have to be in Lagos in the next 4 hours for an urgent business meeting. I cleared my schedule and logged on to airline websites to purchase an airplane ticket from Abuja to Lagos. I was shocked to my bone marrow to see an economy ticket price to be at the rate of N120k while a business class ticket is at the rate of N180k. 

I quickly called an airline agent who used to make ticket reservations and bookings for me to enquire why that outrageous price because I know that the recent “usual” price for an economy ticket ranges from N80-100k and I was told that it was because it’s “rush hour or dye minute booking”. 

This is when it hit me so hard that the Nigerian economy has become totally shitty and is really going down the drain. I never imagined that the price of an economy ticket in Nigeria would be over 100k. I remember just a few years back when flight tickets used to be N10k, then it went up to 15k-20k. Just in February this year, I purchased an Airpeace economy ticket from Abuja to Lagos for N23k. 

Most times when you complain about the current cost of airplane tickets some children of doom will be quick to ask you to use the road instead. Like really? Use the road and risk getting kidnapped to end up raising N100m for ransom, that is if you are lucky to be kept alive by your abductors. 

No matter how rich you are in Nigeria I’m sure that you are already feeling the harshness of the economic reality and if you are yet to feel it, I’m not a prophet of doom but I can boldly prophesy to you with my two eyes open that it will get to you soon. Just soon. No matter how much you make or earn you will surely feel it. Imagine paying over 100k for a one-leg ticket to travel and go and do a job and pay another N100k to go back home. 

The bigger problem is individual earnings; the minimum wage is yet to be adjusted to accommodate this recent hike in the prices of items in the market. Not just airlines are hiking their flight prices, the cost of food in the market is also outrageous; all the restaurants and supermarkets I patronize in Abuja also hiked the price of their items. 

Is Nigeria really working for anybody at this point in time? 

Is Nigeria working for you? Are you having a good time?

Is anybody really having a smooth sail in Nigeria currently? 

Are those praise singers that come on radios, televisions, and social media to sing praises to this government honest about the situation of things in their immediate environment, or are they hired by the government to raise propaganda in favor of the incumbent government?

I have friends and acquaintances in different trades and professions. I have doctors as friends running their own hospitals, I have business owners as friends, I have CEOs, I have civil servants as friends and sometimes I do ask each of them how they are coping and none is having a good time currently even the ones that are politicians are also complaining. 

Petrol stations also raised the price of petrol. N10k worth of fuel used to get my car tank filled up and it will last me for five days but right now, I spend N15k in getting my car tank filled up for the same car. 

Schools also raised the price of their fees. No matter how much you are earning in Nigeria at the moment you must feel the harshness of the economic reality unless you don’t want to be honest with yourself. 

It is just the economic situation that we are talking about here, we are yet to talk about the security situation, let us not even go down the education lane, health care nko?, lack of jobs, and survival of businesses, etc.  If we delve into all those topics now we may end up weeping all through the day. 

But the hope we have is that 2023 is around the corner. Another opportunity for Nigerians to decide. I’m sure everyone has suffered enough so no one needs to be preached to anymore to make a good decision with their votes. You can as well choose to vote wrong again and let us tie ourselves down with another 4 years of hardship and anguish. 

The ball is in your court. 

No matter how dismissive you are about the political movement called the “Obidient” which is the political movement borne out for the sole purpose of the emergence of Peter Obi as the next president of Nigeria you won’t deny the fact that they are taking over everywhere and they are indeed everywhere.

You don’t have to be politically involved or active in Nigeria to have heard about them or to have seen what they are doing. It is more like every Nigerian youth is now Obidient and boldly identifies with the movement. 

The word Obidient has become so famous and an everyday usage that even urban  Dictionaries provide definitions for the word. 

Most people (including me) can attest to the fact that it is now a herculean task to spell the word “Obedient” correctly without autocorrect or google suggest suggesting the correct spelling of it to be “Obidient” due to constant usage of that word. It is that serious. 

The rallies they organize are always jam-packed without Peter Obi even being present. The recent ones in Benin, Auchi, Portharcourt, Enugu, etc were massively sold out with youths chanting the name Peter Obi and with the insignias crested on their bodies, clothes, placards, walls, etc.

The chants and ovations that Peter Obi gets in public events, even in religious gatherings are always deafening. In the recent NBA conference, lawyers jumped out of the conference to chant and follow Obi around that it was the moment that nearly ended the event if not that Obi was sneaked out. 

No political party or political movement in Nigeria has ever spread like this in a short time like this Obidient movement in the history of political movements in Nigeria. Not anyone, even the political movement formed for the actualization of the independence of Nigeria in the 1950s did not enjoy the popularity and followership that the Obidient movement is enjoying today. 

This movement breached the gap and caused the coming together of all religious groups, tribes, and regions in Nigeria for the realization of one purpose and this is so amazing as it points to the fact that when there is unity of purpose there will be unity in diversity. 

This cause led the Nigerian youths who hold the record of political apathy, especially the southern youths to get fully involved in the political scenes in Nigeria as most of them have indicated interest to contest for electoral positions in their individual states under the Labour Party political platform. A youth in Delta state turned down a political appointment from the Delta State government newly with the reason that he wants to be Obidient and work for the emergence of Obi as president; this is never heard of. 

This cause led to the eradication of the Ipob militia to the barest minimum in southeastern Nigeria as most “unknown gunmen” have decided to lay down their arms and get involved in politics to effect a positive change in Nigeria. 

The way people are donating their personal properties to be used as campaign offices for the realization of this goal shows that the movement is ripe and the people are ready for political revolution and change of status quo in the Nigerian political scene. 

The joy and hope in the face of Nigerians when the name Obi or Obidient is mentioned points to the (although rebuttable) fact that Obi is the one. 

No matter how dismissive other political party members are and the false public appearance they put up that they are not scared, we only know that it is all lies and cover-ups. Each one of them is scared and worried about what may happen in the polling booths in 2023 because of the Obidient virus movements. 

Ps: this is not an endorsement but a statement of facts as the fact speaks for itself.
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