Pat Utomi

June 12, 1993. The freest election in Nigeria’s history. The winner never became president. Imagine the sports, economy, and healthcare trajectory if that mandate had been respected. Full video to this interview: youtu.be/kXKGnWkoZfE

Protect this young lady at all costs!!!

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Peter Obi will not stop at the airport to address you people, talk about how there is no electricity at the airport, and then jet back to Abuja within ten minutes of addressing you. Do you see how he is visiting all the states in Nigeria? This is a sign of a committed leader who holds the interests of Nigerians to heart and will not turn the UK and France into his second home. Remember when Tinubu visited Jos following the deadly attacks in Plateau State? He met community representatives near the airport and reportedly told them, “You have no light here, I'll fly out in ten minutes.” Nigerians, the ball is in your court. Will you join the boat of prosperity and fight for your country's freedom from the hands of politicians who don't think you're worth their time, or will you fold your hands and endure more years of bad leadership under the APC?

You would think you were being careless with your money, but all you did was buy a loaf of bread and a bottle of Coke. The majority of Nigerians are not living extravagant lives, things are just ridiculously expensive and the APC govt is hell-bent on making life a living hell for Nigerians!

A great wind of change is coming to Nigeria, and the corrupt politicians in power can feel it. They know business won’t be as usual under Peter Obi, and that is why they are fighting him. They can scheme all they want, but the gospel truth is you can't beat a man who has an indomitable spirit. Peter Obi is coming, and he is coming fast!!!

The post of the memo to me by the repats group and the processing of the presentation of the young people from consulting focused on future-proofing a New Nigeria re-invigorated my zest for key to Democracy being in what Jurgen Habermas calls rational public conversation that creates a market place of ideas.

We are convinced that targeting a strategic appreciation of the exchange rate by reasonably strengthening it from ₦1,350/$ to ₦500/$ as part of our manifesto is a winning strategy It offers a direct, multi-faceted approach to curbing inflation, reducing poverty, and lowering the cost of living When paired with our core manifesto commitments—such as major infrastructure improvements in security, electricity, and the road network, alongside structural reforms to boost market competitiveness—we can reasonably project a dramatic drop in staple commodity prices: • Sliced Bread (Loaf): ₦1,750 → ₦800 • Imported Rice (50kg bag): ₦55,000 → ₦27,500 • Yam (Medium tuber): ₦2,400 → ₦1,200 • Maize (50kg bag): ₦75,000 → ₦37,500 • Plantain (Bunch): ₦2,500 → ₦1,250 • Whole Chicken: ₦7,000 → ₦3,500 • Eggs (Dozen): ₦2,300 → ₦1,150 • Garri (Painter): ₦1,300 → ₦650 • Petrol (Per litre): ₦1,350/$1 → ₦500/$1 • Cement (50kg bag): ₦13,500/$10 → ₦2,000/$4 ⁠ It clearly demonstrates our concrete plan to uplift the 140 million Nigerians currently experiencing multi-dimensional poverty

What a joy to work with smart Nigerians. I set up several teams to take conservative, moderate, and liberal positions along parameters of the Peter Obi/Kwankwaso manifesto on how to check the decline in living standards and accelerate the pace of improvement. The conservative group was led by a former world bank person who has held senior policy position in government and then returned to academia. The liberal group was majorly made of young people under 40 in the Big 4 consulting firms and their friends. The middle ground was taken up by some repats. The charge was for prescriptions to be evidence based and defended at the Shark Tank of the Big Tent elders. I am moved after this mornings radio outing to share the middle ground offered by the repats with flashing infographics.

Every day, my faith in the youths of Nigeria continues to grow stronger. Lord, what a time to be alive!!!

I spent nearly 2 hours on life radio in Enugu this morning. The callers and texts I received spoke a simple truth. This 2026/27 elections crisis is a crisis of cost of living. There are those who want to get to esoteric discussions of how policy tweaking with exchange rate Managment and removing of or reinstating phantom subsidies for petrol prices are the issues. And even why reckless borrowing that makes us poorer should be seen as investments, but the bottom line is that Nigerians are hurting from decline in their standard of living. They want that to stop now. They know they are worse off than they were four years ago and much much worse off than eight years ago. In truth their quality of life is worse than their parents had and they are saying enough is enough. I am a policy pugilist and I am ready to go toe to toe and do a rope a dope in the policy ring to show those people the promise of a better future from the misery of now is a mirage worse than was flashed with SAP. But the people could not care for our policy counterpunching. They want freedom from serfdom now

You can buy almost everything money can afford, but you can never buy the genuine support of millions of Nigerians who see in Peter Obi the hope of a better Nigeria.

If anyone tells you that Peter Obi has no structure or lacks the support of the masses, show them this picture.

I was having a conversation with one of my assistants the other day, and I asked him how he was faring. He told me that back in 2021, when he was still in school, he spent nothing less than ₦600 a day on food, and that covered three square meals. Today, under Tinubu’s reforms, he spends ₦4,000 a day on food, yet there are days when he can only afford to eat once. How can the APC claim that its reforms are working when Nigerians are being forced to ration their meals? We are not even at war with another country, yet millions of people are struggling to afford basic necessities.

Undoubtedly, the only institution that has conquered tribalism in Nigeria is football.

Peter Obi is right. Show mercy to the corrupt, and you betray their victims. Let every ruler who feeds upon his people learn that the throne offers no shield from justice, and that the cries of the oppressed shall one day become the judgment of the powerful.

Dear Mama and Papa, Before you accept that ₦5,000 from a politician who seeks to purchase your conscience and secure another four years for his corrupt party, pause for a moment and ask yourselves: "Can this money sustain you and your family for the next four years"? "Will it repair the roads along which you travel? Will it restore dignity to our hospitals?" " Will it give your children the opportunities they deserve after spending years in our universities, hoping that education would open the doors to a better life?" No, my dear parents. That ₦5,000 will soon be spent, but the consequences of your vote may remain with you for another four years. You may spend it in a day, yet spend the next four years paying for that decision through broken roads, failing hospitals, rising hardship, and children whose talents are wasted for want of opportunity. Do not sell four years of your future for the price of a few hours of relief. A politician who offers you money to secure your vote is asking you to surrender a right that belongs to you and to the generations yet unborn. When election day comes, remember that your vote is worth far more than ₦5,000. It is a voice for your children, a demand for good government, and a declaration that the future of this country must not be auctioned to the highest bidder.

When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword. Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.

One of the beautiful things about Peter Obi is that his supporters are not the kind of people you can intimidate. The energy in this video is extraordinary. Nigeria will definitely be OK in 2027.

According to Tinubu, it is the opposition that is causing the poverty and hunger in the land. Nigerians, the earlier we unite and send the APC packing in 2027, the better for us.

The average Nigerian lives for about 54 years, while the Japanese can expect to live for about 90 to 100 years, Singaporeans for 83 years, and Canadians for 82 years. Does this mean that God is more eager to receive Nigerians into heaven than He is to receive the Japanese, Singaporeans or Canadians? Or have we created a society in which death arrives earlier for some than it does for others? A Nigerian may spend 40 fewer years on earth than a Japanese person. Forty years! An entire lifetime of birthdays, conversations, dreams, family gatherings and opportunities, lost to a difference that cannot simply be explained away as the will of God. Perhaps we should stop looking towards heaven for answers to questions that demand answers from those governing us on earth. The policies of the man sitting in Aso Rock affect the hospitals we enter, the food we eat, the water we drink, the jobs we find and the conditions under which we struggle to survive. Until Nigerians understand that leadership is not merely about who occupies the presidential seat, but also about how long and how well the people live, we may continue to mistake a failure of governance for a decision of God.