Peter Obi remarks spark outrage as critics accuse him of divisive comments targeting Muslims and Northern values. One of them is Jowosimi Olabamiji Eniitan, popularly known as LEGENDARY JOE as captured below:
“Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” – Jesus.
You will find that reference in Matthew 12:34, and you will see it re-echoed with deliberate emphasis in Luke 6:45, just in case the first didn’t strike deep enough.
The context of that scripture is Christ rebuking the Pharisees – men who had thrown at Him accusations coated in witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, and every dark art they could conjure. His response was sharp enough to cut stone, blunt enough to silence their pretense, and unambiguous as daylight.
“O generation of Vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?”
Jesus was confirming to the Pharisees then, and revealing to us now, that speech is the mirror of character. Words are the overflow of the inner chamber. Actions may speak louder than words, yes, but words – even whispered – unveil the soul, for words are windows into the secret rooms of the heart.
And long before this moment, Peter, Fraud Ibn 3rd, had already spoken enough for discerning minds to understand the creed within him. His contempt for Muslims is second only to his disdain for the North, followed closely by the bile he harbours for the Yorubas.
And there are more than enough instances of his own utterances, like breadcrumbs, leading straight into the cavern of resentment hidden in his heart.
Reckless and divisive renditions such as:
“Church, take back your country.”
“The election is a religious war.”
“The Yorubas that voted Tinubu because he’s their brother, are they better off now?”
– along with his habitual characterization of the North as the poverty capital of Nigeria, the dumping ground for everything wrong and regressive.
And then, as seen in the video, which I am far too irritated to share, he claimed that the Muslim leader he met had the portrait of Jesus hanging in his palace.
First of all, let us establish this without ambiguity: that is a lie.
True Muslims do not adorn their sacred spaces with graven, carved, or painted images of prophets. In fact, many consider it an insult of the highest order.
Peter knows this.
He didn’t say it out of ignorance – he voiced it out of intention.
He uttered it to embarrass.
To provoke.
To subtly paint the Nigerian – particularly Northern – Muslim identity as archaic, unaccommodating, repulsive, regressive, antagonistic, beggarly, terroristic, and animalistic.
He wanted to inflame passions, especially at a time when sensitive global whispers are suggesting genocide against Christians in Nigeria. His words were not slips of the tongue; they were arrows drawn from the quiver of a calculated malice.
For it is out of the abundance of the evil in his heart that his mouth spoke.
Such condescension toward sacred values, such brazen disregard for the delicate threads binding our nation, are not surprising anymore.
What is surprising is that it took this long for Peter to finally unravel in full colour as the divisive, hypocritical, bigoted extremist he truly is.
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And so, I welcome the rest of you – albeit unfortunately – to this revelation that is Peter.
Good Morning Severally.
Golden pen with the ink from the gods, silver tongue forged in Yonder, I'm a Gift that won't stop Giving. SHALL I BEGIN?
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