THIS PATRIOTIC ODUDWA ALFA FROM ILORIN HAS SAID IT ALL, FOR US TO RESCUE OURSELVES AS A NATION WE ALL NEED TO RESCUE ILORIN AND THE ENTIRE 12 LSs THERE AND BEYOND JEBBA AND OKUN LANDS IN KOGI TOO. WE CALL ON ALL ODUDUWA PATRIOTS TO START PROVIDING MEANS TO ACHIEVE THIS.
The uproar proves a harsh truth: ethnic alignment at the top doesn't guarantee safety on the ground. Kinship means nothing without political will.
Is the fierce criticism of Tinubu justified, or is this crisis too deep for ethnic sentiment?
Yoruba critics feel Tinubu is trapped in a web of national political appeasement, treating a bleeding homeland with slow, bureaucratic medicine. History shows that a president's toughest critics are always his own kinsmen when the home front is left to burn.
Instead, reality has delivered a psychological blow. Despite a Yoruba President and indigenous security chiefs, Southwestern kidnappings are escalating. Critics contrast this with OBJ’s era (1999-2007), when a Yoruba president used crushing, uncompromising military force.
When Tinubu took power, he dismantled that Northern monopoly, appointing Yoruba generals to key defense portfolios. The expectation back home was absolute: an impenetrable, locally aligned security wall that would finally flush out forest-dwelling kidnappers.
Under Buhari, the Southwest held a bitter consensus: the "pampered" treatment of armed herdsmen was fueled by a Northern-dominated military apparatus. The region felt defenseless, sparking the bloody Igangan clashes and forcing the urgent creation of the Amotekun corps.
This isn't new. The warning signs flashed for a decade. We watched armed herdsmen invade Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s Abeokuta home, and elder statesman Chief Olu Falae kidnapped from his Akure farm. Today, highways like Akure-Ilesha and Ibadan-Ife remain high-risk terror zones.
Southwest is bleeding, the irony is suffocating. Under Buhari, the Yoruba elite screamed as Northern security chiefs ran Nigeria while bandits overran Southern forests. Today, Tinubu—a Yoruba son—has a Southwest security high command, yet the terror has only intensified. Why? 👇
What happened at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital yesterday is a national disgrace and must not be treated lightly!
Calling on @officialEFCC to promote lawful conduct; to publicly call the officers involved in the act to order, @Fmohnigeria@nighealthwatch to protect our healthcare system, and the presidency @NGRPresident and @NGRSenate to look into this, so this doesn’t happen to any healthcare worker again.
@UN@WHO@WHONigeria@UNICEF_Nigeria
Justice must prevail. Say NO TO VIOLENCE AGAINST MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. Enough is Enough.
The young people in our @ObamaFoundation Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica.
This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.