Imagine you were involved in an accident. One doctor consoles you, says โsorry,โ โpele,โ and tells you to stay strong. Another doctor immediately stops the bleeding, treats the injuries, administers medication, and performs surgery if necessary. Which doctor is actually saving your life? Compassion matters, but competence and decisive action save lives.
The same principle applies to governance.
What Obi is doing in that video is performative politics. Nations are not built on speeches, sympathy, or symbolic gestures. They are built through institutions, laws, structural reforms, and policies that continue to deliver results long after a leader leaves office. Peter Obi did none of this as Governor.
President Tinubuโs administration has pursued several structural reforms, including:
โ Removal of the fuel subsidy, ending a decades-long fiscal burden that consumed trillions of naira annually.
โ Unification of the foreign exchange market to reduce distortions and multiple exchange rates.
โ The enactment of the Electricity Act, allowing states to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity independently of the federal government.
โ Student loan reforms to expand access to higher education.
โ Comprehensive tax reform proposals aimed at broadening the tax base, simplifying administration, and improving revenue generation.
โ Increased fiscal autonomy and reforms designed to attract investment into key sectors.
These reforms are painful and remain debated, but they are structural changes that will shape Nigeriaโs economy for decades if sustained.
Unfortunately, most naive Nigerian youths donโt value leadership that leads with structure and systems because you prefer politics driven by emotional appeal rather than institutional change. Sustainable national development is built on structures that outlive politicians not on performances that dominate news cycles.
Why would any sane Nigerian leave President Tinubu, who is a proven builder, to vote for someone saving money meant for development in banks he's affiliated with?
This guy finish talk ๐๐พ
Fuji Garbage 1988 was not just an album. It was a statement. Barrister walked into the studio and redefined what Fuji could sound like. The energy, the percussion, the goated dance moves in the video ๐คฃ. Pure Yoruba excellence on full display. That album has not aged.
Listen to me, no language in Nigeria can reproduce this.
The closest was Ekwueme, the singer even had to complete the rest of the song in English.
This song is trending and other ethnic groups are asking what it means.
We have everything as Yorรนbรก people to survive for the next 1,000 years.
We only need conservatives as the majority, Yorรนbรก will be unstoppable.
We have made outstanding progress so far, the reawakening is getting bigger daily.
We will not stop until every Yorรนbรก person understand other Nigerians need them to survive and not the other way round.
I am Bayo sometimes Bilisi
The Informal sector accounts for over 90% of employed Nigerians. Meaning of every 10 Nigerian working today, 9 of them are in the informal sector.
Our labour force estimates employed Nigerians to be about 80 million Nigerians. And of those, over 71 million earn their livelihood in the informal sector. They are the heartbeat of the streets - the resilient souls frying akara, roasting bole, turning kulikuli, the masterful artisans, and the tireless transport workers, etc.
โDo you still think the First Lady was blind to reality for considering an economy that accommodates 71 million Nigerian working adults? Or is your intellectual lens simply too narrow to capture this towering truth?
This same Informal Sector moves mountains, contributing over 50% of Nigeriaโs GDP. The collective economic force of the akara sellers, danfo drivers, and roadside carpenters matches the heavyweight worth of your Dangotes, Otedolas, and Elumelus. The informal sector contribute as much as the banks, insurance companies, Flutterwave, etc to the productive capital of this nation.
Do you honestly suggest an economic engine driving half of our GDP is useless and unworthy of empowerment? Or are you just being too mischievous to admit the uncomfortable fact?
As much as we may want to progress in delusion on X that we are all billionaires, the data serves a sobering cup of reality.
Between 10โ15% of our working population earn no income.
โAbout 66% earn below โฆ50,000.
โ85.4% earn below โฆ100,000.
Yet, you sit in comfort and tweet that a โฆ50K โ โฆ100K grant - not a loan, but free capital - is an "insult" to Nigerians. It appears you are the actual insult to our national conversation.
And these harsh climates, if you must know, are not recent storms conjured by this administration; they have always been our lived realities. Have you forgotten so soon? There was a time in this very country when rice was a sacred luxury, reserved only for Sundays and festive celebrations.
Ohok! I get your arguments!
We are in the 21st century, and we should be speaking the language of Silicon Valley - AI, coding, programming, and space exploration - not soiling our hands in the "primitive" mixture of Akara and Kulikuli...
โIn one breath, we crucify our leaders for being too elitist, accusing them of only serving the privileged. Yet, in the very next breath, we, the followers, commit the exact same sin, speaking in condescending tone about the masses.
Now, let me hold up a mirror to show you just how far detached from reality you truly are...
About 70 Million Nigerians have no formal education - They cannot code or consult Chatgpt. Should they be excommunicated as citizens because they didn't attend school?
โA responsible government builds a roof wide enough to cover both the privileged and the less privileged. A sensitive leader constructs an ecosystem that favors not just the wealthy few, but, in fact, lifts up the vulnerable many.
That Akara woman said she only needed N12,000 to establish her Akara business and makes an average of N5,000 daily profit. That is about N150,000 every month. Ask your suit and tie friend if he makes as much. But you think they should be quarantined in obscurity just because they lack corporate sophistication and do not speak the Queen's English.
You are not bright.
Good Evening Severally...
This young man took time to lambast the first speaker on his manners and equally lectured him.
We need intelligent youths in leadership in Nigeria and not Obidients disciples.
For years, Daddy G.O stayed away from politics and the toxic intrigues of governance, choosing strictly to tend to his ministerial assignment.
Yet, children of defective placentas and cancerous uteri - those whose umbilical cords were buried in malice - never ceased to exhibit their acute poverty of home training.
And now, the patriach of faith had come out to acknowledge the efforts of the government in tackling insecurity, inspired hope in the people that the days of mourning are close to an end and spoke optimism and positivity.
Ekukes - you mongrels of mischief - what will you do now that you havenโt already exhausted from your shallow well of malice?
Boycott the church? The Ocean does not miss a drop of rain.
Slander his calling on your struggling platforms? The wind cannot soil the sky, no matter how hard it blows.
Or blackmail his holy mountain - The Redemption Camp. Try pulling down a rock with a cobweb.
Dear Nattering Nitwits, Over to you. Kindly do your absolute worst.
You cannot block the light of a city set upon a hill with the smoke of your petty envy.