On Memory Lane With Peter Obi In Kano, And It Was The Silent Majority’s Incredible Courage That Woke Me Up
The Oasis Reporters
January 23, 2023
@gregabolo
@Theoasisreport1
I had watched and re-watched again and again, LP presidential candidate Peter Obi’s campaign visit to Kafanchan, a dusty and modest town where the first Nigerian President, Nnamdi Azikiwe was born and raised. He spoke fluent Hausa. Eventhough Kafanchan community has it’s distinct ethnic language. But it didn’t matter back then. The north was one region with one love and one people. It didn’t matter where you came from.
Then Bashir taunted, on Twitter.
Shunning Sani Abacha Stadium for Kano Pillars/Sabon Gari stadium, a stadium of less than 5k capacity, is a bright decision by the Labour Party. The decision will definitely save them from an uninterrupted and costly embarrassment. We wait to see ariel images of the rally.
— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) January 22, 2023
I felt the media challenge in the adrenaline and watched. But Peter Obi would only go to the Stadium that he was given permission to use.
Kind of governor Abdullahi Ganduje to grant him the use of a stadium. Most kind of him anyway.
This is kano!! Take us very very serious! @PeterObi is our next President 😍
— Ibrahim H Abdulkarim (@ziter001) January 22, 2023
Just type "Ameeen" and retweet pic.twitter.com/CYjI8W0ZvL
We saw the quiet, resolved and calm dignity in the Kano citizens who came from different parts of the ancient city like Kabuga, Janbuloc, Gwammaja, Dala, Kurna, Sharada and other sides. They trooped to Sabon Gari.
Massive Crowd welcomed Peter Obi in Kano today.
— LabourPartyNG (@NgLabour) January 22, 2023
This is really ORGANIC MOVEMENT.
This has shown that Kano state & entire North is indeed OBIDIENT without any inducement.
Thank you Kano State for such massive love.
A New Nigeria Is Possible!#VoteLP #VoteLabourParty pic.twitter.com/p6Gj95bSIO
The citizens that descended on Kano Pillars (Sabon Gari) Stadium, came to see Peter Obi.
The compelling silence and quiet dignity of that majority in Kano looked to me like a people in search of hope, in search of a more meaningful future away from the perennial scarcity of petrol on the streets of Kano. An experience in Kano that started since the early years of military rule. It’s amazing, isn’t it ?
For a nation that produces crude oil, yet imports petrol.
Electricity shortages which mean that many more factories in Sharada and Challawa industrial estates will not operate.
And there’s this appalling violence of herdsmen versus farmers that means crop farmers would have to be on the run for their lives, herders too would be constantly fleeing from anger, whereas a synergy between the two groups ought to be a symbiosis of hope under mutual cooperation and prosperity.
I saw the silent majority in Kano want freedom. It showed in their ambience and in what they said.
Greg Abolo
gregabolo@gmail.com
