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[Mischief🌚 @Kanuemma16]

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[Buchi Laba @Buchi_Laba]

I see your tags but I cannot join this movement.
For certain reasons. I want the club to win but I’m a Journalist at the end of the day.

[Mischief🌚 @Kanuemma16]

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[Remi Adekoya @RemiAdekoya1]

Wike is performing a crucial public service here.

Too many Nigerians seem to live in denial of what Nigerian politics truly is and what it has turned Nigeria into. Of course, people know about the corruption et al but too many downplay it.

Some will argue that "There is corruption everywhere, not just in Nigeria."

Yet somehow those "everywheres" that are mentioned often manage to be multi-trillion dollar economies with systems that seem to work for their everyday citizens. Countries Nigerians often want to emigrate to. So clearly the corruption in those places is not exactly the same thing as the corruption in Nigeria.

Then there are those who resort to complicationist arguments. They'll say "Yes, there's corruption in Nigeria but things are much more complex than that. Nigeria is a very complex country you know." They say this like it's a very clever, deep thing to say. Something only the wise and informed would truly understand.

But which country on earth is not "complex"? Is it multiracial America that is not "complex"? Is it China, a country of 1.4 billion people, that is not "complex"? India? Brazil? Indonesia with its 1340 ethnic groups? Is it Britan that has people from all over the world living in its borders that is not "complex"? Or Canada that is ten times the area size of Nigeria?

The complicationist argument is ultimately a denialist argument. Meant to soothe the Nigerian mind that things are not that bad and corrupt, all Nigeria's "complexities" considered.

Though Nigerians know very well their politicians are crooks, many don't want to face up to the reality of just how bad things are. Psychologically, I get this. Facing that reality can be very depressing, especially if you live in Nigeria. I don't, so it's much easier for me.

If you live in Nigeria, it's more comforting to believe things can't be that bad. Surely, there are still some institutions we can count on; hence many pinned their hopes on Nigeria's election tribunals and the Supreme Court. But the reality proved to be what it is.

Nigerian politicians usually enable this denialism by always refuting any wrongdoing and allegations of corruption.

Now Wike is informing the Nigerian public frankly about how Nigerian politics works. This is one of the reasons Northern power brokers in PDP didn't want him to get that presidential ticket. Not because they don't do what he does, but because they believe in doing it quietly, out of the public eye. Maintaining some level of plausible deniability.

Steal with tact, blow grammer to cover it (as Fela used to say), talk about patriotism, keeping Nigeria one etc. The masses need to be kept bamboozled. Oppress them while telling them you're working for them, that you want to make Nigeria great; many will be foolish enough to believe you. That's what the Nigerian political elite believes and the way they normally operate.

Wike is blowing all that up. Nigeria may be a complex country but there is nothing terribly complex about its politics. It is as Wike describes it:

1) Get into power.

2) Steal as much "government money" as you can.

3) Use that money to build your "structures", i.e, to buy the loyalty of various actors either for the short-medium or long-term. This will depend on how much you pay and how much others are offering them. Nigerian politics is a marketplace; people are always buying, selling and pricing. So you have to keep up, Wike knows this.

4) Make sure you keep getting access to "government" money even after you've left office or you lose relevance. Again, Wike is right, this is how it works.

Why I think this is a positive development in the long run is that Wike has now made it impossible for anyone to continue to live in denialism of how the system works. No one can pretend they don't know or that it can't be that bad.

Question now is what to do? I don't know. I'm in a comfortable safe space abroad, I'd be a hypocrite to pontificate from here on what people in 🇳🇬 should do. Only those on the ground can decide this.

All that comes to my mind now are the words of James Baldwin: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

[Mischief🌚 @Kanuemma16]

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To celebrate the launch of $MEME (@Memecoin), 9 Golden Tickets will be (literally) airdropped at the AHOY PARTY at FAYE HK at ~11PM HKT today (Nov 3).

If you are coming to our AHOY PARTY tonight, get ready!

Did we say that Hide The Pain Harold (@painharold) will be there too?

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[Mischief🌚 @Kanuemma16]

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