Why Peter Obi Will Make A Great Vice President [1] ~ By Tai Obasi

Finally, the campaigns are here. After attempts by haters to dissuade HE Atiku Abubakar from sticking with his running mate the former vice president kept both eyes on the ball.

Ordinarily, I shouldn’t be singling out HE Peter Obi for campaigns since he is the running mate in a joint ticket but having read the extreme levels haters have gone to make his choice appear a mistake, I decided, on my own, that Nigerians should know the true value of a man the Waziri Adamawa carefully considered before making his choice.

And what a choice!

Even if zoning is taken away from it, I don’t believe there’s any better choice for the position of Nigeria’s vice president in this present Nigeria.

I have never seen a man in such firm control of his emotions like Peter Gregory Obi. Don’t twist it… he gets angry, and why not? God Himself gets angry.

So ‘Okwute’ is permitted to occasionally get angry but the difference is that this great man so much controls anger that you hardly see him make any regrettable public statement. I consider such subsuming maturity as the most vital quality required of a Nigerian leader.

And just because his opponents have failed to make him lose his guard and focus, they resorted to calling him names like chameleon. Yes, because they believe that he must be plotting evil against them, knowing how terribly they have hurt a man, who only lives for humanity.

Yes, I look at whoever says ‘Okwute’ pretends as someone who has hurt him and expecting a retaliation… but getting none concludes that this man must be plotting a sinister revenge.

I listen to people who say Peter Obi never forgives as those with low acumen. Why? Because Okwute only protects himself from being hurt a second time and never goes for vengeance. He never has time for revenge. He rather forever thinks ahead, looking for opportunities to improve mankind while haters remain least of his worries.

The former Anambra State governor denies himself things he could easily afford just because he doesn’t want setting a negative standard for the society because he could afford it.

For instance, a lot of people who have seen him flying economy will either see it that this man is so miserly even to himself or see it that travelling economy gets you to your destination same time with those in first class.

The deep thinkers would interpret it as, ‘don’t stress your pockets going for first class seats when even this man travels economy.’ The very careless ones would ask, ‘is this man trying to prove that those travelling first class are fools?’

Different folks have different reasonings and that is why the group that constituted themselves haters of Peter Obi conjure all manners of tales to malign a man, who should be eternally celebrated any other place in the saner climes.

But it’s time to make the el-Rufais of this world and those ‘four is better than eight’ Crusaders in Anambra State swallow those hate speeches in shame, if at all it’s in their character.

Take it from me once more; Peter Obi came far ahead of his generation. I know this man. I have been opportuned to get pretty close and I will tell you why Nigeria needs him beside an equally very promising presidential candidate.

Atiku/Obi is a combination any progressive mind in Nigeria and beyond would endorse without blinking.

I know some bits of Atiku but I know a great deal about Obi. In my series I will tell more about the man I know very well. Luckily, a vote for Obi is a vote for Atiku!

#Let’sGetNgeriaWorkingAgain.