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Sam Omatseye: The danger of a cheap, noxious liar
The Peter Obi “Obi-dient” movement continues to perplex and alarm the political structures
and persona who have become comfortable in their assurance that their will, not the
people’s will, truly matters in deciding the fate of Nigeria’s 200 million citizens.
Over the relatively short period of six months, while a minority have quietly acknowledged
the inevitability of a permanently changed landscape, the majority have gone from a
laughing dismissal of Peter Obi’s candidacy to a sneering contemptuous denigration of the
upstart movement that has embraced his candidacy, and now to the dangerous, snarling of
rabid dogs threatened by a shadow that portends change. Twisted, grotesque and repulsive
in their public posturing, the faces of Nigeria’s one-time champions are a sad reflection of
the condition in which they have put an entire country, condemning generations of its youth
to a desolate, hopeless, and humiliating future. Sam Oritsetimeyin Omatseye is a particularly
odious pack member of this rabid breed who in the past 30 years has shown a deep hatred
for anyone from a particular section of Nigeria – from Chinua Achebe to Peter Obi.
The citizens in the Obi-dient movement – youths and their elders, North, South, East and
West, Moslem, Christian and other faiths – all have stood by and watched, year after year,
how governments in Nigeria have destroyed their country, and are saying, “Enough is
Enough”. These young people are in a fight for their lives and cannot be distracted by the
corrupt puffery of a compromised journalist.
Unlike Sam Oritsetimeyin Omatseye and his drug dealing and Alpha Beta looting, flank-
sponsors of terrorism in the North East and North West, these Nigerian youths love Nigeria
enough to choose to take it back from those who continue to rape and pillage her
resources. In an affirmation of their Love of Country, these youths went out of their way to
recruit for themselves someone who represents their picture of a desired future for their
country, in the person of Peter Obi. To put their money where their mouth is, these young
people are doing what has never been done in Nigeria`s political space. – using their time
and hard-earned meagre resources to create platforms and national awareness about their
chosen leader. This is Love of Country, and no amount of editorial hitjobs, or corrupt Sam
Omatseye and other haters of Nigeria will dissuade them from their laser focused
determination to GET IT RIGHT, THIS TIME.
In fact, going forward, the label for Sam Oritsetimeyin Omatseye and his co-travellers in the
media and propaganda space will be DISTRACTION.The ground swell of nationalistic
outpouring for Peter Obi is unfathomable and rankles the senses of the likes of Sam
Omatseye. He would rather that his “journalism” sponsors were the beneficiaries of the
movement but the Nigerian youth cannot give that to him and his principals. He has not
earned it. . The universal law of compensation will not reward those who have criminally
appropriated Nigeria`s commonwealth for personal aggrandisement. The Nigerian youth of
today cannot forget those who ordered for the massacre of their compatriots on 20-10-
2020, a day of infamy in Nigeria
Sam Omatseye says the Nigerian youths who recruited Peter Obi are “incoherent, lack
finesse, full of threats and tantrums, show rabid primitiveness and are cursed, etc.” Coming
from a bottom-feeding worm, one is not surprised because he is channeling the contempt
and utter disdain in which the corrupt establishment holds the ‘lazy’ Nigerian youth.
Sam Omatseye says Peter Obi appears to be going mainstream in national politics. Yes.
Peter Obi is going mainstream because the pain of the Nigerian youth is MAINSTREAM to
the individual youth. This is the same pain that is shamelessly ignored by Sam Omatseye`s
“mainstream” political leaders, the pains of unemployment, poverty, insecurity, and the
worst economy in the history of Nigeria under an APC government – sponsored by Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, Sam Omatseye`s principal and benefator.
These Nigerian youths recently participated in a 27-hour, non-stop event to share how they
have suffered in the hands of Nigeria’s mainstream politicians. Grown men and women,
numbering over 130 thousand, told personal stories of losses on account of these criminals
in government who have been egged on by the likes of Sam Omatseye. They wept,
sobbed, and consoled one another in what can be deemed a moment of cartharsis and
recognition of how low the country has sunk in dehumanising its citizens This moment
reinforced their belief to TAKE BACK THEIR COUNTRY and zeroed their gaze on a leader for
the fight back – Peter Obi.
In the recent past Sam Omatseye and his tribe of poor quality propagandists have been
twisting in knots and in cacophonous babble of noises about the choice of the youth for
their cause. They started with “Peter Obi cannot get Northern votes”. That failed. Next was
“Peter Obi doesn’t have structure”. That one failed spectacularly when Nigerians started
donating whole story buildings, flats, and shops for party offices in cities, local government
areas and wards-from Sokoto to Abraka. Next, Peter Obi is invited to a church event. All of a
sudden he becomes the “Christian candidate”. That one too is failing monumentally because
many young Muslims are standing tall in support of Peter Obi – in full conviction that the
Nigeria they desire is one that should be devoid of religious cleavages and ethnic
lacerations.
Indeed the most ludicrous is how they complain that Peter Obi should not be associated
with display of his African culture simply because he is Catholic!
Peter Obi has said on multiple occasions that he is not a saint. Yet he is on record as the only
governor in Nigeria that has not been invited by EFCC to explain about missing public funds
under his custody as Governor. People like Sam Omatseye and his coterie of swindlers of
our commonwealth will not applaud such stellar qualities and would rather embark on
infantile pursuits of phantom stories about intercepted monies and spending on tours. If
only they know the character of the man they are taking on. You don`t get the accolade
“Okwute” by being ordinary. Peter Obi is a real rock solid person and his choice by the youth
is not by chance.
Sadly Sam Omatseye`s principal has refused to address the matter of discrepancy in his
age, lying on INEC forms about attending St. John’s Primary School Aroloya and
Government College, Ibadan, all proven to be false. Bola Ahmend Tinubu would not attend
to allegations about drug charges in Chicago, USA and the perennial fleecing of Lagos State
treasury through the siphon that is Alpha Beta Consortium. His son controls all revenue that
flows from signage advert fees in the juiciest parts of Lagos State. His daughter controls and
collects unaccounted levies at all the retail markets in Lagos. His wife was fraudulently
installed as a senator and has variously threatened to deal with women who challenged
her. The odiousness in the Sam Omatseye neck of the Lagos woods is enough to suffocate
him and that he is able to thrive under such conditions only suggests he is mired deep in the
murk that surrounds his principal, Bola Ahmend Tinubu.
Sam Omatseye is a dangerous man. His patchwork of an article was deliberately titled Obi-
tuary, a dog whistle if ever there was one. With the title Obi-tuary, Sam Omatseye is
prophesying Peter Obi`s obituary. Any watcher of Nigerian politics knows we are still asking
the question: “Who killed Funsho Williams”. If Peter Obi gets killed, Sam Omasteye and his
sponsors will be held accountable. For such a brazen act, Sam Omatseye should hide his
head in shame. Journalism indeed. What manner of journalism is this and when did
journalism in Nigeria descend to such a low level? Sam Omatseye should provide answers
to these questions!
The pitiful attempt to establish that the Peter Obi movement is sectional is a measure of
how much of an intellectual Lilliput Sam Omatseye is especially when he could not draw
the same conclusion about his principal Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the candidate of a Western
Front, or Atiku Abubakar as a candidate of a Northern Front. He forgets that Peter Obi was
vice presidential candidate in 2019 – a part of a national ticket. From Lagos to Adamawa to
Kano to Enugu and Edo, many prominent personalities have joined Labour Party largely on
account of the possibility of a new Nigeria epitomized by the vibrancy, and forthrightness of
Peter Obi.
It is the kind of propaganda work written by Sam Omatseye, replete with lies and spurious
claims that has made Nigeria the insecure society that it is. All over the country there’s
insecurity in the land, but Sam’s pitiable article made no effort to address this insecurity.
When gunmen attack entire villages in Benue State and Southern Kaduna do they ask if the
citizens support Peter Obi before they slaughter, rip babies out of womens’ wombs and
rape defenceless women? Is Sam Omasteye somehow unaware of the fact that in 2022
alone 6,698 people have died which is an average of 37 persons dying everyday? All these
deaths have happened under an APC government sponsored by Sam Omatseye`s principal,
Bola Ahmend Tinubu. Too many obituaries have been conducted since this year alone, and
Sam Omatseye is calling for more. Shame on him!
And isn’t is an irony that while Sam Omatseye and his type are threatening evil on Nigerians,
Obi-dients just want a Nigeria that works for the prosperity of all? In this existential battle for
the soul and future of Nigeria, Sam Omatseye and his like stand neck-deep in the noxious
excreta of tribalism, religious bigotry, forgery, corruption, vote-buying, yellow journalism,
hate speech, reckless lies and destiny-destroying theft of public funds. Standing resolute on
the firm high ground of values, principles, decorum, transparency, accountability, discipline,
and a love that heals and cares for our common humanity are the proud Obi-dients. Come
2023, the Nigeria we hope for will surely be freed from the shackles of enslavement to the
poverty, dysfunction, and manipulation of the masters of the rabid Sam Omatseye.
In the face of propaganda and threats, Peter Obi and Obi-dients unequivocally promise all
Nigerians a future where the economy is strong for productivity, to produce made-in-
Nigeria goods for export; where Nigerian families are empowered and pulled out of poverty;
where there is unity of purpose, trust and happiness every waking day for all Nigerians. We
all want a new Nigeria that will invest in its people, where a Stay in School Policy will be a
major plank of education, such that a four-year university program will be completed in four
years. These are the simple things that Obi-dients are asking and that is not asking for too
much.
Our people say that he whom the gods want to destroy, they first make mad, and it is a mad
man that stands in front of a moving train that is the Nigerian youths seeking a better
country. The likes of Sam Omatseye should step back and retrace their steps in pushing for
a candidate who was a part of the problem we are seeking solutions for, to now position
himself as the solution to a problem he helped create. The dog whistle that Sam Omatseye
blew with his Obi-tuary article has been noted by Obi-dients and he can be assured that he
will hear from them, in a manner he will certainly recognize as befitting of his malodourous
piece.
SIGNED: New Nigeria Network for Peter Obi
