Walterejiro

Public Policy Commentaries & Good Governance.
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[Nandi 🤍💜🤍 @pallnandi]

How you speak to your husband matters. A soft tone, gentle words, and respect will move a man faster than attitude ever will. Feminine energy is not weakness. It’s influence, grace and quiet power.

[POOJA!!! @PoojaMedia]

Raya is a blessing to Arsenal.

His clean sheets are not normal ones that are enjoyed as a result of good defense, man works for his clean sheets with unbelievable saves.

Premier League & Champions League golden gloves no be fluke.

The best GK in the world.

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

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[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

President Tinubu mocked Atiku on privatization:

No one among them (coalition leaders) is without history, the head (Atiku) was the chairman of the privatization council of Nigeria at one time. They privatized the steel industry in Delta, is it working today? They privatized Ajaokuta, is it working today? They privatized another man’s political party; that one says no.

[Mobilisingnigerians™ @mobilisingniger]

This statement from Peter Obi is exactly the kind of rhetoric that sounds deep at first glance but collapses the moment you apply even a little historical honesty.

First off, comparing anyone today to Sani Abacha and suggesting Abacha comes out looking “more democratic” is not bold it’s wildly revisionist. This was a regime defined by jailed journalists, executed activists, and zero tolerance for dissent. You don’t get to rewrite that legacy just to score political points.

Calling former pro-democracy activists “worse than Abacha” is not just an exaggeration it’s intellectual laziness. It flattens decades of struggle, sacrifices, and actual authoritarian brutality into a convenient talking point. That’s not courage; that’s selective memory.

And the irony? Obi is trying to position himself as morally consistent while casually trivializing one of Nigeria’s darkest eras. You can criticize today’s leaders without sanitizing dictatorship. In fact, doing so undermines the very “New Nigeria” he’s always preaching about.

“Power reveals character,” he says true. But so does revisionism.

[Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON, FCIArb (UK) @fkeyamo]

The David Mark’s faction of the ADC really think they can use emotional reasoning and blackmail to bluff their way out of a purely legal conundrum they brought upon themselves. Unfortunately for them, law does not admit of sentiment. Decisions are based on facts, evidence, and the interpretation of laws, rather than on sympathy, emotion or political considerations.

All those who are arguing about ‘status quo ante bellum’ are dispensing their time and energy chasing shadows and not the substance. This is because whether INEC recognises either faction for now is irrelevant: what is relevant is that there is a challenge regarding the take-over of the Party pending in court by a duly elected Deputy National Chairman. As long as that case remains in court, all the actions of either faction MAY end up being nugatory AFTER the deadline for nominations of candidates by INEC. The implication is that the ADC may end up having NO CANDIDATE for the election.

Therefore, instead of vilifying INEC, the ADC should rather thank INEC for this timely action of de-recognising both factions BEFORE the close of the window for nominating candidates. It has duly forewarned the Party of the danger ahead and opened a window for them to either find a new, risk-free platform or ask for accelerated hearing of the case in court, or politically settle the leadership question in the Party quickly.

To keep blaming imaginary opponents or INEC is purely mischievous: neither APC nor INEC prodded these grown adults and supposedly ‘experienced’ politicians to go and hijack an existing platform without sound legal advice and without properly sorting out every member of the leadership of that existing platform.

They say they will proceed with their congresses and Convention despite INEC’s decision and the ruling of the Court of Appeal. That is fine by us.

NEVER INTERRUPT YOUR OPPONENT WHEN HE IS MAKING A MISTAKE.

[Walterejiro @FejiOke]

@MUnuayan @Morris_Monye Too many ignorant and delusional people on social media

[Walterejiro @FejiOke]

@Morris_Monye To do what, exactly?

[Opeyemi Bodunde, Esq. @opeyemi_bodunde]

INEC and the ADC Leadership Dispute: Legal Obligations Under Status Quo Ante Bellum

The genesis of INEC’s position in the ADC leadership dispute traces back to the NEC meeting of 29th July 2025, which produced a new leadership led by David Mark following the purported resignation of the Ralph Nwosu-led executive.

However, Hon. Nafiu Bala Gombe, who denies resigning as Vice National Chairman, approached the Federal High Court Abuja claiming entitlement to the chairmanship. He sought to restrain both the David Mark-led executive and INEC from recognising the new leadership, filing a motion ex parte and a motion on notice for an interlocutory injunction ante bellum.

Rather than granting the ex parte application, His Lordship, Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite rightly ordered that parties be put on notice. However, instead of responding on the merits, the David Mark-led executive filed an appeal challenging that decision, an action that has significantly contributed to the present legal impasse.

In its judgment of 12th March 2026, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of David Mark led executive and made a clear preservatory order:

“Parties are hereby directed to maintain the status quo ante bellum and shall refrain from taking any step or doing any act capable of foisting a fait accompli on the court or otherwise rendering nugatory the proceedings before the trial court.”

This order admits of no ambiguity. Status quo ante bellum means a strict reversion to, and preservation of, the state of affairs as it existed before 2nd September 2025, when the suit was instituted. It is a binding command prohibiting any alteration of the res.

The Supreme Court has settled this position in A.G. Federation v. Abubakar (2007) 10 NWLR (Pt. 1041) 1, holding that parties must not take steps capable of prejudicing pending proceedings or presenting the court with a fait accompli. See also, Kotoye v. CBN (1989) 1 NWLR (Pt. 98) 419 which affirms that such orders are meant to freeze the legal and factual situation pending final determination.

Against this legal backdrop, INEC’s position is not discretionary, it is compelled by law. Faced with conflicting demands from both factions, the Commission is bound by the subsisting order of the court, which imposes a superior legal obligation.

Accordingly, INEC has taken the only lawful course: it has refused to recognise any faction of the ADC, declined to monitor or participate in party activities, and moved to remove names uploaded after the institution of the suit. Any contrary step would amount to a direct violation of a binding judgment of the Court of Appeal and a grave affront to judicial authority.

The law remains trite: no party can, by unilateral action, overreach the court. Until the Federal High Court determines the substantive dispute, any purported leadership outside the pre-dispute structure is a nullity, void, ineffectual, and dead on arrival.

© Bodunde Opeyemi, Esq.

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[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

President Bola Tinubu, despite this being his first term, has been a most consequential president.

If Nigeria must achieve its loftiest of dreams, its leaders must defy populism and the vain benefits of easy but unwholesome policies for the tough decisions that, whilst they may not look popular immediately, will set it up for glory and greatness for years to come.

Happy birthday Mr President @officialABAT . Continue to thrive and prosper 🎉🎉🎉

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

My dear fellow Nigerians,

Today, as I clock another year in the journey of life, I'm filled with joy and gratitude for the opportunity given me to serve this great nation. I want to take this moment to thank Nigerians for their messages, show of love and prayers on the occasion of my 74th birthday. I thank all our citizens for their patriotism, solidarity and support for our administration.

To those who have taken space in newspapers or paid for air time on radio and television to wish me well, I thank you immensely.

I must thank my wife, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, for her kind and loving words. I also thank Vice President Kashim Shettima for all he said about me.

Consistent with my tradition over the years to mark my birthday in line with the mood of the nation each year, I resolved to also observe this year's birthday low key.

As I mark this special day, I am reminded of the challenges we've faced since we initiated our reforms. I'm glad that our sacrifices have not been in vain as we can see some glittering light at the end of the tunnel, despite the temporary setback caused by ongoing Middle East crisis.

The credit for the positive outcomes we have achieved does not belong solely to me, our Renewed Hope team and to our government. We achieved the gains together.

As we march towards the third anniversary of our administration, it is my deepest conviction that we shall succeed in building a brighter future for our citizens and future generations.

We are determined to confront some of the challenges we face today, and with your continued support, we shall overcome.

Let us continue to work together to build a stronger, prosperous and more resilient nation that will make Nigeria the pride of Africa.

Thank you all, and happy 74th birthday to me!

Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

SEYI MAKINDE'S ERROR OF COMPARISON

Seyi Makinde: "What has Bola Ahmed Tinubu done that I haven’t done?"

Well, because His Excellency, Gov. Seyi Makinde is our yoruba brother, I will attend to that error of judgment with mercy in mind.

Dear Seyi Makinde, before you sit in the shade and compare yourself to the man who planted the tree, consider the following:

1. Build a political party first. Not inherit one. Not defect into one. Build one - from concrete and conviction, from ridicule and rejection.

Then have the stomach to remain in opposition for fifteen years - without hopping, jumping, galloping, or tossing yourself from platform to platform like a market woman searching for a better price

2. While building that party, raise a generation. Not followers - leaders. Councillors. Chairmen. Lawmakers. Governors. Ministers. A Vice President. A President. All from one root, one platform, one vision.

The tree that would pierce the heavens first deepens its roots in the earth. Jagaban did not just grow tall; he grew roots wide enough to lift others with him.

3. Use that same platform - the one you built with your own hands and your own sacrifice - to confront a sitting incumbent. Not a weak one. A fortified one. And win.

4. As it is clear you also nurse Presidential aspirations, sponsor your Presidential ambition on that same platform, without borrowing another man's structure or riding another man's momentum, and watch the nation answer yes.

Seyi Makinde is a competent Governor. Oyo is better for his presence. But competence in one room does not make a man the landlord of the whole house.

Talk is cheap - What the mouth says is never equal to what the hands have done.

It is in the doing that men are separated from boys.

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[Renewed Hope United Kingdom @RenewedHopeUK]

Right of Reply: Setting the Record Straight on Chatham House’s Misreading of President Tinubu’s UK State Visit

“He who thinks he has caught a tiger may discover, too late, that he was only clutching his own shadow.”

That is the problem with the Chatham House commentary by Dr Leena Koni Hoffmann: it reads less like rigorous policy analysis and more like a polished brief built on selective pessimism, half-acknowledged progress, and a familiar genre of elite-distance commentary that mistakes caution for depth.

In her poorly researched article on President Tinubu’s State Visit, her core claim is that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s high-profile diplomacy, including the March 2026 UK state visit, has produced little for ordinary Nigerians. That argument is not only inaccurate but also incomplete. It underplays measurable improvements in macroeconomic stability, investor confidence, external balances, sovereign creditworthiness, and concrete bilateral outcomes that are now on record. Even institutions not known for political flattery, the IMF, the World Bank, Moody’s, and S&P, have all acknowledged that Nigeria’s reform path has materially improved key fundamentals, even while warning that social pain remains real and reforms must be carried through. That is not propaganda. That is the current evidence.

The first problem with the Chatham House piece is its method. It presents diplomacy and domestic reform as though they are mutually exclusive, when in reality the Tinubu administration has been pursuing both tracks simultaneously: a difficult macroeconomic correction at home and aggressive capital, trade, and security-seeking diplomacy abroad. Serious countries do this. Foreign policy is not a fashion accessory; it is an instrument for attracting finance, deepening security partnerships, improving market access, and repositioning the state. To dismiss visible diplomacy because it has not instantly eliminated poverty is to apply a standard no serious analyst would use on any reforming economy.

Let us start with the Bretton Woods “pass marks” that the commentary tries to glide past.

First pass mark: the IMF’s explicit endorsement of macro-stabilisation gains. In its 2025 Article IV consultation, the IMF said Nigeria had implemented “major reforms” over the previous two years that “improved macroeconomic stability and enhanced resilience.” It specifically pointed to the removal of costly fuel subsidies, the ending of monetary financing of the fiscal deficit, and improvements in the functioning of the foreign exchange market. The IMF also noted that investor confidence had strengthened, that Nigeria successfully returned to the Eurobond market, and that portfolio inflows had resumed. An institution like the IMF does not hand out language like that as charity.

Second pass mark: the World Bank’s acknowledgement of positive economic momentum. In its October 2025 Nigeria Development Update, the World Bank said Nigeria had made “notable progress in stabilising its economy through bold reforms in fiscal, monetary, and trade policy.” It reported that the economy grew 3.9% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, up from 3.5% a year earlier, and that the external position strengthened, with reserves above $42 billion and the current-account surplus at 6.1% of GDP. The Bank added that these gains will soon translate into improved living standards.

Third pass mark: sovereign ratings agencies have moved in Nigeria’s favour. Moody’s upgraded Nigeria in May 2025 from Caa1 to B3, citing better external and fiscal positions and stronger policy credibility. In November 2025, S&P revised Nigeria’s outlook to positive from stable, saying improved confidence and gains in oil production should support stronger medium-term growth. Again, ratings agencies are not sentimental observers; they respond to fiscal metrics, external balances, market liquidity, and reform credibility.

Fourth pass mark: measurable macro indicators have improved. Nigeria’s real GDP grew 4.07% year-on-year in Q4 2025, and full-year 2025 growth rose to 3.87%, up from 3.38% in 2024, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Net foreign-exchange reserves surged to $34.8 billion by the end of 2025, from just $3.99 billion two years earlier, while gross reserves rose to $50.45 billion by February 2026, according to the Central Bank and Reuters reporting. Inflation, while still painful and a burden on households, eased to 15.06% in February 2026, the eleventh straight month of deceleration, Reuters reported, citing official data. None of this means the hardship is over. It does mean the economy is no longer in the same place it was.

That is the key point the Chatham House article obscures: a reform can be painful and still be necessary; a country can be under strain and still be improving. The choice in 2023 was not between painless prosperity and disciplined reform. It was between continuing a distortion-ridden system, fuel subsidies bleeding public finances, multiple exchange rates encouraging arbitrage, central bank opacity, dwindling confidence, or confronting those distortions and paying the political price. Tinubu chose the latter. The international institutions watching Nigeria most closely have said, in substance, that the correction has begun to repair the macro framework.

The Chatham House commentary also tries to concede good news while draining it of significance. It mentions falling inflation, a stabilising naira, Nigeria’s removal from the FATF grey list, and a positive S&P outlook, then quickly pivots to imply these are somehow cosmetic. That is analytically weak. Falling inflation matters. Improved FX market functioning matters. Better sovereign ratings matter because they affect borrowing costs, investor confidence, and access to capital. Removal from a financial watchlist regime matters because it reduces reputational frictions for banks, investors, and counterparties. These are not decorations. They are the plumbing of economic recovery.

On diplomacy specifically, the argument that Tinubu’s foreign engagements have not produced “concrete benefits” has already been overtaken by events. During the March 2026 UK state visit, Nigeria and the United Kingdom signed a £746 million export finance agreement to refurbish the Lagos Port Complex and Tin Can Island Port Complex. Reuters reported that the deal will be guaranteed by UK Export Finance and coordinated by Citibank. Ports are not ceremonial ornaments. They are logistics arteries. Better port infrastructure reduces delays, improves throughput, lowers trade friction, and strengthens Nigeria’s competitiveness. That is a concrete benefit.

The visit also sat atop a broader architecture already in place: the Enhanced Trade and Investment Partnership and the Nigeria-UK Strategic Partnership. Those frameworks are not magic wands, but they are the kind of structured bilateral instruments through which capital, expertise, procurement, and market opportunities actually move. It is odd for a policy commentator to acknowledge these channels and then write as though diplomacy is merely a photo-op. That reduces statecraft to theatre when the record shows transaction as well as symbolism.

There is another flaw in Lenna’s commentary: it leans heavily on the familiar line that because many Nigerians are still hurting, the reform agenda has not delivered. That sets up a false binary. Nigeria can be undergoing a macroeconomic repair that international institutions recognise, while many households are still suffering from the lagged effects of subsidy removal, exchange-rate adjustment, food inflation, and weak safety nets. In fact, that is exactly what the IMF and World Bank have both said: reforms have improved stability, but the gains must now be brought home more forcefully through lower inflation, stronger social protection, and more inclusive growth. That is a nuanced position. Chatham House, by contrast, packages that nuance into a one-directional indictment.

In the oil sector, there are also signs of recovery that matter. The Financial Times reported this week that Nigeria’s oil production rebounded to about 1.5 million barrels per day in 2025, away from the sub-1-million-barrel levels seen earlier, and that reforms, regulatory changes, and renewed investor interest helped boost momentum. Reported upstream investment commitments of $5.3 billion affirm that this is not simply a diplomatic mirage. The sector still faces a few challenges, such as sabotage, theft, governance, and financing, but the direction of travel is not a flat line as critics imply.

To be fair, the country faces challenges, like every other country. Those are real. But acknowledging those facts does not rescue an analysis that minimises every sign of progress and treats every gain as either delayed, cosmetic, or politically suspect. That style of writing may pass for think-tank severity, but too often it slips into what can only be called gossip journalism in policy clothing: broad atmospherics, selective facts, and conclusions that seem emotionally pre-decided.

That is why the piece feels less like field-grounded analysis and more like a room-temperature recycling of familiar elite talking points: Tinubu travels too much; diplomacy is mostly optics; reforms are IMF-style pain without dividend; ordinary people see nothing. A serious investigator would ask harder questions in both directions. What do the IMF, World Bank, Moody’s, S&P, and market data now show? How do port-finance deals, security agreements, trade frameworks, and improved reserves alter Nigeria’s medium-term capacity? What were the alternatives to the reforms? What would continued subsidy distortion and FX fragmentation have cost by 2026? Those questions are largely absent.

Ultimately, this is perhaps the most significant shortcoming of the Chatham House note: not its critical perspective, but that some sections may lack depth relative to their certainty.

A better-researched appraisal would have said this: Tinubu’s administration has imposed politically costly reforms that are now yielding visible macroeconomic improvements; the benefits are not yet broad enough for ordinary Nigerians; the next test is whether stability can be converted into faster job-rich growth, lower living costs, and better security. That would have been serious. Instead, readers got a commentary that nods at the evidence, then writes as though it barely matters.

So yes, Dr Hoffmann should do more homework, more first-hand reporting, more on-the-ground texture, more respect for contradictory evidence, and less reliance on recycled defeatism. Nigeria’s story under the Renewed Hope administration is not one of a finished victory; no honest person should claim that. But neither is it the barren failure her piece strains to suggest. The record now contains clear and verifiable achievements: stronger growth, softer inflation, rebuilt reserves, improved sovereign ratings, restored investor confidence, resumed market access, oil-sector momentum, and concrete outcomes from diplomacy, including the UK port-finance deal.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is still being tested, but it is not drifting. It is reforming, recalibrating, and reintroducing Nigeria to the world as a serious state willing to take hard decisions. And the evidence increasingly shows that the country’s foreign engagements are not empty travelogues. Like the March 2026 UK state visit, they are yielding results, expanding partnerships, and raising Nigeria’s profile on the global stage. President Tinubu will continue to make Nigeria proud internationally, and the enduring task now is to ensure those global wins translate into prosperity, security, and confidence at home.

Hon. Tosin Olayinka, LL.B (Hons), B.L, LLM (London)
Programme Director,
Renewed Hope Global
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[Walterejiro @FejiOke]

@egi_nupe Welcome back from exploring PitObi's mind. I hope you came back whole?

[Emir of Port-Harcourt @WOkene]

Tell us you want an Ibo president in 2027, we will understand, but if you bring that market to market economist under the disguise of competence cum better Nigeria, we will treat you as a Drunk under the influence of Hero.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

THE NEW HEROES OF CHANGE

1. David Mark:

Military Governor of Niger State: 1984 - 1986
Senator (Benue South): 1999 - 2019
President of the Senate: 2007 - 2015

Most memorable Achievement: Threatening to shoot MKO Abiola, the adjudged winner of the annuled 1993 elections.

We have him to thank - with both hands raised and heads bowed - for his profound wisdom in disrupting that election and overturning the people's mandate. We were not ripe for democracy anyway. A man who knows when a people are unready is not a villain - he is simply a gardener with patience we did not deserve.

2. Rauf Aregbesola:

Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure: 1999 - 2007
Governor of Osun State: 2010 - 2018
Minister of Interior: 2019 - 2023

Most Memorable Achievement:
Consistently paying civil servants half-salary for his entire 8-year reign as Governor of Osun State and his unforgettable enthusiasm in declaring public holidays.

The man who gives you half a fish is still teaching you to be grateful. Such a thoughtful leader he is indeed. He knows, as the sages knew before him, that the love of money is the root of all evil. And so, with brilliant consideration and the compassion of a saint, he ensured the people had less of it.

When the stomach is empty, the heart is pure. The less money the people have, the more distant they will be to evil. A thoughtful leader I stan - deeply, sincerely, and with a straight face.

3. Peter Obi:

Trusted henchman for the military dictator and authoritarian General Sani Abacha.
Governor of Anambra State: 2006 - 2014
Special Adviser to the President on Finance (served under President Goodluck Jonathan until May 2015

Most Memorable Achievement:
Warehousing state funds in his private bank and investing heavily in a beer producing factory.

We must all be humble enough to applaud his intelligence and sincerity of purpose. Had he constructed roads, those roads would today be riddled with potholes, demanding fresh billions. Had he built schools or hospitals, those structures would be aging, crumbling, and screaming for reinvestment.

He had the foresight - the rare, selfless foresight - to save the state the burden of future pain. And for the beer parlour? Have you ever seen a sad drunk man? Peter Obi did not just govern a state - he administered therapy to an entire people.

4. Atiku Abubakar:

Vice - President: 1999 - 2007
Presidential candidate: 1993, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023

Most Memorable Achievement:
Gifting national assets to his friends and cronies.

Now, people misunderstand this gentleman and brand him a waster - but the stranger who has not tasted the soup calls it poison. They are the ones mistaken. Nigeria's assets belong to Nigerians. Atiku's friends and lovers are also Nigerians.

So tell me, where precisely is the crime in giving Nigerian assets back to Nigerians? He is not a looter - he is a redistributor. A patriot of the highest, most creative order.

OUR NEW HEROES

Beloved, above is the brief but illuminating profile of those who have now gathered in the opposition as our new Messiahs - our fresh prophets, robed in the garments of change, smelling faintly of the same old corridors.

The same dog that bit you yesterday does not become your guard simply because it now wags its tail. It will not matter that they have lived and feasted and been deeply, profitably invested in the very rot they now stand before us to protest against. Whenever one wakes is one's morning - even if the sun is already setting.

It will not matter that they failed in previous assignments of far lesser significance. The Bible itself preaches rebirth - even the prodigal son found a fatted calf waiting at the gate. And who are we to say that even the devil may not, upon a day, dust his wings and stand again beside the Almighty as the archangel?

The masquerade that returned from the forest wearing new raffia still dances the same old steps.

Have I left anyone out?

Good Evening Severally.

[Julius J. Adebayo @HeIsJayjam]

If this is not your mood ahead of 2027 then, you're on the losing side

Join the moving train

[Walterejiro @FejiOke]

@egi_nupe Na who optic help, especially talking about security?