Why Do We Fight?

Nigeria, despite its wealth and talent, is mired in a crisis of leadership that has left millions struggling to merely survive. The dream of independence, democracy, and a government that serves its citizens has been repeatedly broken. Silence in the face of such inadequacy is complicity. From a Houston podium, connected by thousands of miles to Nigeria, the Nigerian diaspora community stands committed to fighting for a better Nigeria.

This fight is not limited by borders; it resides within every Nigerian who refuses to accept that poverty, insecurity, and decay—resulting from the current government's policies—are their unchangeable fate. The statistics paint a grim picture: Nigeria ranks 161st in the UNDP's 2023/24 Human Development Report, placing it in the low human development category.

Nearly 20 million children are out of school, and our healthcare system is ranked 187th globally. A staggering 62.9% of Nigerians, roughly 133 million people, live in multidimensional poverty. In just one year, 7,825 people were kidnapped and 1,142 killed, not abstract numbers, but mothers, fathers, students, traders, and farmers whose lives were cut short or fundamentally altered by governance failures.

The 2023 election deepened the trust deficit. The election monitoring platform Mundx.com found that 48% of result sheets uploaded to the IREV portal were transmitted from phone devices rather than the required ballot verification and auditing system machines. In Rivers State, Peter Obi led the vote count on IREV, yet Bola Tinubu was declared the winner.

In Oru-East, Imo State, over 100 polling units had no party agents despite the APC winning all of them. These discrepancies, documented and captured in photographs taken after the election, underscore a compromised electoral process. This erosion of faith in elections poses a threat to democracy itself. However, there is reason for optimism.

SBM Intelligence's Voter Sentiment Tracker shows Peter Obi with a +58.3 net favorability rating, while Bola Tinubu shows –58.5. Across Nigeria's geopolitical zones, Obi leads in favorability, and a Reuters survey indicates that 80% of Nigerians believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, citing economic hardship and insecurity as primary concerns.

Your contribution is vital—not as charity, but as investment in protecting votes, training poll watchers, providing resources for peaceful protests, and enhancing the technology that flags electoral irregularities in real-time on the Obidient Connect platform. Every contribution will be transparently allocated to three core areas: connecting Obidients nationwide, empowering grassroots organizations, and safeguarding the voting process.

Together, we can turn frustration into organized action, ensuring a Nigeria that truly works for its people.