I first took notice of former Anambra State governor Peter Obi when one of his videos trended on social media earlier this year.

In the video, he described Nigeria as a motionless car with a knocked-out engine. Instead of fitting the immobile car with a new engine, he said, we keep changing the drivers in a forlorn effort to get the car to move.

I thought it was the profoundest metaphor anyone has ever conjured up to explain Nigeria’s problems.

It’s interesting that Obi is now putting himself up as another prospective driver to move a motionless car with a knocked-out engine. Perhaps, he wants to be the driver who’ll tell us that we need to change the engine.

Professor Pat Utomi also told me sometime ago that during a public lecture, Obi was inspired by and cited the widely shared column I wrote on the nexus between political power and brain damage but that Obi wrongly attributed the column to Utomi, as several people have done.

Utomi said he corrected Obi that I was the author of the article titled “How Political Power Damages the Brain—and How to Reverse it,” which was first published in the Nigerian Tribune of July 27, 2019.

That the column inspired Obi, for me, signals that he recognizes the dangers of unchecked political power and sees merit in the article's suggestion that wielders of enormous political power ensconced in the alternate reality it inspires should periodically get out of the bubbles of power to feel the pulse of everyday people and have “toe-holders” in their inner circle who “can tell them uncomfortable truths without fear of consequences.”

This is not, by any means, an endorsement of Obi's presidential bid. It’s simply an acknowledgement that Nigeria has a virile option in him.

PrinceOfLagos:
I will pick Obi over the bullion van ever corrupt lizard of bourdilon Tinubu

LeoDeKing:
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It is your electoral right to pick whoever you like, fact.

But go ahead to market your Peter Obi and stop sniffing Tinubu's farts every time, except if his fart is Peter Obi's manifesto.

Is this too difficult a task?

Frigga13:
Obi is still an Option ..

Hot cake in the North.. same with Jonathan
Everybody don tire for Apc over here in the North
Now the North wan move forward .. but Yoruba people love suffering and smiling ..

This man is terrorizing Yoruba people .. now he wan involve Obi .

Na tribal BP and cardiac arrest be this

Make I excuse them .. I no fit about

Power returns North

PrinceOfLagos:

Why is this one angry ?

Not everyone will support that already defeated and confused criminal you call Asiwaju

Asiwaju awon tani ?

Asiwaju awon werey

Frigga13:


Obi decalration has hangered them.. e shock them..

PrinceOfLagos:

Why is this one angry ?

Not everyone will support that already defeated and confused criminal you call Asiwaju

Asiwaju awon tani ?

Asiwaju awon werey

LeoDeKing:
Apparently, kperogi is desperately willing to be worshipped by ipob pigs.

The other day, he was describing PYO Osinbajo as a religious bigot, now he is svcking Peter Obi's balls.

By the time he is promoted to the status of a god, he dumps their sorry arss and move on like FFK.

Donshegxy10:
I will pick TINUBU over obi all day, all the time.

LeoDeKing:

He has been defeated, he has been dumped, he is irrelevant, he stands no chance, but you can't just survive any comment without including him.

PrinceOfLagos:

Tinubu is a political heavyweight, you can't deny that but, he over do his own politics especially in Lagos
He's very greedy and too corrupt

Tinubu won't make a good president

PrinceOfLagos:

You no lie bro

Even Seunmsg don go low key

LeoDeKing:

This is an insult to Tinubu.

Tinubu is considering heavy weight politicians who can be distant second in the race, not a rat like Peter Obi.

Donshegxy10:


i just want to make the haters feel special.

Jagaban is way bigger than all of them combined.

THE GREAT STRATEGIST.

PrinceOfLagos:
Strategist wey Buni dey flog up and down
Soon, Tinubu corrupt cases will be revisited..... Una never see anything

Donshegxy10:


i pray and hope you dont die on tinubu's matter.