Anyone asking Peter Obi, a good man, to negotiate terms with Wike should look at my dear elder brother, Val Ozigbo and weep. I’m rewatching this through a tear welling up in my left eye. This is not a charm offensive, it’s a man groping in the dark — a good man who drank from bad advice. Listen again. He says so himself. He speaks of light, he thinks himself the light. He might well be. But what has happened here is that his new friends have put him under a bucket and his light is reaching no one. Val, nwanne m, the darkness you feel closing in on you is not you fighting it. You’re under a bushel. The candle can only touch the walls it is confined in. It can’t move walls. The darkness won (for now) because you crawled under it all by yourself. You love The Bible, so hear the voice of the Lord — 2 Corinthians 6:17: "Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you." You can’t watch the apostles walk by and choose to change the world in Herod’s house. You had a choice — you HAVE a choice. Another one. “Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: even when I fall, I shall arise again. Even when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be my light.” Micah 7:8 Here’s my read when you stay on your current path. The only way to get APC to trust you is if you were to put out your light completely and go gung-ho like Kenneth and Charles. Then and only then could you prove to them that you are willing to cut the people’s totem down, that your ambition is supreme, that like them, power at all costs for personal gain is all that mattered — the people be damned. @valentineozigbo, no one could have reformed the Nazis from the inside. No one could reform terrorists from within. By the way, a Canadian court literally designated APC as terrorists. So none of these metaphors is hyperbole. We also have the evidence of our own eyes. For a good man to be accepted within the APC, where the people are not citizens but inconveniences to be oppressed or discarded with extreme prejudice, in the service of power, greed, and opulence, you must “blend”. You must cross a line you hold dear. I am sure they have put the gun in your hands and pointed out who your sacrifice must be. So question is: will you “blend”? So here’s the advice of some random guy on the internet — Just know that when you do blend, there goes whatever claims you have of a higher calling. You will be IN the APC and most definitely OF the APC. Or … will you arise again and bring your light?