"Don't blame the West for your underdevelopment because that denies you agency..."
...Says an African man whose president is a drug dealer from Chicago currently being blackmailed by the US government using his DEA investigation records.
Lmao pls I have an information war to fight. Ain't nobody got time to be responding to people who live in an artificial world inside their own head.
We'll be out here in the real world while you continue spamming George Ayittey soundbites on Twitter.
Whenever the fuck you wake up is your individual morning.
The police have also arrested this Nigerian who made an alarming post about Abuja’s security, spreading fear among citizens. By arresting him, the police have sent the clear message that reckless users of the social media won’t go Scot free.
Let me say something that will make APC people uncomfortable and Opposition people even more uncomfortable.
If Tinubu survives 2027, Nyesom Wike becomes the most powerful unelected man in Nigeria by 2031.
Wike does not need a title to control outcomes. He never did. As FCT Minister he already controls the capital, the courts, the contracts, and the conversations that happen in rooms where real decisions are made. He has positioning.
But people are sleeping on something even more immediate. Wike is already the defacto governor of Rivers State. Fubara sits in Government House but everyone in that state knows who still holds the real levers. The courts, the local government structure, the party machinery. Wike did not leave Rivers. He just moved the office to Abuja.
And Rivers State is not just any state. It is the state that decides elections when the margins are tight and 2023 proved it. When Rivers went sideways, entire calculations collapsed. Any serious presidential candidate who does not have Rivers locked down is essentially running with one leg.
Wike has both legs planted there.
By 2031, he will have spent nearly a decade inside the federal power structure. He will know where every body is buried, who owes who, and which governor cannot sneeze without his approval. That kind of knowledge is not power but presidential, without the stress of running for it.
The real question is not whether Wike wants to be president. The real question is whether any serious candidate in 2031 can win without him. And right now, the honest answer is no.
Atiku needs the South South. Obi needs the establishment to stop fighting him. Any northern candidate needs a southern bridge. Wike is all three solutions wrapped in one very dangerous man.
The opposition spent 2023 fighting each other and handed Tinubu the presidency on a platter. If they spend 2027 doing the same, Wike will spend 2028 to 2031 collecting debts from every side. And the person who collects the most debts in Nigerian politics does not just influence the next president.
He becomes the King Maker.
This is how Nigerians should be ready to stomp down all INEC centres should they try and rig the elections in January.
It is impossible that barely 1000 people will truncate the will of 200M people and hold them captive.
@inecnigeria - if you rig, you will feel it.
In October 2024, I bought a bed for ₦180,000 (6/6, 14 inches). I just kept it at home and haven’t used it at all.
Yesterday, my younger brother called me to help him price a (6/4, 14 inches) bed.
I got there and they quoted ₦195,000. I said, “Sir, it’s 6/4 ooo.”
He replied, “Yes, I’m not deaf nah.”
I then asked for the price of my own type. He said ₦285,000 last price.
I laughed. He asked why, so I brought out the receipt showing I bought the same bed from him for ₦180,000.
He laughed and said, “You are lucky you bought it that time. With the way things are going, by God’s grace next week we will start selling it for ₦295,000–300,000.”
I was wowed.
Bro, the way things are going in this country, to start a family you will need 265 sources of income.
The fact that it took calling them out for over 3 weeks for them to grow some guts & do the needful makes it really hard for me to praise them.
Moreover, this should be a nationwide withdrawal & not just oyo state.
It's them today, who knows who's next!?
They're all just cowards
Finally, after so many days,
The Nigerian Union of Teachers in Oyo State has instructed all teachers to stay at home and parents are to keep their children away from schools while the teachers are on strike.
This is in protest of the blatant uselessness of Tinubu follow the kidnap of school kids, abduction of teachers and the beheading of one teacher.
I commend the NUT for doing this.
At my direction, following the visit of a high-level Federal Government delegation that I sent to the Esiele and Yawota communities in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, I have approved the recruitment of 1,000 forest guards in collaboration with the Oyo State Government.
A quick question to @officialABAT & the other government agencies in Nigeria.
Please, what are you people doing regarding the issue of the kidnapped school kids and teachers?
It's been over 2 week now, and you all are silent.
Isn't it sad that things has gotten this bad for us