Nigeria Wouldn’t Be Okay With Ok Alone

DR Jalarth Uche Opara

Nothing stands alone.

No single drop of water makes an ocean. It takes millions of drops to achieve that. A forest is a forest because it comprises many trees. No single tree, however gigantic, makes a forest. No single stream of urine produces appreciable foam; it takes the combined pressure of several streams to achieve that.

However proficient a hand may be, it produces no sound until it strikes something.

Obi is good, unarguably so. Kwankwaso joining forces with him gives the movement a lift, however modest that may be.

We are enthusiastic, alive with hope that Nigeria will be okay through OK (Obi/Kwankwaso). However, the depth of the Okayness Nigeria will experience when OK forms the government of the day will depend largely on the patronage, sacrifices, support and alignment of Nigerians with the values, vision and mission of OK.

OK isn’t an island. OK isn’t a destination. Neither is OK the ultimate solution. OK is only an oxygen. For life to be sustained, carbon dioxide must equally be available. The mutual collaboration that exists between human beings and plants should be the same collaboration that exists between OK and the masses.

We are all stakeholders and shareholders in this struggle to rescue Nigeria from the claws of lions. The project of Nigeria’s total liberation isn’t OK’s assignment alone. All hands must be on deck. Everyone should be seen to be contributing, however little, to the healthy cuisine we all desire to partake in.

We need a reorientation. Obi isn’t our Messiah. Collectively, we become our own Messiah. If there is one individual who needs this new Nigeria more than anyone else, it isn’t Obi. Certainly, it is you.

Beyond voting wisely, beyond protecting our votes and ensuring that they count, we must also ensure that our individual lifestyles align with integrity, sincerity and patriotism. This should become our devotion and creed.

A new Nigeria cannot be built by electing a good man and leaving him to do the work alone. It must be built by citizens who are equally committed to becoming good people.

Nigeria wouldn’t be okay with OK alone. Nigeria will be okay when OK meets a people who are equally ready to make Nigeria okay.

May we never be drunk with the euphoria of OK movement, the organic support it enjoys, the mellifluous sound track of OK campaign lyrics and forget the indispensable role that we all should collectively play to achieve this dream of a new and better Nigeria.

A New Nigeria is possible to the extend we the masses are ready to realign to this new political ideology.

#Ok! not on your mandate we shall stand!

#Ok! Nigeria will be okay when we collectively make it Okay.

#Ok! A new Nigeria is only possible when it becomes our collective project.

# Ok! Behind you, we will make Nigeria an okay country, not where everything will be okay, but where basic things will be okay and life basically okay. No country is okay everywhere and in everything.

The detail of the above philosophy is contained in the book “PETER OBI, THE MASSES AND HIS TRAGEDY”.

#Jarlath Uche Opara
jarlathuche@gmail.com