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Peter Obi has turned what should have been a routine birthday greeting to Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, into a stinging commentary on the country’s decay, declaring, “We are finished.”
“I join millions of Nigerians in wishing Her Excellency, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, a happy birthday. May God Almighty, who has been with her all these years, grant her many more healthy, fruitful, and happy years,” Obi wrote.
But his message quickly shifted from courtesy to condemnation. “I was struck by irony reading her request: that instead of cakes or newspaper adverts, well-wishers should donate toward completing the National Library in Abuja. On the surface, it is noble and selfless. But beneath it lies an indictment of our nation.”
He continued, “It is shocking that, in our present circumstances, while billions are easily found for jets, yachts, unused mansions, endless trips abroad, and other frivolities, the nation must rely on birthday donations to complete its own National Library.”
Obi asked pointedly, “What kind of country must beg for charity to build the very temple of knowledge? What kind of leaders waste trillions on luxury and vanity, while the National Library, our intellectual furnace, remains abandoned in the capital?”
Although he admitted Mrs Tinubu was right that education is the most enduring legacy a nation can give its people, Obi said the contrast between that truth and the government’s spending priorities is “shocking and tragic.”
“If Nigeria will rise, it will not be on the wings of jets or the splendour of mansions, but on the strength of minds formed in classrooms and nourished in libraries,” he declared. “Until then, the lament remains true—we are finished.”
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