OBIdients Movement: Actualizing The True Rationale Behind The Endsars Protests For A New Nigeria

There are electrifying atmosphere on the air in a build up to Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, and the OBIdients Movement are pushing for Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, whose last name they coined from the campaign hovering around the country, a technocrat whose vision is interdem with that of majority of young people in the country. This has once happened in 2020 in the country when there were outbreak of protests around the country which aimed at police brutality particular targeted against young people which later metamorphosed into political revolution to make away with bad governance which has eaten up the country and set the youths’ teeth on edge.

The protests were burned out of high rate of unemployment, hopelessness that the country gives to graduates and malpractices at different level of government at its peak. The Endsars protests were means to voice out this grievances until the greatest tragedy of mankind that has ever occurred in the country took place, the Lekki toll gate massacre that up till today nobody has come out to take responsibility of what happened, the pathetic nature of the killings is that denial of government that such thing shootings ever took place. It is scars that forever stay fresh in the mind of right thinking Nigerians in search for new Nigeria.

The OBIdients Movement has moved from campaign to defining moment for younger generation to play active role in choosing the kind of leaders that are going to pilot the affairs of the country, they are done with being nonchalant about who becomes what or not in the political settings they are now political aware on relevant positions that guarantee the progressive nature of the country, what they are clamouring for is good governance that will better the life of every Nigeria and create atmosphere for businesses to strive and compete internationally, all these have been dominant absentees in Nigeria’s social, political and economic frame.

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In a world that is dominant with technologies Nigeria is lacking behind, techs are not at the forefront of the government policies and education through which that can be achieved has been comatose, there is no passage through which information can be gained for development. OBIdients Movement is pushing for political restructure that will give room for progressive Nigeria, where well-meaning Nigerians will be at the helm of affairs of the country’s administration, with the current settings these youths are not seeing the future with the same leaders who ruled during military era, still pilot the affairs of the country now, recycling the same people to keep Nigeria in the dark.

New Nigeria is what these youths are advocating for, where hard work will be rewarded, where merit will be in place of mediocre and where there will be justice for a common. A healthy society is behind the rationale for new Nigeria, where youths will stand up for what is right as opposed to decayed policies which the country has been wallowing on. OBIdients Movement is experiencing time for political change, an atmosphere which is going to give birth to a start of new era and the dream country of younger generation in search for hope.