Leaving The Cult: My Epiphany! - Full Transcript

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尼日利亚政治评论者Omar在X Space上回顾自己作为2023年大选前"Obidient"运动创始成员的经历，批评该运动已偏离初衷，并解释自己为何在此刻发声。 - Omar强调自己并非情绪化"崩溃"，而是冷静理性地发布了一系列推文，并称这是长期观察后的发声。 - 他悼念已故的Twitter Space先驱Waju Akimanyuels，遗憾看到由年轻人热情驱动的运动发生变质。 - 他自述是Obidient运动的早期奠基者之一，早在运动名称出现前就已参与，初衷是让年轻尼日利亚人参与政治。 - 2022年他与Dery合作创办"People's Parliament"空间，力求为不同政治立场的人提供平等发声平台。 - 他提到当时年轻人普遍政治冷漠，认为选举只是"选择"而非真正竞争，因此决定投身其中。 - 他回忆与Saddam等人共同创办后来知名的Space节目，见证"n6、Saddam、Omar"组合的形成。 - 他表示提供这些背景是为了说明当前讨论的来龙去脉，而非闲聊。建议听众结合这段历史背景，理性看待Obidient运动的演变及Omar此次公开发声的动机。

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Alright great thank you very much

A very good evening to you my fellow Nigerians

Thank you very much for joining this space I do not take it for granted the time and the energy that you've reserved

To be a part of this interesting conversation because I promise you this will be very interesting

To begin with special greetings to everyone special greetings to

Buwamokaro Jury

Awards may never be able to express my gratitude for the kindness the support even the reprimand

That I've gotten from different quarters

Thank you Anika and the honorable lady who gave me the privilege to speak on their platform yesterday

I'm just a regular Nigerian and I'll be honest. I'm deeply humbled by the way most people have reacted

I love this morning when someone said in my mentions that oh omar you've been crashing out

Well, it's easy to see my volley of tweets as a crash out but they're far from it

I posted all those tweets from a cool calm and collected headspace

I'd like to observe a moment of silence for an amazing brother

One of the pioneers of Twitter spaces prior to the 2023 elections

The great Waju Akimanyuels

May his gen 2 so continue to rest in peace

You played your part Waju

And I just just like you told me during our last private conversation before your passing

It is disappointing to see

What's a movement driven by a shared passion and the enthusiasm of young Nigerians as morphed into

They say you will prevail

When good people choose to say stay silent

For those of you who might be wondering why now

Well

Patience is a true virtue of every genuine omar you are because as I out as would say

For cooking wood, you do

The ability to play the long game is a strength that every politically aware person must exit it

Contrary to what most of the present day members of the obedient calls may believe

I did not join the obedient movement just for the records

On this wonderful app that belongs to the great Alan Mosque

I was one of the founding members of your movement even before the name of the audience was coined

I chose to throw myself in the mix of Nigerian politics despite

having a long existing accounts on this platform that was solely

Used to follow my favorite football club as now

I'll discuss football banter with people from abroad actually just foreigners

I will discuss football those were the days of uber social

I'm sure anyone who has been on this app for such a long time would remember uber social

Then he wasn't just using the twitter app you have to have uber social and it was really good. It was healthy

And as the 2023 elections were approaching. I remember in 2022

Myself and a lovely lady called Derry we connected

And we decided to start hosting spaces

It took a while before we settled on a name for the platform

Eventually we came up with people's parliament because we wanted a platform that would give everybody a voice

Irrespective of where you belong to

You know in the political divide

We felt it was important for young Nigerians to be able to lend their voice to the conversation

We felt it was important for us to have a politically aware youth

Demography because at that time

Many of us realized that most young Nigerians were not particularly interested in politics

There was a feeling of apathy a lot of people had settled for the fact that well, you know

Anybody would win anyway. It was just a selection. It was never really an election

What we decided to throw ourselves in the mix

Anyone who understands

You know all these times that I'm talking about

Would remember there was this space that was held at the time where Segalink

The great Segalink and the Jardin of Juhard they very heated exchange with Nigerians

I can't recall the name of the host of that space but

Saddam spoke there and that was how I met Saddam

And what is now known as the violin space began. I struggled to remember whether I messaged him or we did

But we started hosting spaces. I remember that I missed a number of episodes

I think one or two at least stages of the episode of the spaces

I think we presented the first and second one together

And then I got busy and then I took a break and by the time I got back

n6 are joined and what you now know as the violin space began

And it was good. Oh, it was really good. We had a great time at the early stages of it

And that was how n6 Saddam and Omar became a thing

Now the reason for this preamble is not because I want to bore you with small talk

But providing the background is extremely important for the discussion we're going to have tonight

When this whole thing began, Peter Oby's campaign for the 2023 elections was just about to take off

I remember people would come on myself and daring space back then

And they would ask also who were supporting or who are you guys

throwing your heart in the ring with and all of that

There was simmering anger from young Nigerians particularly because of NSARS

I mean today is 20th of October so God bless the souls of the departed

People also had concerns about the existing political order

People were really angry towards the boi government and we just wanted something different

And what I would blame on useful exorbitants and a slight dose of political naivety

We thought we were being part of a national project

We campaigned viciously

And during that campaign

We definitely made more adversaries than friends

One of them is

Arle on the cotton for one of the

Think you're about first movement

I remember I invited him on one of our spaces

To have a conversation and he dealt into an uncomfortable part of Nigerian history

I'm based on the fact that we had a viewpoint that the project at that time was a pan-nageral project

Did my best to limit him from being able to express himself

Arle on the cotton for ice I deeply apologize for the way you were treated that day

You do not deserve it because history is very important

I'm a student of history myself and I understand that it is impossible for anybody to truly understand

The makeup of present in Nigeria

You're what people will say

If you don't know where you're coming from

It's difficult for you to know where you're heading to

And of course

subsequent events

proven and right

Because history has actually come to repeat itself

They say those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat the same mistakes

Well, I guess I didn't learn enough lessons from that

And we repeated a number of mistakes

But we all failed to were part of a greater good

Well, I met some amazing people and we found the background group to coordinate the violin space and provide our own virtual support for a candidate

We genuinely liked for different reasons

For me, it was the fact that he was younger

He seemed approachable and he demonstrated

Analy desire to listen to young Nigerians

Personally, my conviction was rooted in the fact that

It would feel great to have a president who was supported into office by Nigerians

And even if he doesn't have to write within four years

Well, we would vote him out, that was what we believed

Just like Ghanaians would do another working democracies across Africa

Over the course of eight months

Many things happened

Elections came

And Ashifajibullah met in the moon

The rest is history

But having given you this background

Over the course of three years, I've observed deeply

What the obedient movement has morphed into

Sorry, I'm trying to accept my speakers

Yes, thank you very much

I've observed what the movement has morphed into

I've observed how many of the things that I predicted

And this is not me trying to sound like a prophet

Sometimes, are people, are euro-bath people, they say

If you look closely, you see your nose

Tehomaddejusiliyarii mo

I saw a number of things happening

And I realized that this is going in a direction that

Wasn't making much sense

I realized that in large number of people

Within the campaign had

Motives that were not particularly pure

A large number of them had similar in resentment

for people over their ethnicities

But of course a large number of them held those beliefs to themselves

Because they didn't want to

Maybe show their hands too early

The campaign was brutal

And I played a part in it

I played a huge part in

And what the obedient movement has become

Has become right now

I was very tough

On most opposition members

I was very tough on a large number of people

They would come on our spaces

Initially started as friendly banter

Initially started as

You know we just trying to ensure that our voice overshadowed theirs

Well with the benefit of hindsight that did not really

And that does not really seem like a particularly wise way to go about it

But as elections approached

Reality started to dawn on me

You're within a campaign and you can

You can see how things are going

You can see the half of that nature

At which critical things

Were being handled

You can see how

A large number of important events

Were

Surely arranged

And it was getting

To the point where I kept telling myself

Like is this election actually winnable

But also I mean I have people on this space

I hope what somebody is here

I'm looking forward to having my dear brother

I did you really want me

I hope he joins us

As soon as possible

We're looking at it at the time

And

I was thinking to myself

Do these people really have what it takes to win an election

You're looking at

Out of my reference and events

For instance the day the obidati campaign

Was supposed to campaign in the motion state

On the morning of that campaign

I'm really looking forward to our day

You've been here

We had an emergency call with a prominent obedient

A lady on this platform

I mean she's here

Madam Isha is who

And we started talking about mobilizing

For the campaign in the motion state

And I realized that

This is not good preparation

I understand Nigeria to

To some extent

I mean I'm not the

I'm not a perfect person

Neither do I have a complete understanding of everything

But you know that

They say if you prepare to

If you fail to prepare

You should be prepared to fail

And I knew that the chances of winning that election

You know

Was quite slim

But I also relied on the fact that

Many people were very angry

Young Nigerians believed in the cause of

What the PO campaign was about

As you are the volumetric one

As far as I'm concerned

Whoever gets declared

By iNEC

Is the one that won the election

I don't care how much evidence

You claim to have

That you cannot bring out

If you have any evidence

That you won the election

Well you might as well just bring it out

The truth is

Volumetric will won the election

And it was declared

As the candidate

And I'm going to reference something

That obedience might bring out

Just so you know

That I'm not afraid of

Whatever you're going to come up with

Around the time that the election results

Where to be announced

I was one of those who were

Clamoring for

Peter O'Bits will actually lead the protest

I mean

In Nigeria

Because of NSAS

Whenever people hear the word protest

It's almost synonymous to violence

And people would be thinking

Things are going to go left and all that

And I get

I get where that fear is coming from

NSAS

Did a number of many of us

And it's totally understandable

That people felt nervous

That

Okay

Things might

Get

Overboard

The protest might be hijacked

But

I'll use the example of

Uganda

You're wearing muslims

And it has been in power for

God knows how many years

Close to three decades

And is that different

Opposition members

In that country

Kizabisij was one of them

Before Bobby Wine came

To prominence

Kizabisij led protest many times

It was arrested

But it kept going

Because of what he believed in

And I thought to myself

You understand that

Young Nigerians are angry

So I'll expect you to

At least lead a peaceful march

As a matter of fact

If you are part of the protest

I am very confident

It will be very difficult for people

To hijack that protest

Number one

Number two

Your presence alone

Would give it the level of

Attention that he deserved

Plus the international press

Were in Nigeria at the time

The Bwari government was on its way out

And I could bet my life on it

Bwari was not ready to start shooting

At Young Nigeria

Six months before

The end of his tenure

It was Bobby just

He ran the election in a way

That you could tell that

It was a game of

Let the best man win

So I felt like there was an opportunity here

For you too

Even if you do not win the election

If you did not win the election outrightly

It is well within your rights

As a presidential candidate

To dispute the conduct of the elections

Of course we understand that the elections were

They were flawed in many ways

And that is the Nigerian election

We are still growing democracy

We don't have perfect electoral systems yet

Countries like America and the United Kingdom

They can hold an election tomorrow

But our own election

Take years for us to prepare for

But it didn't do that

And I started hearing stuff

Like oh

Focus on the judiciary

That was when I started laughing at the affoli

Oh, Nega Zua

Absolutely joke as him

Because if you believe

That the judiciary is going to hand an election to you

Then you don't really know what you're doing

You don't know what you're doing

Because

In the history of Nigeria

In 1999

There has never been a president

That has been removed

By the judiciary

All that has been appointed

It has never happened

The moment I make declares you

As the winner of an election

Everybody can go to sleep

It's over

And once the elections were over

I used to tell them on spaces back then

There are people on this space

On this space right now

Oh, we testified to the fact

I used to tell them that

Look once these elections are over

I may I'll go back to my private life

It's not that deep

At the end of the day

We tried our best

We did what we could do

Bola Maitreya was one of the elections

We can only pray

That his governments

Is kind and benevolent

Enough to put the interest of Nigerians

At the forefront of its programs

And in all honesty

I also saw one thing

Because it's very important for you

To put things in perspective

Especially when you feel like

Planeas failed

Okay, so what's Plambi

We got six million votes

That is

That is very strong for a first time

Presidential campaign

Six million votes is no joke

In a country like Nigeria

You can harness that

You can build the Labour Party

Into a stronger force

And we return in four years

The four years is back now, isn't it?

We are back at that for four years

You don't reach

Generally elections would hold

So we can all maintain the order in this movement

We can try and coordinate better

We'd lend from the mistakes we made in 2023

In 2023

The Labour Party barely had polling agents

And anybody here can fact check me

On the morning of the 2023 elections

I remember placing a call

To the Labour Party chairman

In legal state

Pastor Diwakong

She can dispute it if she thinks

You know if I'm lying

And I called her and I was like

What's going on?

And I realised there was no situation on the room

Bro

That was very realistic

Started to download me like

I've stuck my neck out for these people

For eight months of my life

I don't even have a bloody situation on the room on the election day

How serious am I supposed to take you

Okay fine

Yes, you don't have a situation on the room

It's understandable

That's fine

We can still re-strategize

And we'll find our way back

Most of the obedience

One of them said in my mentions today

That oh you disappeared before elections

And I laughed at him

Because I was thinking to myself

On the day of elections

On my previous accounts

Who were you guys sending your sheets

From the polling units

Two

Or sorrow you can fact check me

They were sending me slips

From the polling unit

And I was posting it on my Twitter account

So that we can have some fun

Oh my

You did take those lunatic serious

Oh yes

Sorry

So that you can have a deal

What was that

Please

I'm sorry

What was I did

I don't want to take you

Yes

Yes, so done

Yes please

Everyone is going to speak

Don't worry

This is not an echo chamber

I'm not trying to give you guys any long speech

I just need to give you a background to this whole thing

And you know

I thought to myself like

All right

It's fine

Even if we

We don't win elections this time around

We can re-strategize

And then

I started hearing stuff like

I remember I was getting private calls from

Setting obedience

All that ones actually

Not the young ones

All that ones

I don't want to mention their names

People that we used to coordinate in the background

And they were calling and they were like

Now you know

That elections are

The presidential election

We need to focus on Legos

And back GRV

And I'm like

I'm going to minute

Big ups to GRV

Is a very brilliant individual in his own right

And I have so much respect for him

It doesn't have any

Public record of governance

So even if I'm going to campaign for somebody

At least this should be someone that I believe

In his ability to get the job done

And honestly

I was asking myself

I remember I used to have this conversation

I can't wait for your day to be here

I remember having a conversation with our region

I was telling him that

GRV

Governor of Legos

Are you going to govern people like

Muda Ashiru or Basal

Like are you having a laugh

I really

They will smoke you in no time

But I just don't see you doing it

It's about what I believe in

Isn't it

And then the rhetoric started to become more dangerous

It started to become louder

We have to we have to do everything possible

I remember when the Labour Party campaign

Train came to Legos

The National Youth Leader of the Labour Party

Prince Kennedy are a hano

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