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Pat Utomi, while speaking in an interview with ‘The Niche’, stated that Nigerian youths are fed up of the country’s structure because it is denying them opportunity.
As a result of this many youths are relocating abroad while some stayed back to fight through protest and the first was the ENDSARS protest.
He added that in the midst of the suffering Nigerian youths are facing, they discovered Peter Obi, by the support he lends to the youth’s struggle with his voice. The youths have seen a leader in Peter Obi.
In Pat Utomi words,
“The youths of Nigeria, fed up enough about the structure and the nature of Nigeria, seeing it denying them opportunity began to respond first by leaving the country – the so-called Japa phenomenon.
Those who could were leaving. Many were dying in the deserts, just looking for opportunity anywhere outside of Nigeria.
And then, some decided that it was time to fight back. And their first form of organisation to fight back was against police brutality – ENDSARS. And the state met them with brutality.
And without their saying a lot, they then determined that they were going to go out and organise and use the political process to defeat those who were oppressing them, those who kept their knees on the necks of the generation next.
So, out of nowhere sprang what has come to be known as the support groups. They somehow discovered Peter Obi from what he was saying and decided that he will be their vehicle.
And that vehicle built its momentum. The momentum that that vehicle built was to say to the next generation there is hope; if you organise, you can stop agonising and get rid of these people who keep you down.
At first, they thought the people were joking. One day they woke up and found out that it wasn’t a joke anymore and they got vicious. They got dangerous.”
