The government demolished about 2,300 shops, including 5 plazas in Fegge, Onitsha. Peter Obi was perhaps not in town to marshal an army of “activists” to storm the streets in protest.

18TH OF AUGUST, 2024 - ABIA

- The Abia State government leveled hundreds of structures on Government College, Umuahia land, in what was its second phase of demolition within the same year. Peter Obi, perhaps bedridden, could not summon his battalion of “patriots” to confront the state.

7TH OF FEBRUARY, 2025 - ANAMBRA

- The Anambra State government once again pulled down swathes of buildings in Onitsha (Nkisi area and neighboring localities), including massive structures straddling a canal path in Enekwasumpu. Peter Obi, perhaps on self-imposed exile, and unable to assemble his “advocates” to lift a placard.

14TH OF JULY, 2025 - IMO

- The Imo State government demolished a state-of-the-art, ₦2.2 Billion commercial plaza at Naze Junction, Owerri North. Peter Obi, perhaps “menstruating, could not summon the energy to rally his self-acclaimed “unionists” against the bulldozers.

I lay out these chronicles for one reason: to establish the truth that:

1. Routine demolitions are not peculiar to Lagos. They are neither strange nor unprecedented. Governments wield the wrecking ball for many reasons, chiefly when structures violate laws or encroach on public utility. Above are sufficient examples of such activities even in Peter's backyard.

2. Peter Obi himself has worn the glove of demolition. As governor, he supervised the pulling down of buildings - structures that may well have belonged to people of diverse ethnic stocks - and he likely had sound justifications for doing so. Yet the earth did not quake, no kinsman raised a war cry, no ethnic card was played.

So, again, I ask: Why Lagos? Why now? Why the tribal trumpet when silence was golden elsewhere?

3. Suppose, for the sake of argument, Obi was right to be displeased. Then what should a true leader have done? Lead a balanced delegation - Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, all united - to the Governor’s table or the appropriate Commissioner. Demand clarity. Seek justification with dignity. That is the way of statesmen.


But no! Not Fraud Ibn 3rd, he must play the minstrel of division, fanning embers of anarchy, dancing to the drumbeat of bigotry. For if he does not pander, who will?

Now, Behold the Irony: IPOB terrorizes the Southeast, bleeding the land, grounding commerce, and forcing Peter’s own kinsmen to abandon Mondays - the very liver of trade. Yet in such grave crises, Obi is silent. Why mute when his people bleed, but loud when there is an ethnic card to play? Why neglect his own, only to parade them when it suits a divisive agenda? Obi hates Ndigbo, I stand so convinced.

He marched into Yoruba land with a flood of Igbos, as though staging an invasion. No! That is not politics. That is provocation. In ages past, kingdoms unsheathed swords for lesser affronts.

In conclusion,

Dear Sir, you are not the first presidential candidate to lose an election, and you will not be the last. A sitting president once lost, yet rapture didn't descend. Should you run again, defeat will surely again embrace thee, yet our manhood will not lose its ability to rise.

As GEJ declared, “My ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.” And let me declare to you: Your ambition is not worth the sweat of any trader, the tears of any mother, nor the burning of any city (delete that - 'the burning of yoruba land').

This is my verdict - Our Verdict. You stand warned.

Good Morning 3rdly and Severally...

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