Andrew Babangida O.

Touching lives through the small things.

[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

This brings back fond memories of our many road trips across Nigeria in 2022–23 —especially the night we spent sleeping in our cars at a fueling station in the forest outside Kaiama, Kwara State.

His Excellency Peter Obi and I are still agile and fully ready for the task ahead. Are you? - RMK

[Field Marshal of the Han Dynasty @General_Oluchi]

The only way to unveil the hidden truth is to keep discussions regarding it alive for as long as possible. If nothing shifts today, it might happen 10-50 years later, but it will eventually happen.

Keep these discussions alive.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Did the Dangote IPO change the nature of retail participation in the Nigerian capital market forever? If all platforms are shilling Dangote IPO collections like this, what stops them from being broker/issuing-house interfaces for other transactions? The Issuing house sponsorship model of retail platforms is very, very interesting.

Why can't I also load my HISA or Bamboo wallet from roadside agents or third-party apps for a tiny processing fee? Maybe we should build an interface for third-party agents to register as collecting agents for capital market transactions using the same model we built for payments.

Banks engage in a lot of capital market activity as part of their private and investment banking mandates, but it is usually for HNIs and corporates. I think something may have been unlocked here without people realizing it.

The agency model has come to capital markets without people knowing. Let's hope it won't become as skewed towards self-serving activity as POS agents did.

@eldivine @investbamboo @theflutterwave

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

I really care about power. That’s why I’m always involved in politics and advocacy.

All the money in the world does nothing for me. I’ve lived it all. I’ve done it all. Money does nothing for me again. There’s a limit to how you can cause a change with all the money you have. No area has gotten more money than say Makoko (they’ve gotten at least $10 million cumulatively) but it’s the same thing ghetto.

It’s now power for me really. I will do what it takes to get it to cause that change our people need. That’s why I presented myself forward for elections in the first place.

You cannot effect a change to improve the lives of those around you if you do not have the power to do so. You will just be a noisemaker, online activist or at most the only “big man” in your zone living in a bubble.

Criminals and wicked people have held power for so long. We need good, empathetic people to get power too.

NDC will get power.

[Dr Nahza @ammielv]

This is why it will ALWAYS BE @PeterObi for me.
Looks like we may have accidentally found another PR point for him.
7 key negotiation points. Kept meeting in the middle.. meeting in the middle until the last 2.
Very firm in his resolve, the answer was No. I could not sell these people out.
This will not work for me or them.
I am not that desperate for this.

However, being surrounded by Jackals and Hyenas, the Hyenas thought "ohh why not give this, just give it. Leave this your "holier than thou" behaviour".
Now, fellows from the pack of Hyenas are dropping "lessons" for us!

Oga o!
There must be a line. A VERY VISIBLE LINE ELSE THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE PEOPLE YOU ARE CLAIMING TO BE BETTER THAN!
ALSO THE MORE YOU GIVE, THE MORE MATERIALS THERE IS TO BLACKMAIL YOU WHEN THE TIME COMES!

I would say ignore the Hyenas or maybe spin it.. because in the coming days, more wolves would shed their sheep's clothing!

Let's all meet infront abeg!

VOTE PETER OBI AND RABIU MUSA KWANKWASO IN 2027.
VOTE NDC!

[publikphigor @publikphigor]

Obidients & Kwankwasiyya 📢
We must take this campaign personally if we want to win.

Every single thing you can do to spread the word must be done. Only 246 people have shared this message so far. I'm sure we can do 1,000.

Click the link and hit share!
https://t.co/NxrqWaBemv

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

After My Visits to Benue and Plateau.

After returning to Abuja on 8th September 2026, following our visits to Benue and Plateau States, I travelled to Europe, first to Germany and then to the United Kingdom. There, I participated in a series of high-level meetings addressing issues of fundamental importance to Nigeria’s future.

Our conversations addressed democracy and electoral integrity, the escalating challenge of poverty, education, corruption, healthcare, and, above all, practical ways to improve the lives and preserve the dignity of our people.

I was especially encouraged by the sincere readiness of our international partners to support Nigeria, particularly in the critically important area of education. I have consistently emphasised that education is the most valuable investment we can make in our people, because no nation can create a prosperous and sustainable future without developing the knowledge, skills, and capabilities of its citizens.

We must intentionally transition Nigeria from consumption to production, from dependence to productivity, from wasteful practices to responsible resource management, and from division to a common national purpose.

Together, we can create a Nigeria in which every child receives a quality education, democracy genuinely embodies the people’s will, healthcare is within reach, public resources are administered responsibly, and every Nigerian enjoys a fair chance to lead a dignified and productive life.

A New Nigeria Is POssible. -PO

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫

Seneca was a notable philosopher who lived under Emperor Nero. He preached ascetic virtues but was accused of accumulating enormous wealth. Being a man of letters capable of defending himself, Seneca wrote: "𝐼 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝐼 𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑. 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔" - of which of us is this not true?

🧵

[Andrew Babangida O. @AndrewWonder1]

@Franeb If all 5 top contenders (we have 7 heavyweights in total) can halt APC's rigging machinery outside the central zone,... The election might be decided in a second round...

Adamawa would have the toughest election nationwide .

[Politrician @Franeb]

This is the second time I have spoken to @PeterObi on the phone this year.

I am more than excited and I am humbled by this Man's humility.

2027 is a pivotal year in our Polity.

We must do all it takes to work in this campaign in whatever capacity

@ziter001 you've done well

[Aboki Nagari @Aboki_Nagari]

My fellow Obidient, with all due respect and without any intention to offend you, I believe you should reconsider campaigning for @PeterObi Peter Obi in the Hausa language when you are not indigenous Hausa.

This was one of the mistakes we made in 2023. We have many Hausa-speaking Obidients and supporters who are more naturally positioned to communicate the message in Hausa and connect with the people at the grassroots which we are already on.

This is not about who supports Peter Obi more. It is about political optics, authenticity and strategy. When a non-Hausa person campaigns in Hausa, it can sometimes create the wrong perception and may become a political red flag, regardless of our good intentions.

We have many Hausa brothers and sisters who genuinely support Peter Obi. Let them take the lead in Hausa-language campaigns, while you support them, coordinate with them and contribute in other effective ways.

I say this as a fellow Obidient, respectfully and in good faith. We must learn from 2023 and be more politically strategic this time.

[Politrician @Franeb]

This is very important

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

I have consistently continued to respectfully appeal to those in office today to prioritise reconstruction and maintenance of existing roads and other infrastructure over commencing new ones.

I left someone in Onitsha on Saturday night to take the first bus to Lagos on Sunday morning. Until I left Lagos at 8 pm yesterday, he had not arrived in Lagos. He only arrived in Lagos at about 2 pm today. A journey that usually takes a maximum of 8 hours now takes nearly two days.

This is not just about bad roads. It is about lost man-hours, stranded passengers sleeping on highways, wasted fuel, damaged vehicles, delayed goods, and businesses losing millions of naira.

Nigerians do not need new projects just for the headlines. We need functional roads that make life and economic activity possible.

A government must understand that infrastructure is not necessarily about the size of the project; it is about the number of lives and livelihoods it improves.

A new Nigeria is POSSIBLE, and Nigeria will be OK. -PO

[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

The APC Campaign Council: Nigerians Deserve a New Direction

I have taken note of the recently constituted APC Presidential Campaign Council, whose composition offers Nigerians a clear picture of the choice before us in the 2027 general election.

The council brings together many of the same political actors who have supported, defended or participated in the present administration. Their coming together raises a fundamental question: what exactly are they asking Nigerians to vote for in 2027, a new beginning, or the continuation of the same system that has brought severe hardship to our people?

The truth is, I see the 2027 election as a struggle between the oppressed Nigerian masses and those who have benefited from, defended and sustained the system responsible for their hardship.

It is concerning to all well-meaning Nigerians whose across the country, their families are struggling with the rising cost of food and basic necessities. Young Nigerians face unemployment and diminishing opportunities. Farmers and businesses are struggling to survive, while millions continue to live with insecurity. Our education, healthcare and other essential public services remain under enormous pressure.

This ruling campaign structure presents another scenario between the oppressors and the oppressed. We must use it come 2027 election to reject continued oppression and demand accountable, people-centred governance. If Osun people can do it, so can all other parts of the country.

I particularly appeal to my brother, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, who has accepted to serve as Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, to reflect deeply and reconsider accepting this responsibility.

As a former governor of Zamfara State and a prominent leader from the North-West, I believe Senator Yari has a clear understanding of the devastating consequences of insecurity, poverty, unemployment, displacement and the destruction of livelihoods in the region and the country at large.

I therefore will be surprised if in his good conscience, will lead a campaign whose principal objective is to secure the continuation of a government under which many of the people he once governed, and other innocent Nigerians remain trapped in these challenges?

There is also a serious institutional question concerning the inclusion of the Executive Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service, Dr Zacch Adedeji, and the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Dr Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, in the campaign’s fundraising and finance structures.

The leadership of critical public institutions demands neutrality, integrity and public confidence. It is therefore legitimate to ask whether the responsibilities of senior officials entrusted with managing public revenue and national finances can appropriately coexist with senior partisan campaign roles.

The government and the APC should explain how such arrangements are consistent with institutional neutrality and public trust.

Ultimately, no campaign council is more powerful than the Nigerian people. - RMK

[Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso @KwankwasoRM]

MY MESSAGE TO NIGERIANS ON THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE 2027
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

My dear Nigerians,

As the 2027 presidential campaign officially begins, I call on every Nigerian to reflect deeply on the state of our nation and the kind of country we want to leave for the next generation.

Nigeria stands at a critical crossroads. Our people are facing a difficult economic reality. The rising cost of food and essential goods has placed enormous pressure on families.

Millions of young Nigerians are searching for meaningful employment and opportunities, while businesses are struggling with high operating costs and an uncertain economic environment.

At the same time, insecurity continues to threaten communities across the country. Too many families have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods to terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other forms of violence.

Our farmers need security to return to their farms, our children need safe schools, and every Nigerian deserves to live without fear.

Our education and healthcare systems require urgent investment. Our infrastructure must be improved, our institutions strengthened, and public resources managed with greater
transparency and accountability.

These challenges are serious, but Nigeria is full of hope. We have the people, resources and potential to build a prosperous and secure nation. What we need is leadership with the competence, courage and commitment to put the interests of Nigerians first.

This is why I have chosen to work with His Excellency, Peter Obi, on the Obi-Kwankwaso ticket.

Our partnership is not about region, religion or personal ambition. It is about Nigeria. We believe in a country where government serves the people, where hard work is rewarded, where young people can build successful futures at home, and where every citizen has a fair opportunity to prosper.

To our young people, women, workers, farmers, entrepreneurs and professionals, I ask you to join us in this journey.

Let us move beyond politics of division and focus on the issues that affect our daily lives. Let us demand accountability, competence and results from those entrusted with public office.

The 2027 election presents Nigerians with an opportunity to choose a new direction.

I therefore call on all Nigerians to support the Obi–Kwankwaso ticket and all candidates of the NDC and join us in the task of rebuilding our nation.

Let us campaign peacefully, responsibly and with the national interest at heart.

Together, we can build a stronger nation and Nigeria will be OK. - RMK

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Once you have finally solved the problem of regular income as a professional by getting a good job, you start trying to secure the future with the right investments. This is the pattern most people follow and they almost always end up doing the same things - property, equities...

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

By Making Excuses for Unverified Certificates, We Are Planting Poison in the Soul of Our Society

A nation that tolerates unverified academic credentials at any level of leadership, regardless of who is involved, risks destroying the very standards upon which a society is built. The issue is not about an individual. It is about standards, accountability, and the values we choose to pass on to the next generation.

We cannot continue to excuse blurred, missing, questionable, or unverified credentials simply because they belong to someone we support. The process through which people attain positions of responsibility matters greatly. How we get into leadership is as important as what we do with leadership.

If we normalise the abandonment of basic verification today, tomorrow we may have professors who never attended a university, doctors who never studied medicine, and judges who never studied law.

That is the dangerous precedent we must never allow. Nigeria cannot sacrifice its future on the altar of today's transactional politics. We must build a society where truth is not partisan, standards are not negotiable, and accountability applies equally to everyone.

History will judge us not only by those we defended, but by the principles we were willing to defend. We must choose truth over convenience, standards over sentiments, and the future over political expediency.

A New Nigeria is possible, but only if we are willing to do the right thing, even when it is inconvenient. -PO

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

You claim that the United States possesses a far superior moral, legal, and socioeconomic system based on abstract values like the "rule of law," "equal opportunity," and "minority protections," simply because wealthy Chinese, Iranian, and Nigerian oligarchs fly to America to give birth, buy luxury real estate, and secure US citizenship for their families.

But in material reality, this is a complete reductio ad absurdum and a self-destructive argument. You are taking semantic language explicitly designed to describe vulnerable, marginalized, and oppressed working-class groups who are genuinely seeking economic opportunity or needing minority protections, and applying it to the most powerful, resource-rich elites on the planet.

The actual "opportunity" you describe means real social mobility, job creation, living wages, affordable housing, clean water, and access to basic human needs like healthcare and education for ordinary working-class families. These foreign oligarchs already possess unlimited wealth, global mobility, private security, and institutional power in their home countries. They are not moving to the US for economic opportunity or public education. What they are actually seeking is secret asset shielding, tax optimization, offshore wealth preservation, and a safe haven to permanently lock in their stolen privilege against potential anti-corruption campaigns or political dynamics in their home nations.

The real, struggling minorities and working-class immigrants in the US do not enjoy a single one of these elite privileges. While the corrupt rich enter America on high-profile EB-5 investor visas, premium business passes, and diplomatic channels, the actual working-class immigrants have to settle for restrictive H-1B visa categories that legally tie their immigration status to a single corporate employer. They are strictly forbidden from easily changing jobs, working overtime, or taking secondary employment. This means they are forced to agree to whatever petty wages, long hours, and poor working conditions their corporate employer dictates, having no realistic way of quitting because their employer can instantly terminate their work status, render them undocumented, and leave them vulnerable to ICE agents rounding them up, throwing them into detention centers, and deporting them back home.

Corrupt Nigerian politicians can wire tens of millions of dollars directly from stolen public treasury accounts into Western banks, and that money will sit safely, generate high interest, and remain completely untouched by regulatory authorities. But the very moment a poor, working-class immigrant tries to wire $500 back home to feed their aging parents, their bank account gets flagged instantly by automated compliance systems. They are forced to physically travel to the bank, bring utility bills, present official pay slips, explain the exact source of their meager income, and undergo humiliating background checks just to clear a basic transfer.

So, your argument does not prove that America possesses a superior moral or socioeconomic system designed to protect minorities, uplift the poor, and maintain the rule of law. Instead, your argument conclusively proves that America is a safe haven, financial shield, and corporate sanctuary for global kleptocrats to hide their ill-gotten wealth from their own national regulatory agencies. Pointing to the Iranian, Chinese, or Nigerian ruling class sending their children to expensive US private schools does not prove that the US protects working-class people or vulnerable minorities; it merely proves that bourgeois class privilege seamlessly transcends all geopolitical, religious, and ideological divides. American politicians continuously dismiss developing nations like Nigeria as corrupt, failing, and third-world countries, yet at the exact same time, the Western financial system eagerly absorbs the stolen wealth of that exact same corrupt ruling class.

These local Nigerian politicians buy luxury real estate in New Jersey, London, New York, Miami, and Brussels, wire millions of dollars to Western offshore accounts, and send their children to elite Ivy League institutions, entering the West on premium investor visas. Meanwhile, the working-class masses(the very people Western leaders hypocritically claim to pity and support) are continuously denied basic entry visas, subjected to border harassment, and actively deported back home. This proves beyond all reasonable doubt that the West does not act as an adversary, a moral alternative, or a threat to the corrupt ruling class they condemn; instead, they serve as the ultimate, indispensable depository for the surplus value, raw capital, and stolen wealth extracted by these comprador elites from the Global South.

[Ibrahim H Abdulkarim @ziter001]

2027 will NEVER be a repeat of 2023. The political, structural, and lived realities have shifted decisively, and they favor Peter Obi.

In 2023, Peter Obi ran essentially alone. The Labour Party had a negligible national structure: virtually no sitting governors, senators, House of Representatives seats, and almost no local government control. He still secured over 6.1 million votes (25.4%), winning 11 states plus the FCT, finishing a close third behind Tinubu’s 8.79 million (36.61%) and Atiku’s 6.98 million (29.07%), while Kwankwaso took 1.5 million on the NNPP.

That performance, built on street credibility, the Obidient movement, and personal integrity rather than patronage machines, already upended the old APC/PDP duopoly. It was the first active three-horse race.

Fast-forward to today. The landscape is transformed.

Atiku and the ADC are a shadow of PDP’s 2023 strength. In 2023, the PDP still controlled roughly 10–13 governors plus substantial senatorial, House, state assembly, and local government structures. The ADC today holds a fraction of that with far less than 10% of comparable organizational depth. A sitting governor as Vice Presidential Candidate with the largest revenue allocation in the country got only 800k more votes than Peter Obi. Ongoing litigations and uncertainty over whether the ADC even remains firmly on the 2027 ballot further weaken the platform. Atiku is no longer running on the bigger, more entrenched vehicle he had last time.

The APC enters 2027 without the Buhari-era residual goodwill, and without the same elite cohesion (no Buhari, no El-Rufai factor). Many governors have little tangible delivery beyond high-profile projects that do not translate into broad economic relief. Hardship has intensified for ordinary Nigerians through lied subsidy removal, exchange-rate unification, soaring living costs, and elevated debt servicing. Public debt has ballooned in naira terms amid heavy borrowing; inflation peaked while the naira’s depreciation and cost-of-living pressures remain acute. A repeat of the Muslim-Muslim ticket compounds the problem for a large segment of the electorate. Sentiment-driven voters from 2023 who felt the immediate pain of reforms are far less likely to repeat their choice. Contractors, businesses, and households feeling the squeeze add further headwinds.

Obi’s position is fundamentally stronger. The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), promoted by figures such as Senator Seriake Dickson, has attracted significant names absent from Labour’s 2023 effort. Peter Obi brings an unmatched personal brand, reputation for integrity, and the Obidient base. His running mate is now Rabiu Kwankwaso, who was himself a 2023 presidential contender who mobilized the Kwankwasiyya movement nationwide and delivered 1.5 million votes concentrated in the North. This creates a broader “OK” (Obi–Kwankwaso) coalition with deeper reach, more coordination, and wider elite buy-in across regions than the solitary 2023 LP ticket.

Where Obi once had almost zero governors, senators, or local chairmen and still nearly forced a runoff dynamic, he now enters with expanded networks, bigwig support, and a more solid organizational spine.

The difference is decisive: 2023 was Obi versus entrenched machines with almost no institutional backing of his own. 2027 pairs his proven vote-pulling power and movement energy with Kwankwaso’s northern machinery, a fresher party platform, and a ruling party weighed down by three years of difficult reforms and visible public discontent.

Proper planning, credible polling-unit agents, volunteer networks, transparent fundraising, and disciplined coordination will convert that advantage into victory.

Those insisting 2027 will simply replay 2023 are ignoring the data, the economic lived experience, the ticket realignments, and the organizational upgrades. The numbers, the structures, and the mood have moved.

2027 is Peter Obi’s to win.

A New Nigeria is POssible

[Mallam jabir @Mallam_jabeer]

Mr. Peter Obi has made himself available for Nigerians who truly want to rescue this country.

He didn't have to, he could choose a comfortable life away from the daily struggles of ordinary citizens but he remains because he believes Nigeria can still work.

Being a credible opposition in today's Nigeria comes with intimidation, insults, sacrifices and enormous pressure, yet he has stayed focused on offering hope and practical solutions.

If we truly desire a Nigeria that works, we must stop taking that commitment for granted.

Leaders with competence, integrity and genuine concern for the people are rare. Supporting Mr. Peter Obi is not about politics alone, it is about giving Nigeria a real chance to rebuild, restore institutions and secure a better future for generations to come.

Nigeria will be OK.